An addictive, pick-up-and-play physics game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad based on a Flash prototype built back in 2007.

Ramps shot up to number eight in the US App Store paid charts when it was featured by Apple as an iPhone Game of the Week. Apple described the game as “a simple and stylish physics puzzler you won’t want to put down.” It has since been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of players worldwide.

To commemorate the festival’s ten-year anniversary, my team crafted a website redesign that adapted to desktop, tablet and smartphone resolutions using CSS3 media queries. Nifty features like HTML5 audio playback for supported devices, a custom schedule tool and a bunch of presentational improvements were added to the mix as well.

The site received a WebAward for Best Music Website, six W3 Awards and a HOW Interactive Design award. It was also on the .net Awards 2011 shortlist for Redesign of the Year.

While part of the McAfee Design Studio, I collaborated with the company’s branding gurus to establish a standard for application iconography. The goal was to incorporate the McAfee shield into icons that complimented existing brand materials while matching the expectations of modern users.

In addition to redrawing the shield for all icon sizes, a set of guidelines was developed to unify all of McAfee’s desktop and notification iconography.

In the process of experimenting with Twitter’s and Flickr’s respective APIs, I inadvertently created a frivolous art app that harvests keywords from your recent tweets so it can display a set of related photos. The app was released purely to determine if anyone else would find its results entertaining.

Much to my surprise, Portwiture was soon featured on Mashable as an Incredible Twitter Powered Art Project. It continues to cultivate an audience of users who enjoy serendipitous photography (and nerdy Twitter mashups).

FireFTP is one of my favorite Firefox extensions. It’s just plain cool to have a fully functional FTP client in the browser.

I redesigned the existing blue seahorse icon from scratch just for the fun of it. I wanted the character to have personality and a distinctive shape. I sent my contribution to the developer, who was nice enough to incorporate it.

I gave the icon a subtle refresh a few years later, as well as a new aquatic friend, the FireSSH sea urchin.

To coincide with the debut of several new music features on Bing, my team at Waggener Edstrom designed a promotional website to get users excited about artist discovery.

Visitors would be treated to compelling interviews with popular musicians, each sharing their story of artistic inspiration. They could then use any of the latest Bing features to find and share their own discoveries.