Since autumn 2008 I am working with the team of moviepilot to improve the user experience of their web-site. This has been a great and intense trip so far. It involves all stages of UI-design: brainstorming, concept, prototyping, usability testing and implementation. And it provides the wonderful opportunity to catch up with the latest developments in RubyOnRails world like Haml and Sass.

I have to admit that redesigning moviepilot is by far the most complex UI-job I have been involved in. Not only because the site's tremendous complexity, but also because of their perfectionism. I never had a design that went through so many design stages. But the results look very promising and will go online March 2009. I can't wait, because they turned me into a big fan and I am now using the site almost every day.

What moviepilot.de is about

Although it is still a long way to match all my own expectations regarding ui-design (well, to critic is my job there...) the site is really cool:

Moviepilot calculates your taste regarding movies. After you registered and rated something like 50 movies, it will forecast how you would rate most other movies running in cinema, on DVD or even TV. It has cool lists of the movies current running in theaters sorted by your taste.

Working with them has actually increases my film consumption tremendously! Give it a try and register: www.moviepilot.de

A small task of creating some low resolution icons for their amazingly complex project management suite "Projekt PMS", quickly turned into a major redesign and finally into a long-term trusted relationship. The key issue in this project was balancing obvious ui-requirements/enhancements, the espectations of existing customers and technical limitations. Although the final implementation of the design tool well over two years, it proved to be an excellent investion into the future of Projektron.

Startet in 2006 by Benjamin Krause, omdb.org is to become an ajax driven alternative database for movie fans. Since I joined the project fairly at the beginning, I was responsible for most of the interface design and the general usability. I could also contribute to certain aspects of the database design.

Because omdb was full of the newest technologies (ruby on rails driven ajax, tableless css2, etc.), it was a perfect chance for becoming acquainted with the latest developments in web technology.

The overall look is the result of a fantastic team work with Benjamin Krause, Sheila Seyfert, Diana Karsten and many more.

I started to implement Streber because I needed a solution for my daily work as freelance designer and programmer. Today it Streber evolved into a considerable open source solution, which gathered a small community of users and developers. It has been translated into more than 10 languages and is now an important tool for my work.

Very roughly you can describe Streber as a mesh-up of forum, wiki, todo-lists, bug-report, and time-tracking tool. It requires PHP5 and can be installed and configured with FTP and HTTP access.

Read more at www.streber-pm.org.

Concept and design of a corporate identity for a post-production company.

I made detailed mock-ups for a suggested community website of the watermill foundation.