Signature.email

An email signature generator to create advanced layouts and distribute them throughout an entire organization.

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    My primary product right now generating income. An advanced editor to design unique and beautiful email signatures and a simple distribution method that can work for organizations of all sizes. Over 15,000 users have now created more than 20,000 signatures on the platform!

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Tally Count App

An online-only tally counting app

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    What started as a quick weekend project has now become the de facto standard for tally counting with thousands of users. My goal was to make something beautiful, customizable, and useful in a number of different ways. After it gained traction I added some premium features such as real time counts across devices and history statistics.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Groundwork1

Simple employee training sent straight to email inboxes

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    Groundwork1 is the most simple learning management system and employee onboarding tool for your employees or volunteers. Training materials are delivered via email, with no logins required for trainees. This makes the training easier to access and your team members more likely to complete it.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Kiln Fire

An app for pottery studio management that helps studios collect kiln firing fees from members, among other things.

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    Kiln firing fees can be a pain for pottery studios and their members. This app allows members to snap a photo of their pottery pieces, measure and submit them. While waiting to be billed for all of their collected work until later in the week or month.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Invite.social

Create a beautifully simple RSVP website quickly

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    I got tired of using the bloated and ad-ridden RSVP websites out on the web and decided to make my own.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Identity Design
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Resourcefully

A Branded Resource Library Software as a Service

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    Enables organizations to create a secure resource portal without the need for a development team. Creates branded, professional content libraries that organize and display files. An organization's documents, videos, and links can become a valuable resource to invite clients, vendors, volunteers, customers, or partners. Collaboration with Good Gravy.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Vue.js Front-End

The Votes Out

A free real-time mobile party game

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    A mobile phone party game I made for fun. Answer zany questions with your most creative, irreverent, and witty responses to win votes from other players. It's quick and fun with hilarious results that your group will be laughing about for days.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Simple Estimate

Make project managers lives easier with this online web estimation tool

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    This is a side project of my own that I concepted, designed, and developed from the ground up. The tool is built to make creating estimates for projects easier and more accurate. Using a beautifully simple user interface it speeds up estimation process. Some of the features include project templates, online and PDF sharing, versioning, and much more.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation

STRYV App

Set your goals & achieve them with friends

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    Setting goals shouldn't be done alone. Set your personal weekly goals and habits in sight of your group of peers. Check them off as you accomplish them, and achieve personal and group streaks.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

State of Shirts

An e-commerce side project just for the fun of it

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    Everyone loves those "home" T-shirts with the state on it, right? But what about those people that are transplants, and home is in two states? Well, they can show their pride now with a shirt.

    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development

WP Client Reports

Send Beautiful Client Report Emails for WordPress Site Maintenance

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    A WordPress plugin I developed to help those of us who do monthly site maintenance for our clients and deliver professional reports to show what you have done on their site in the last month and help prove the value of what you are doing. Additionally I developed a Pro version of the plugin that allows for other statistics and integrations to be added to the report.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development

Archive Control

Help WordPress site builders control lists of content

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    I thought of this idea a long time ago but didn't have the development chops to make it. The idea returned to me when I needed it yet again and I finished it in a few days. It allows the site builder to define characteristics of lists of content, like custom headlines, descriptions before and after, order, pagination, and a bunch more handy stuff.

    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development

WP Family Blog Theme

A WordPress Theme for Families and Mombloggers

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    I designed and developed this WordPress theme to be a beautiful, simple, and personal way to share family life online. Targeted especially at mom's who are interested in blogging about their kids, families, and their worlds. Every family member has their own profile and can be tagged on each post. It elegantly showcases family photos, cute stories, and everyday life.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development

Sports Team Theme

A premium WordPress theme for club and high school sports teams

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    This premium WordPress theme I designed and developed has sold over 500 times in the last 7 years. It is flexible enough for any sports team to use and create their own custom site, allowing them to change the design to reflect their team as well as add rosters, schedules, and news.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development

Project Pipeline

Help freelancers and small companies keep track of the projects they have in their que

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    This is my self-created dashboard for my freelance business. All of my projects and invoices flow through this interface. It helps me keep track of my sales process along with some of the accounting side as well. I decided to open it up to let other people try it out and give feedback.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development

Boxed Up Fun

Help board gamers answer the question "Which game should I buy next?"

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    A continuing project in my spare time to create a simple-to-browse database of board games for beginners. Users can create accounts to share their game collections and reviews as well as get personalized recommendations through a similarity engine that I developed.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design

Agency Search

Create the definitive listing of creative agencies in Minneapolis.

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    This was my attempt to create a listing site where I would put up a list of agencies, allow them to be filtered using a variety of tags, and allow interested parties to feature their agency at the top with a logo. It's still a work in progress and I need to continue adding agencies and new cities.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development

Voyager Industries

Represent Voyager Industries' top notch brands, people, and customers.

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    Voyager needed a new corporate website to help with the hiring process. It needed to represent the amazing brands they design and manufacture and the experience of working there, while making the hiring process a breeze.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • WordPress Development

Minnesota Exteriors

Communicate Minnesota Exteriors commitment to high quality with a professional bold design.

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    Minnesota exteriors is a family-owned home improvement company in the Twin Cities. They needed a new site to communicate their quality, breadth of services and the expertise they represent within the contractors they represent. All while increasing conversions of browsing customers.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • WordPress Development

Cafe Imports Customer Portal

Give customers the ability to look up information they need to make ordering decisions

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    This custom web application enables customers to get directly at the information they care most about without having to go back and forth with a salesperson. They can look up pricing, make orders, view their account history and even get stats on what they ordered in the past.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Windsong Farm

Give a private golf course the 5 star treatment it deserves

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    I designed and developed this new site for Windsong Farm to take their aging website and give it the exclusive club feel that it needed.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • WordPress Development

Yetti Dealer Portal

Create an ordering portal to facilitate the ordering process with dealers

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    This custom web application allows Yetti Dealers to log in, create estimates, ask for custom quotes, and then track their orders through the entire process from start to delivery.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End

Augurian

Design a bold new website for Augurian to help them find new clients

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    Augurian is bold in their claims and wants potential clients to know that they are good at what they do. The design was edgy and bold using large designed headlines to illustrate their point.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • WordPress Development

Riverwalk Rochester

Design a luxurious new website for a new apartment building in downtown Rochester.

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    Working with an art director I designed a new web experience for the Riverwalk Apartments. The website engages visitors with photos, floor plans, 3D tours and interactive maps to help them understand just how special this place is.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • WordPress Development

Iron Timber

A beat-up logo for a custom furniture company

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    Creating aesthetically pleasing custom furniture out of solid wood and welded iron is what this shop loves to do. Their logo melds those textures into a form that represents them and their artwork.

Iron Timber

Adopt a Love Story

Redesign a non-profit's web experience to compel new donors to give to the adoption cause

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    Adopt a Love Story needed a kickstarter-like website where families trying to adopt could tell their story and raise funds from their community and the web at large. The new website gives each family a visually stunning way to tell their story and communicate their need so that donors can help give kids in need a forever family.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • WordPress Development

Stretch to Text

A web app for HR managers to help their employees remember to stretch

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    I designed and developed this web application that sends out stretching exercises to employees via text message on a daily basis. Employees can respond and statistics are tracked. Company HR or Safety Managers can import, add, and edit employees as well as holidays, groups and settings through this interface.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Laravel Development

Windfall Promo

Develop an e-commerce site for on-demand screenprinting and embroidery

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    This site houses over 395,000 SKU's across 5,500 unique product styles between 93 brands and 2 different distributors. It was built to allow customers to quickly order and re-order their custom clothing and promotional needs. It also allows for custom stores to be created for restaurants and other multi-location businesses with a limited set of pre-defined products.

    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Laravel Development

Hands & Feet

An identity for a mobile app that challenges users to do good deeds

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    Being the "hands and feet" of Jesus is what this mobile application challenges its users. The identity is bold, reaching out of itself and into the world around it.

Hands & Feet

TSW/Progressive Builders

Create a pair of logos for the residential and commercial sides of a builder.

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    Uniting two divisions together through a visual communication system that is shared, these two logos represent the building process through their unique perspectives and their simplified architectural type renderings.

TSW/Progressive Builders

CG3 Consulting

A consulting company needed a memorable, bold mark.

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    CG3 is all about "Creating Growth", and their mark needed to visually show the results that it could bring to its customers. It does this through a custom designed typeface as well as a dynamic shape bursting at its seams.

CG3 Consulting

McIntyre Library

UW Eau Claire's College Library needed a visual identity for itself

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    Libraries have an identity problem, everyone assumes they're about books. McIntyre wanted to realign itself to the digital world around it, showing its many digital resources it could offer students interlocking and working together.

McIntyre Library

Leadership Development Group

Helping organizations identify their leaders and make them even better.

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    The identity worked to show the process of choosing people within an organization and training them. The end goal being that the organization aligns itself to its goals and functions as a cohesive whole.

Leadership Development Group

Baldwin Christian School

The school has its roots set deep in its beliefs

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    The leaf mark represents the learning and growth that happens at the school, and how Christ is at the center, within the roots, of the whole organization.

Baldwin Christian School

iEDGE

An identity for the next generation of Navigator missionaries

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    iEDGE is a program for teams of young missionaries who commit to live in a country while sharing their faith. The compass communicates directionality and orientation while the globe in the center communicates their intentionality and strategy around the world. The outward arrows show expansion and growth of the gospel.

iEDGE

Famous Daves

Create a warm inviting environment for viewers to learn about award-winning BBQ.

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    I worked with Famous Dave’s to redesign their website, making it mouth-wateringly warm and inviting. The goals of the new design were to get people into their restaurants and increase visibility to their restaurant locations, delicious BBQ menu, and catering business.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience