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  • Senior Web Graphics and User Interface Designer

    Press Ganey
    • Work with Project Owner and Manager to create direction of web application products
    • Build and refine user experiences across several web application initiatives
    • Develop web-based (SCSS/HTML/JS/Ruby) application front-ends for demonstration and development internally, and externally for clients and future customers
    • Design solutions for communicating highly complex data in pleasant and understandable ways
    • Create all graphical assets for applications
    • Assist other remote software teams with application designs and direction
  • User Experience Designer

    Educational Policy Improvement Center
    • Chief on site front-end UI and UX resource
    • Build and maintain user flows, interactions, and outcomes from initial sketches to interactive HTML/CSS/JS/PHP mock-ups, to final polished products
    • Support back-end development team merging visual layer with 
business code PHP/Javascript layer
    • Build and work with Content Management Systems
    • Advise research team in planning applications and projects for state-wide clients
    • In charge of video production and online distribution
  • Designer And Front-End Developer

    InstantAction, Garage Games
    • Primary team asset for integrating CSS/HTML/JS front-end UI/UX across complex javascript and PHP Zend Framework browser based game platform application
    • Worked with fast-paced web development and design teams creating project concepts, to final live web applications serving more than 2 million registered users
    • Integrated web application into Facebook
    • Conceptualized user experience of site features as well as informed project direction of future network plans
  • Web Designer And Developer

    BowTech
    • Incorporated cutting-edge web technology into existing online content to build on the online presence of a revolutionary company
    • Oversaw and produced five major websites, two related online stores, and a consumer level online store
    • Implemented solutions to help bridge the gap between the web and non-technical users through powerful and user-friendly content management systems
    • Build and work with Content Management Systems
    • Advised marketing department on current web trends, ideas, and new technologies
  • Web Designer And Developer

    Pure Blue
    • Created website designs, coded CSS and XHTML for diverse range of clients, including world relief organizations and home security businesses
    • Formatted PDF proposals for major corporations including Microsoft and Corbis
    • Worked directly with clients to ensure seamless communication as I consistently exceeded requirements and met deadlines, often with extremely quick turnaround times

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Just who are we dealing with here?

Greetings! My name is Andrew Colclough. Professionally I am a designer and front-end UI/UX developer. On the side I enjoy doing game artwork and UI design with some of my developer friends.

I love my work because to me it's the creative equivallent of Legos for adults.

As you've likely guessed, I'm a total nerd at heart, so Internet software is the perfect niche for me. I love to code, I love to draw, and I love to create experiences which are as beautiful, as they are useful.

On the personal side, I love my wife and my family, grace, economics, liberty, football, video games, and have a special appreciation for "epic power-metal."

Skills and Experience

I have been working as a designer and front-end developer since 2005. Take a look at my resume to learn about my work experience. While there isn't an aspect of web technology that doesn't interest me, my key strengths are in graphic creation and front-end UI/UX interraction development.

As far as tools goes, I'm all about Photoshop, CSS, Compass Framework, SCSS, HTML, HAML, Jquery, a bit of Ruby, and a whole legion of rapid prototyping tools. Additionally, I like to bust out pen and paper and some copic markers to quickly throw down ideas.

About This Site

I created this site to be fun and interesting to look at, and the design is obviously inspired by game UI. Feel free to poke around and get a feel for my design work. I have some exciting plans moving forward, so what you see here is really just the begining. I hope you enjoy it!

If you're curious, here is what my previous site design looked like:

Tech Props

  • This site is built on Ruhoh. A killer blog aware static site tool built by Jade Dominguez.
  • Themes and design make use of Twitter Bootstrap.
  • JQuery and JqueryUI. Seriously - what else dominates this much?
  • Dribbble gallery brought to you buy Half Court Shot. A 1337 bit of javeascript composed by Rogie King and Mediahack.
  • Until more browsers support styling scrollbars, I'm using a great custom scrollbar js by Manos
  • My image gallery uses the slick View.js by Rogie King.

Shout-Outs and Thanks Go To

  • Brian Warren
  • David Queener
  • Jason Frasier
  • Marcin Manek
  • Mark McCoy
  • Mediahack
  • Nate Fema
  • Nathan Ostgaurd
  • Rogie King
  • Sean Sullivan
  • 3 Step Setup Mobile UI Concept A concept for a quick application setup process that could work on a mobile platform. The content is junk data because I don't want to give away anything secret. Jump to the blow-up to see more details of this design.
  • Print Report A design for a printable report generated by a hospital performance web application I helped build at Press Ganey. Click to view an alternate design.
  • Practice Performer One of the applications that I worked on at Press Ganey was called Practice Performer. I built an entire working web based prototype of the application front-end to generate excitement among clients and to provide clear direction for our development team.
  • InstantAction 2.0 The InstantAction 2.0 game platform was built to integrate the best features of the web - with a game console experince. I was part of the highly talented team at Garage Games that designed and created the initial working prototype of this platform.
  • PlayLegions.com PlayLegions.com was a single game spin-off site designed to test some experimental 2.0 aspects of the InstantAction browser-based game console system we developed at Garage Games. I worked with our talented team to build this site's front-end.
  • PlayLegions Facebook At Garage Games we built an application that used the InstantAction plugin to load a time-trial version of our FPS Legions directly into Facebook. I believe it was the first truely 3D game integrated into the Facebook platform.
  • College and Career Ready This is a simple informative website I designed while I worked at EPIC (Educational Policy Improvement Center) to promote the latest book by professor David Conley.
  • Kids Logo This is an illustration I did for a kids group logo. It was clearly influenced by the great Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), who's superb work inspired me as a child. Click to view the main summer variation.
  • Wheat Field Illustration A digital painting for the backdrop to a women's ministry logo.
  • BowTech Web Design A sampling of the web design work that I did while I worked for BowTech.
  • Dwarven Sketches A quick piece of concept artwork I whipped together for a friend's rogue-like game project. Click for a couple other related sketches.
  • Minimal Portfolio Design Originally I was planning to design this site in a minimalist fashion. I really liked the design I came up with, but it just didn't feel like me. Minimalism is what I strive for in application design, but for my personal site I just wanted to do something more illustrative and playful.
  • Rogue-Like Game Artwork Illustrated for a friend's game. Click to view various other artwork from this project.

© Andrew Colclough 2012 props to ruhoh and Twitter Bootstrap

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