Sam Howat

Long before my transition to Avelient as Creative Director, I’d been eyeing their website as a potential project that I wanted to get my hands on. Now, I am getting a chance to dig in and really come up with a solid website as we launch into the new year.

Though I like the general look and flow of the new site, I feel that my drive for reducing distractions may have reduced the functionality of the site. I need your feedback!

The green-building & construction industry has a new social media magazine called Konstructr. Included in the digital magazine are interviews, articles, podcasts and video episodes hosted by it’s creator Vik Duggal. Over the last few years Vik has built a network of green building and construction experts and business leaders who are prominent and passionate [...]

One of the complications of developing a web-app is getting the development team and the design team on the same page as far as user flow and experience. Often, without visual mock-ups teams will spend their time fighting features that could be simply explained through a simple prototype. We find that traditional prototyping can take too many hours, as the design team will have their own work-flow process.