ROB ASHCOM

Some Useful Skills...

Research Qualitative/quantitative, moderating usability & focus group testing, analytics (GA, Webtrends, etc.), and A/B Testing for million+ audiences Design iX, IA, UX, UI, visual design Writing Hi-conversion labels, copy, help text, branding Prototyping Clickable: Balsamiq wireframes, Fireworks hi-fi mockups, Axure prototypical apps, DHTML (HTML5, CSS3, jQuery)

Resume 2012

Work Examples

Research/Testing
UX

Friendfinder
A/B testing

Speeddate
IA/UI design

Coupons
A/B Testing

Personas
UX

Hitach
IA/UI design

Grocery iQ
mobile design

GiQ Tablet
mobile design

GSD Rescue
web design

Latanya's Art
web design

User-Interface Coding

First of all, I'm not a great front-end coder. But I don't suck either. This site is a fair example of my DHTML skills. The source code will tell you more than I can here (if you know your HTML), but I'll list a few things going on:

1. CSS3 is used throughout (rather than images) for ALL rounded corners, drop shadows, background gradients...
2. CSS bullets are used for the orange numbered circles and the file icons in the work sample pop-up.
3. @font-face is used to embed the Open Sans font.
4. Facebook Open Graph meta-tags are informing the Like button.
5. The Isotope jQuery plugin is implemented to sort/filter the work sample thumbnails.
6. The jQuery load() function is used to load all the work sample pop-up content AFTER the other page content.