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IBM Corporate Intranet Home Page Redesign
Technical Consultant, Site Developer, Production Designer
The redesign of the corporate Intranet Home page was a piece of a much larger redesign
of the entire Intranet. The IBM Intranet is the largest corporate Intranet in the world,
and consists of thousands of different sub-sites on different servers.
The Home page is to be the flagship of this new design, and is customizable based
on a user's profile and preferences.
I served as a technical consultant during the design of this site, and then built the
site from a set of PSDs. In the process, I defined a master stylesheet that will be used
by every site on the Intranet to adopt this design.
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Home Page Customization UI
Designer, Information Architect, Developer
I developed the interface for the customization of the Corporate Intranet Home page, based on
numerous meetings with IBM. I was responsible for a large part of the Information Architecture, including
wireframes and process flow-charts. I also designed nearly all of the pages (based on the design of the Home page), and programmed them as well.
The most challenging page to create was an interface for customizing links which appear on the home page. Links could come
from a predetermined list, or new links could be created from scratch. The interface also allows users to add links to Lotus Notes databases.
I developed the front-end code for this and other pages, including some complex javascript form manipulation.
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Intranet Templates
Technical Consultant, Developer
As part of the redesign of IBM's Intranet, a set of templates were created with the goal
that any site developer on the Intranet could use these templates to build a site. The templates had to
be flexible enough for a variety of uses, and needed to have a wide variety of different options.
The templates were designed to be extremely light, using only centrally cached images. They also had to be
designed with translation to other languages in mind.
I served as a technical consultant during the design of these templates, helping the designers
to make informed decisions. I developed a set of template pages, consisting of several universal shells pages,
and a series of text files with cut-and-paste content to drop into these shells. All of the templates depend of a common set
of images and a common stylesheet, which will reside on IBM's central Intranet server.
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Olympic Games IT articles
Technical Consultant, Developer
These were a series of five articles appearing on different parts of the current
IBM Intranet, to evangelize IBM's sponsorship of the 2000 Olympic Games.
Each of these articles was to include a chart depicting some of the technological innovations
IBM will employ at the Games. The challenge was to create an interface that would be visually exciting, while
allowing IBM to edit the copy of the charts after delivery.
I helped the designer of these articles to choose the appropriate technology (DHTML), and
then developed the pages from PSDs.
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