Author Archives: Melanie

Wrapped In Glass WordPress Theme

By Melanie | Published: August 16, 2010
Wrapped In Glass, a rock band based out of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, contacted me to do up a WordPress theme for their Web Site. http://www.wrappedinglass.net
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Sosiego WordPress Theme

By Melanie | Published: July 31, 2010
Sosiego, a turn-key publishing and marketing company, that provides services for authors to market their content in an array of mediums.  The company’s founder reached out to me to design a custom Internet presence for her company that utilizes WordPress as a content management system.
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Book Review: Mobile Web Design

By Melanie | Published: July 27, 2010
Mobile Web Design by Cameron Moll My rating: 3 of 5 stars I enjoyed this book. It was very informative without being really heavy and boring. A great read for designer-types who are getting into mobile web design. View all my reviews >>
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I’ve come to understand…

By Melanie | Published: July 6, 2010
… a few things about myself this weekend during my moments of stillness and reflection.  The thought of participating with large groups of people in something produces a fair amount of anxiety.  I’m not sure why, even when chances are I knew a fair amount of folks there at said event, but it was just [...]
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k2tog

By Melanie | Published: June 27, 2010
My dear friend, Kasee, and I have decided that we’re going to try out our hand at starting up a weekly knitting/crocheting group.  We aptly named it “k2tog” with reference to the knitting abbreviation for “Knit 2 Together.” We’ll be meeting every Tuesday night from 7pm to 9pm at the Bean Good Cafe, located in St. [...]
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Closure

By Melanie | Published: June 16, 2010
I walked in the 112th Commencement this past weekend and it has finally given me some measure of closure to my 19 year college career.  It actually wasn’t 19 years straight.  Mom and I counted and it really only came down to about 5 years of work… spread out between 19 years.  That’s a long [...]
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Reflections of an Inexperienced Contractor

By Melanie | Published: May 31, 2010
In December 2009, I was laid off for the first time in my career as a professional Web Designer.  It came as a shock as I had gotten used to just staying out of the gossip/fray of Corporate American and generally kept my eyes “on the prize” which was simply to get a good job [...]
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Reflecting Upon Celebration

By Melanie | Published: May 18, 2010
I started SNL in 1999.  I came to DePaul University expending a “normal” learning experience, but I was wrong!  The School for New Learning had my name all over it, and I was so motivated by the prospect of eventually having a full-fledged Bachelors Degree in my hands.   The idea of being able to learn [...]
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US Bank Redesign

By Melanie | Published: May 12, 2010
Actually found a moment to check out if the new design that I had worked on while under contract with US Bank had launched… and indeed it has! I worked on a few elements of this site, the login area, find a location, tables and disclaimer text to name a few. Nice to see it out there!
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Advanced Project

By Melanie | Published: May 4, 2010
One of the requirements for Graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree through DePaul University’s School for New Learning is to write an extensive research paper and provide an artifact that shows competence of your chosen focus area.  My focus area is User Experience Design. That being said, I am pleased to offer up the final paper for [...]
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