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PowerTicker
December 1998 to present
PowerTicker is a specialized financial web browser
developed by Galleon Software. I participate in
the ongoing development and testing of all Galleon
Software products, concentrating on improving
the aesthetics and usability of the interface.
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We’ve released the product for both Windows
and Macintosh users. Above is a typical stock
report which I recently redesigned in accordance
with the new Mac OS standards. To the left are
the latest Mac OS X icons.
For PowerTicker, I also created a retail package
containing a cross-platform hybrid CD together
with a reference card to step new users through
the installation process, introduce some basic
PowerTicker functions, and guide them to the PDF
manual included
on the disk.
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 eMerge
December 1996 to present
eMerge is a bulk e-mail merge application developed by Galleon
Software. I designed this CD-sized manual in June 1997 to
double as the product’s retail package. The back flap includes
a cut-out that can hold either a diskette or a CD. The product
name is embossed to match the eMerge
product logo. The CD label was redesigned in July 1999
to match our new Customerize
your e-mail campaign.
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FirstClass applications
July 1994 to October 1996
At SoftArc, my department was responsible for
the graphical elements of the applications the
company developed, including such things as icons,
forms, and splash screens.
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In order to research new products and features,
we also became involved in the testing process
and the ongoing improvement of the interface.
Above is a sample of the splash screens I developed
to identify a series of applications that acted
as gateways between FirstClass and other, often
proprietary, e-mail systems. In order to avoid
copyright infringement and the potential confusion
between applications that essentially did the
same thing, I avoided using icons and graphics
that identified the systems involved, and since
the FirstClass logo already identified our product
with the Earth, settled instead on assigning a
different planet to each gateway.
The splash screens were based on an old set of
Red Rose tea cards. The icons were drawn by hand.
Mars, Saturn, and the Moon are Macintosh icons.
Mercury and Jupiter are old four-bit Windows 3.1
icons.
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