Jeremy Ashkenas

My on-and-off project for the last year—it's an old-school spatial-hypertext writing space, but also attempts to be informed current trends in writing on the web. You create fragments and shards of text, rearrange them, and link them together to write your essay or story. I used it to write my thesis.

The site has been iteratively built in Rails, with new features and design tweaks pushed out weekly. It's been featured on Metafilter, and used by hundreds of authors.

As an alpha-stage startup out of Providence, Rhode Island, FuseCal is an underdog with great ambition. I had the pleasure of creating a series of design comps for them during the course of a long winter. While much of the work is still to come in future releases, the reworked homepage made it out the door.

Brown University's Alumni Magazine has a long tradition in print, going back to the turn of the last century. It regularly wins national awards for excellence in journalism and design. But their website was falling apart at the seams, and a sudden spurt of traffic broke its back.

I designed and developed their new site, using Joomla as a content-management system. Their number of pages read per visitor has doubled.

After playing with why the lucky stiff’s new pair of Shoes, and trading lil’ apps around on his list, I decided that it was time for the fledgling Shoes apps to have a real home. Thus, the Shoebox.

The Shoes community has embraced it as a home, and uploaded most of their apps to the site, for sharing, commenting, and improvements.