Coming home a different person

Design, programming, production Coming home a different person Published in The Washington Post, October 3, 2010 I worked closely with Whitney Shefte and Alberto Cuadra to create this piece. We storyboarded the intro video, motion graphics segments, and the flow of the piece together, then each created the individual parts. I built the interactivity around the intro page menu, the brain segment, and the package navigation. It features deep linking to each video, gallery, or multimedia segment. Tools used: Flash/ActionScript 3.0 with audio and video…

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Is life getting better or worse?

Design, programming Better/Worse life project Published in The Washington Post, October 30, 2011 I worked with Dan Keating (database) on this project, which takes a unique approach to user-generated data. It mashes up responses from users with actual numbers on unemployment, median income and population growth to see how people’s perceptions line up with reality. A week after launch we had nearly 5,000 responses. We use IP location to target the experience to the user’s county and state, and ask them to make a rating…

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