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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink

bruzed — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:40:20 +0000

Role: Senior Developer
Client: Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County
Team: Potion Design
Technology: Cinder, C++, OpenGL, GLSL, JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, HTML, Jade, CSS, SCSS, Python, WebSockets, WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Multi-Touch

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink is a 20+ person multitouch interactive located at the education center in the Solid Waste Authority, West Palm Beach, Florida.

The interactive consists of a 20 foot multitouch table and a large video display system.

On the touch table, tour groups can explore an interactive map to learn more about the renewable energy facility and the area surrounding it. Users are also invited to participate in 3 interactive, educational games and learn more about recycling, waste and how to be more environmentally conscious. The experience is led by an instructor and controlled via a browser-based iPad application.

My responsibilities included developing a variety of features in the interactive map, 2 educational quiz games and an iPad controller application. The Potion Design team consisted of 1 designer, 3 developers and a producer.

A shopping quiz game in which an instructor can post different questions to the group members in a gameshow format, via the iPad controller app.

Users can interact with a large map of the facility and surrounding area. The map contains live streaming videos from parts of the facility, semi-live tracked trash trucks and information about the various processes.

Users can place their hands on the touch table to ‘log in’ to play the Recycle Right sorting game.

Users play as a team in an attempt to hand-sort as many incorrectly recycled items as possible, before they reach the trash.

Shake Shack

bruzed — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:58:35 +0000

Role: Technologist
Client: Shake Shack
Team: Big Spaceship
Technology: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, WordPress, WordPress Plugin API, Python, MySQL, Facebook API, Foursquare API, Instagram API, Twitter API

Shake Shack is addictive burger shop that grew from a small hot dog cart in Madison Square Park to become a New York Institution.

The website is powered by WordPress, a custom responsive, modern, theme and numerous custom plugins that employ popular social API’s to showcase Shake Shack’s large community and immense social following.

Visit the site.

On a mobile device, users can view a map that uses geolocation to display the nearest Shake Shack location.

On a mobile device, users can choose from a list of Shacks sorted from nearest to farthest, based on their location.

Avedon

bruzed — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 01:36:50 +0000

Role: Senior Developer
Client: The Richard Avedon Foundation
Team: Potion Design
Technology: Objective-C, iOS, Python, WordPress, MySQL, JSON, AWS, EC2, S3

This coffee-table iPad app showcases Richard Avedon’s extensive work and entices individuals to explore, study, appreciate and differentiate between object types in this legendary photographer’s archive.

The minimalistic interface makes extensive use of UICollectionView and is utilizes a WordPress/API hosted on Amazon Web Services.

Download the app.

Interaction of Color

bruzed — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:24:51 +0000

Role: Senior Developer
Client: Yale University Press
Team: Potion Design
Technology: Python, PHP, MySQL, JSON, WordPress, WordPress Plugin API

Interaction of Color is an interactive adaptation of Josef Albers’ most influential book on color.

I developed a custom WordPress plugin for content editors to easily create sophisticated color studies on the backend. The system comprises WordPress, a custom WordPress plugin for creating color studies and a Python script that generates static assets and json that can be packaged with the iOS app build.

The Potion team consisted of 2 iOS developers, 1 backend developer and 1 producer.

App Store link

Chobani

bruzed — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:44:43 +0000

Role: Technologist
Client: Chobani
Team: Big Spaceship
Technology: HTML, CSS, LESS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, WordPress

During my time at Big Spaceship, I collaborated with a team of designers, developers and producers to fully redesign Chobani’s consumer website using WordPress. I was involved in developing a variety of front-end and backend components as well as migrating content from legacy platforms.

Corpsify

bruzed — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:30:45 +0000

A reimagined version of a Flash drawing game in HTML5.

During my time at Big Spaceship, I rewrote a Flash/ActionScript drawing game in HTML5 and JavaScript (using Backbone.js and Raphel.js) so that it could be played on tablets.

TweetCatcha

bruzed — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:59:37 +0000

TweetCatcha seeks to uncover the organic nature of news as it travels through Twitter over time, by examining the movement of NY Times articles through Twitter.

The New York Times Newswire API is used to load news for the last 24 hours. The title and URL for the retrieved articles are used to search for tweets with the BackTweets API, a BackType service.

The articles are placed around the center arranged clockwise based on the time they were published. The tweets for each article emanate from the article near the center to the outside. These are based on the time difference between when the article was published and when it was tweeted. The 24 rings indicate the hour difference from 1 near the center to 24 near the outside.

This project was built with ActionScript 3, PHP, MySQL, XML. The data was harvested using the NY Timeswire API and backtweets API.

Data was collected between November 13, 2009 and February 9, 2010 via a cron job set up to pull and store the data locally. The current database is 107 MB, with 15,327 NYTimes articles and 311,885 tweets for those articles.

Source on github.