Design Portfolio

CareerVillage.org

The mission of CareerVillage is to democratize access to career information. CareerVillage connects students with established professionals providing guidance. There’s currently 2.5 million learners being served and 10,000+ professional volunteers providing guidance to students on the platform.

CareerVillage.org | Design Highlights

Designing formatting tools to improve readership metrics

Designing formatting tools at its core was about solving the problem of low answer readership. A big reason students spent very little time in answers was because answers looked very uninteresting. There wasn’t any styling to them, it was impossible to add a heading title, a quote or even link to a source. Formatting tools allows professional users to adequately write a detailed answer that is segmented and cited.

Designing features to think of the business beyond Q&A

Student users are young, they’re typically between the ages of 16-18 and they’re getting ready to go to college. How does CareerVillage retain their usage after they enter university. At this point, the QA portion of the product doesn’t really serve them very well. Presumably, they’ve set their minds on their major and are confident about their choice. How do we continue providing value to these users.

Designing systems to improve the quality of answers

The value of CareerVillage is the answers. Working on systems to improve answers not only gives CareerVillage a competitive advantage, it also serves our users and allows us to stay true to our mission of making career knowledge more accessible. Increasing the quality of the answers posted to the site required designing systems that not only encourage good answers but clearly defined what makes an answer a valuable one to students.

DME by Soliton Systems

DME by Soliton Systems

DME, now owned by Soliton Systems is the leading provider in secure device management with clients throughout the world. DME (Dynamic Mobile Exchange) is an application for corporations and governments to securely exchange information and separate work and personal communication. In addition, DME allows clients to securely move files between devices and the corporate network. DME gives clients the power to protect company assets by allowing remote wipe of user’s work data.

DME by Soliton Systems | Design Highlights

Increasing usage of core features

The core objective for Soliton Systems was to make DME a more appealing product to its current customer base and potential customers. The way we achieved this objective was to surface the strengths of DME, such as email encryption in the compose email interface in a simple and straightforward way.

Designing a better file sharing system

Designing a better file sharing system goes back to the core objective of Soliton Systems: making DME a more appealing product. File sharing was redesigned from the ground up with the consideration of the user base and their most commonly shared files.

Designing an international product

Designing a better file sharing system goes back to the core objective of Soliton Systems: making DME a more appealing product. File sharing was redesigned from the ground up with the consideration of the user base and their most commonly shared files.

Dewey for iOS

Dewey for iOS

Dewey is a life automation platform. From chores to scheduling to any other monotonous task, the platform will manage your life so you can focus on what necessitates your brain power. Worry less about laundry or what social event you’ll be attending. Instead, invest your energy in tackling challenging issues that only a human can solve.

Phil's Fish Market for iOS

Phil's Fish Market for iOS

My role in this project was to create an experience for customers visiting Phil’s Fish Market, a popular restaurant in my area. My responsibilities in this project were to design the app, create interactive prototypes to test various design ideas and build the app. The goal of the client was to integrate the menu, make it easy for people to arrive at the restaurant and include promotional material.

CoastalCallas.com

CoastalCallas.com

Coastal Callas, a calla grower exporting products overseas approached me with the goal of redesigning their website to better showcase their products. I was responsible for designing, developing and photographing their products.

Ricardo Del Toro — ricardodeltoro.me