» This is an exciting partnership with the Bay Area Video Coalition to build a new reporting tool making it drag-and-drop simple for non-profits to publish their impact metrics online. It will be free for non-profits, open source, and launches this year. The project was also recently featured in Filmmaker Magazine and presented at SXSW Interactive 2011.

» With the start of 2011, Google reached out to small business around the world asking what they wished for in the new year. In partnership with the Marketing Team, I visualized the resulting submissions and created three infographics capturing the needs and desires of these dedicated and passionate folk. The results were published on the Official Google Blog to more than three million views.

» I partnered with Mikhael Felker to launch ShortcutGuide listing and visualizing the keyboard shortcuts of popular software products. User-selected shortcuts are overlayed on a virtual keyboard (with dynamic QWERTY and DVORAK layout options). Though now defunct, the site grew in popularity over the time it existed and was even featured on the popular Lifehacker productivity blog.

» As a NSF-funded researcher at Brown, I built a new tool showing the network of relationships that exist within math texts. Instead of learning a subject in the traditional approach of front cover to back cover, a student can instead start with a topic of their own interest (e.g., biology) and the system then displays all the related subject matter from the text. This was a prototype design for a non-linear and passion-first approach to learning.

» Working with Thomas Banchoff of the Math Department at Brown, I came in for a summer and upgraded the user interface of his innovative courseware tool which enables interactive and community-based online learning. Coursework arrives complete with 3D geometric models and classroom-driven discussion boards. The work is currently used across multiple universities today.