Category Archives: Web

Free Geek

By Sam PL | Published: February 8, 2010
For the past few months I’ve been doing some web work for Free Geek, a non-profit in downtown Portland that refurbishes, donates, and recycles computers and electronics.  They’re in the middle of web tweaking–preparing for a redesign (as you can see, their current site needs some improvement)–and wanted help addressing usability issues, doing some basic [...]
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Libelo Online Learning Platform

By Sam PL | Published: November 29, 2009
For the Capstone project of my Bachelor of Philosophy degree, I created a proposal for an open learning materials site, complete with preliminary sketches, wireframes, visual design, and even some usability testing. Download the pdf or read the online version below…
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The LION 90.7fm Online

By Sam PL | Published: August 20, 2009
I created the site of the The LION 90.7fm, the Penn State student radio station, taking the site off of a Wordpress backend that was too simple for the needs of such a large organization and moving to a customized Drupal CMS installation.  The new site provides one place for intra-station communication, playlist posting, and public [...]
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wConnect Facebook Application

By Sam PL | Published: September 1, 2008
During the summer of 2008 I worked with in the Computer Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab at PSU’s School of IST.  My work focused on developing a facebook application for wConnect, a social alliance of women in information technology headed by Mary Beth Rosson, using PHP and the Facebook API. The project required careful handling of [...]
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Jackie Munro Online Portfolio

By Sam PL | Published: February 4, 2008
I created a portfolio site for Jackie Munro, a photography student at NYU. She wanted a simple, static, very minimalist site with specific font and color requirements, an image viewer, embedded quicktime video, and some playful navigation elements. This second iteration incorporates a new sans serif typeface and a stark white & dark grey color [...]
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Dawson’s Chess

By Sam PL | Published: February 2, 2008
I designed a new, dark visual interface for the ultra-simple Dawson’s Chess game. See if you can beat the computer–it’s harder than it looks. The code for the game is borrowed from Thomas Feguson, a professor of mathematics at UCLA. You can view the original version at his website here. Skills: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Photoshop
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The Action Sports Chart Challenge

By Sam PL | Published: January 31, 2008
Using skis on a hill covered in snow is ’skiing’, but riding a board on the same hill is ’snowboarding’. Pulling that board behind a boat on a lake is ‘wakeboarding’, but if you switch back to skis, you’re ‘waterskiing’. Interesting… So as an information visualization exercise, I made a chart of every extreme sport I [...]
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Radio Embeddable Player Interface

By Sam PL | Published: January 31, 2008
I made some graphics for an embeddable flash player for The LION 90.7fm.  See them action (or embed them!) on the LION’s website here.
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