Working with search engine vendor, Transparensee, we designed a several series of interfaces that matched Transparensee’s extremely flexible fuzzy search engine with Hello World’s requirements for a user-friendly but deep media-based social network.
Browse members wireframe
Browse media wireframe
Browse media wireframe
Blockr 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
Sitemap
Oddcast is the creator of MyPal, animated avatars that can be embedded within any social networks, blog, or mobile device to provide a fun and informative way of engaging users. Users can use built-in text-to-speech technology to create messages that the avatars deliver.
Beginning with an idea that was only half-baked of creating embeddable avatars, Amos created a specification document, and set of conceptual wireframes to prove the technology to potential investors and clients in order to raise a round of financing to fund development for the finished product.
MyPal home wireframe
Avatar management wireframe
As part of the greater push within the United Nations Peacekeepers to better manage their information resources, Amos was brought on for a second time (click to see the first project) to spec out and design the experience for the backend of a giant Intranet project, the first part of which was a tool necessary for categorizing and attaching metadata to a huge archive of documents and ad-hoc advice that Peacekeepers have written for each other to avoid common pitfalls and to transfer knowledge in a sustainable way. This tool became known by those who used it as the “Ferrari of knowledge management” tools.
Admin tool sitemap
Administrative tool home wireframe
Browse documents wireframe
Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships. Each Needie has a custom-developed electronic nervous system that they use to talk, sing, and feel hugs. Needies communicate with each other verbally and wirelessly.
Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for human affection — or, getting touch, as they like to say.
When you give Needies touch (by hugging and squeezing them), they will return your kindness with songs and shameless flattery.
But remember that Needies always know when other Needies are getting touch! If one Needie is getting touch while others are neglected, the unloved Needies will conspire to take its place.
Kelly holding Mossie
The United Nations Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit is the knowledge management team of the UN. They maintain records of the lessons learned by employees around the globe working in the field. In 2005, the UN realized that it needed to better organize this information to make it better categorized and more accessible to field officers. The first project in this initiative was the reorganization and redesign of the information and documents held in the public-facing Best Practices web site.
UN PBPU home wireframe
UN PBPU organizations directory wireframe
UN PBPU document library wireframe
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As a third contract with the United Nations Peacekeepers, Amos was asked to design and organize the user-facing components of the UN’s new intranet project. Although spearheaded by the Peacekeepers department, the intranet would serve as an example to the rest of the organization for a well-managed highly ordered information system.
Peacekeeing intranet search wireframe
Peacekeeping intranet search results wireframe
Working with Popstick on a proposal for a new online reality show for AOL, we developed the concepts for a pitch revolving around an online social network of game show participants. Visitors to the site could vote for their favorite contestant, and any visitor to the site could participate to become one of the select few featured contestants.
Reality Star Power home screen
Reality Star Power latest episode screen
Reality Star Power contestant profile screen
Microsoft’s Digital Broadcast Manager was the first integrated solution for securing, managing, and selling digital audio and video for e-commerce. Amos Bloomberg, working in the Windows Media Group at Microsoft, designed the interface for both the client-facing and administrative sides of the software.
Microsoft Digital Broadcast Manager administrative screen
Microsoft Digital Broadcast Manager system architecture