1. Glance each summary below
2. Open linked designs and mockups
3. Profit!
4. I will have additional drawings and mockups in person
This is the Design Portfolio for Bryan Clark. If you were looking for my blog or my linked[in] profile you better get moving.
Mugshot is a web service that aggregates content from a number of different sources into a single place on the web for you and your friends to keep up with each other.
I handled Facilitation of Brainstorm Sessions, Ideation, Focus Groups, In Home User Observation, Coordination with external Design Consultancy, Prototyping, and Web Development
One Laptop per Child aims to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
I brainstormed the initial UI design, coordinated with Design Consultants and other stake holders inside the organization. Many of the visual mockups of interaction as well as look & feel were created through collaboration with the Visual Designer.
A PDF viewer started by a small group in the winter of 2004. At the time there were several other PDF, PS, and other document viewers in the Linux Desktop landscape.
I did the competitive research for Evince, looking at applications like Preview, Acrobat Reader, and existing Linux PDF / PS Viewers. Combining the competitive research with user research to learn about what people really wanted from a Document Viewer I created designs and prototypes of the early Evince elements; following it's progress to present day.
Network Manager handles wireless and wired connections in any of today's modern Linux Desktops. The system was specifically designed without (home or work) profiles adapting to users as they used wireless and wired networks.
I performed some quick and simple user research for the initial prototypes of Network Manager. I was also responsible for the research, designs, and prototypes of all later versions.
When I was young and foot loose I thought my designs could be imparted on people with an iron fist.
I was wrong. I did the initial research, sketches, and designs for the Background Channels system but because I didn't develop the support of the community it failed fairly quickly. Many people really liked the idea, but I didn't enlist the proper (difficult) maintainers support and caused a conflict that wasn't really necessary. Even if I felt like I didn't do anything wrong, because I didn't enlist the right people in the right way my designs failed. sigh...