The Ramp Group, a local digital UX agency, is co-hosting an event on Wednesday with ...
Conference on Building Windows 8 Apps
Posted on February 21st, 2013
The Ramp Group, a local digital UX agency, is co-hosting an event on Wednesday with Microsoft you might find interesting. We will be talking about using Windows 8 to extend existing applications into the field via Windows Phone and tablet devices. Along with it being a good introduction into designing for Windows 8, it also [...]
Sample Class Work
Posted on June 1st, 2012
This spring, I began teaching two courses at the University of Washington. The class has been very enjoyable and I have been extremely impressed with the level of talent and creativity my students have demonstrated. Everyone had shown tremendous talent, so I wanted to share some of the work that they had come up with. [...]
GreenLight Music Goes Live
Posted on March 15th, 2012
Perfect Pixels provided the initial persona research and information architecture to the recently launched GreenLight Music service. A Corbis subsidiary, the service launched with more than a million-song catalog as a solution to the often frustrating and convoluted offline process of licensing music for commercial use. The offering makes it feasible for a corporation to [...]
Perfect Pixels’ Jason Levine will begin teaching at the University of Washington in 2012
Posted on December 14th, 2011
Beginning in the Spring 2012 quarter, Jason Levine will be teaching in the undergrad program for the Information School as well as the Masters of Communication in Digital Media program for the University of Washington. The two classes will be Information Architecture and Interactive Design. The Information Architecture class will be focusing on how to [...]
Windows 8 Interface takes a departure
Posted on September 20th, 2011
Watch: Microsoft’s First Official ‘Windows 8′ Interface Demo
Case Study for the Employment Security Department
Posted on September 14th, 2011
We were tasked with a complete re-architecture and redesign of the Employment Security Department‘s employment and economic information website which is set to go live in a few months. The site contains thousands of publications, reports and presentations which required a complete overhaul. The case study below describes how we accomplished this task by focusing [...]
CareOregon case study
Posted on February 10th, 2011
Last week we launched CareOregon’s new website. The process included user surveys, usability tests, creating user personas, brand exploration, editorial, photography selection, sitemap and wireframing, and design. You can view the video below to hear more about the various deliverables. The design was targeting to improve the level of user engagement and efficiency in users [...]
Video Produced for Cobalt Group
Posted on January 23rd, 2011
We just completed an animated video promoting Cobalt’s new ad service. Cobalt is a web hosting and online advertising service for car dealerships. They wanted an innovative and fun video to send to their customers to introduce their new service offering without being boring while saying it. So the challenge was to take on a [...]
Persona Research for Discovering Website Needs
Posted on August 12th, 2010
A Masters in Psychology class presentation I had done about discovering the core needs of a website’s users in order to better optimize the user interface. Just hit the Play button to hear the audio voice over. Defining Users for Finding Website Needs View more presentations from Jason Levine.