Taplance

Safety Autolancet June 2008

Taplance was born from a one week design project assigned to familiarize students with parametric model building using SolidWorks 2008. The class focused on the CAD aspects and thus the opportunity and functionality of the design were not emphasized.

I chose to model an automatic lancet device for this project. Inspiration for this choice came from the Surgilance device which is similar in functionality; however, by redesigning the mechanism I was able to craft a form more friendly to self use. Given the time constraint only the surface form was modeled.

The assignment called for a clamshell enclosure, ergonomic design, and consideration of the manufacturing processes necessary to build each part. The final design needed to be an assembly including several parts.

Taplance is designed to be assembled entirely from injection moulded pieces. To use the safety tab is removed and then, placed on a table or held in one hand, the firing button is pressed with the finger to be lanced. After use the spindle is locked into the far position, the safety tab can be replaced, and the entire unit can be disposed of.

AIESEC Yes!

http://aiesecyes.com March 2008 — August 2008

The AIESEC Young Entrepreneurs Programme is an initiative to inspire and teach young college graduates in Nairobi the skills necessary to start their own businesses. The time frame for putting this project up was very tight and despite difficult communication, it was mostly completed within a week.

The problem I was approached with here was that the site needed to appeal to two different audiences — banks/investors and students. It needed a definite air of professionalism that was also touched with friendliness and inspiration.

This website was only recently launched and is undergoing slight fixes still to achieve complete browser support. The current content is minimal and will grow as demanded.

The Tower

http://gttower.org January 2008 — Present

The online presence and first source of information for the Georgia Institute of Technology's undergraduate research journal, The Tower. The design grew from a basic mockup created by The Tower's design team and implementation involved the creation of a custom Python content management system.

The board overseeing The Tower wanted a professional, yet approachable design and built a small, tight design team to that end. The design team worked to create an initial mockup and revamped The Tower's logo to something stronger and more versatile. My work was collaborative with the other two members of the design team and structural as I built and maintained the site.

The Tower is a fully launched design that has been under only evolutionary design changes for the last few months. The implementation is browser safe for browsers as old as Internet Explorer v5.5.

Shrewd Bravado

Live version available upon request. January 2008 — Present

Personal website and creative journal of the designer. Individually developed in its entirety including an extensive custom content management system written using Django.

The design for this site was an attempt to marry two disparate themes — clean, friendly design along with the fun, extravagant style I was enjoying at the time. In otherwords it became an effort of making extensively bright and complex design look natural and non-threatening.

Currently released only tentatively and is not considered complete in implementation. Many main sections of the site are offline and the design is not fully compatible with Internet Explorer version 6 and below.

As a personal site, the design exhibited here is both more experimental and less complete than other examples might take; however, despite the very few constraints I gave myself to work within I tried to still maintain a consistent aesthetic and a high level of attention to detail.

Sketches

Summer 2008

Sketching, for purpose of communication or fleshing out ideas, is an essential skill for an engineer or designer. During the summer of 2008 I spent some time working on my sketching chops and so here are some examples similar to what might drop out when I work with product or web design.

Most of the following sketches were made for intermediate detail on a product design made for an engineering design class at Georgia Tech. A few are more idea and communication related for either product design in that same class or a web design client.