Blockr Book Publisher
Posted: February 13, 2007 Filed under: development, user experience | Tags: blockr Comments OffBlockr is a web application that makes it easy to design, publish, and sell books. Part social network, part design software, part book publisher, and part e-commerce, Blockr required an analytical mind to pore over their business plan, the initial creative ideas, and convert those needs into an effective and practical design or a web application that could be developed in time for impatient venture capitalists.
Having worked with Blockr CEO Jamie Rosen in the 90′s as part of his Comet Systems startup company, Plastic Past President, Amos Bloomberg, felt comfortable tackling the job. We designed and launched a full-featured yet easy-to-use web application that attracted the first early adopter user community, and eventually lead to further financing for the fledgling company.
The digital equivalent of a napkin sketch outlining the flow of the entire application
User flow comparison
The book editor wireframe
The image picker interface
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Esprsso News Reading Platform
Posted: February 3, 2007 Filed under: development, experimental, user experience | Tags: esprsso Comments OffEsprsso.net brings together two of our favorite things: news reading and conversation. While sipping the proverbial cup, users of Esprsso can read news originating from virtually any news sources or blog, while engaging their peers in discussion.
Esprsso works in much the same way as other news aggregators, such as Google Reader and Daylife. However, Esprsso makes sharing of news as simple as a single click. Each article has a discussion board where readers can leave comments. Additionally, readers can rate articles, bookmark articles, forward them to friends, and organize articles into custom “Channels” of news to which others users can then subscribe.
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Review in the New York Law Journal, April 17, 2007