Matt Buckmaster: Designer
Matt Buckmaster: Designer
UI/UX •DATA VISUALIZATION • MOTION & VIDEO
BRANDING & IDENTITY • PIXELS & PRINT • EVENTS
6+ years experience in UX/UI design built upon a solid background in fundamental human factors and classical visual design • Native iOS and Android app design • Web design • Wireframes, prototypes, redlines, user testing • Award-winning art-direction/design and branding • Signage, trade-shows, video production • Clients include Boeing, Space Needle, Microsoft (Xbox, Bing, Windows Media Center, MSN), Susan G. Komen, and more.
Kiha "Aro"
Kiha’s intelligent mobile assistant platform for Android (Sr. UX/UI Designer, 2010-2012)
A suite of mobile productivity apps enhanced with intelligent one-touch actions made possible by ARO's core technology: making sense of the user's incoming and outgoing data via semantic analysis and natural language processing.
Kiha "Aro"
Kiha’s intelligent mobile assistant platform for Android (Sr. UX/UI Designer, 2010-2012)
A suite of mobile productivity apps enhanced with intelligent one-touch actions made possible by ARO's core technology: making sense of the user's incoming and outgoing data via semantic analysis and natural language processing.
UX Design: Core features including email threading, meeting location selection, contact management, email threading and integrated text messaging.
UI Design: A complete overhaul of legacy UI to keep pace with quickly evolving mobile UX/UI expectations.
Design innovation: Several new implementations of Kiha's core technology presented to executive management (Paul Allen and the Vulcan board of directors):
- The Entity Clipboard, a method for easily composing complex actions from conveniently available names/locations/dates/etc.
- A desktop browser plug-in, a multifaceted informant integrated in to a desktop web browser providing inline intelligent actions and information.
- AroStream, a sophisticated notification system, later to become Bubbleator, designed to intelligently "bubble up" important information to the user, laying the groundwork for SAGA.
Saga
ARO's flagship life-tracker/recommendation app for iOS and Android (UX Lead/Art Director, 2012-2014)
Saga took the innovative technologies originally developed for Kiha's "ARO" productivity suite and applied them to a more personal app. I was one of two designers on a small team that reimagined what the "personal assistant" could be.
www.getsaga.com
Saga
ARO's flagship life-tracker/recommendation app for iOS and Android (UX Lead/Art Director, 2012-2014)
Saga took the innovative technologies originally developed for Kiha's "ARO" productivity suite and applied them to a more personal app. I was one of two designers on a small team that reimagined what the "personal assistant" could be.
www.getsaga.com
UX Design: Product design and UX lead.
UX Innovation: Early versions of Saga were strictly focused on providing recommendations to the user based on their recorded travels, visits, schedule and so on. It did not expose the actual history data (a wasted opportunity as far as I was concerned). We had a time-machine capable of recalling their past and more importantly, predicting the future. I proposed a new UX: A timeline that combined the PAST (user's location data history), the NOW (timely and intelligent suggestions based on the user's current location), and the NEXT (a view in to the future). This timeline approach was unanimously embraced. Development on the old design halted immediately, and the new design was quickly realized.
UI and Visual Design: UI design and art direction/design of branding and marketing.
ARO
ARO was a small startup corporation following the downsizing of the former Kiha corporation. I was one of two designers who were retained as part of a core group focused on cutting-edge intelligent mobile apps and technologies. (2011-2014)
The ARO brand borrowed from the mystique around Seattle's World's Fair. Designed to evoke the sense of magic and optimism one would have felt walking through the gates in 1962–the same feeling we shared about our own mission and working on the leading edge of mobile technology.
ARO
ARO was a small startup corporation following the downsizing of the former Kiha corporation. I was one of two designers who were retained as part of a core group focused on cutting-edge intelligent mobile apps and technologies. (2011-2014)
The ARO brand borrowed from the mystique around Seattle's World's Fair. Designed to evoke the sense of magic and optimism one would have felt walking through the gates in 1962–the same feeling we shared about our own mission and working on the leading edge of mobile technology.
Art direction and design: ARO logo and brand guidelines.
Process work:
Bubbleator
Bubbleator
UI/UX: Android Notification app
Art Direction & Design: Logo, Marketing materials, Website, Campaign
2011-2013
Space Needle
Branding, interactive kiosk UI update, welcome video, and Addy Award-winning website for the Space Needle (Art Direction and Design, 2008)
Seattle's iconic Space Needle corporation enlisted Radarworks to perform a sweeping design update of their interactive displays (a major public attraction), website, branding, and video billboard.
Space Needle
Branding, interactive kiosk UI update, welcome video, and Addy Award-winning website for the Space Needle (Art Direction and Design, 2008)
Seattle's iconic Space Needle corporation enlisted Radarworks to perform a sweeping design update of their interactive displays (a major public attraction), website, branding, and video billboard.
Art Direction and Design:
OverHeard
ARO's OverHeard app let people capture great and unexpected moments in life; A record-button for what just happened. (UI/UX/Art Direction, 2014)
To create a friendly yet honest introduction to a great social networking app (explaining its use-case to the public while allaying potential privacy concerns) a classic 1960's reel-to-reel tape recorder with its colorful oversized buttons was procured, photographed, and adapted for use as the OverHeard "mascot" image.
OverHeard
ARO's OverHeard app let people capture great and unexpected moments in life; A record-button for what just happened. (UI/UX/Art Direction, 2014)
To create a friendly yet honest introduction to a great social networking app (explaining its use-case to the public while allaying potential privacy concerns) a classic 1960's reel-to-reel tape recorder with its colorful oversized buttons was procured, photographed, and adapted for use as the OverHeard "mascot" image.
Art direction & design: Logo, photography, branding, website, social marketing campaign.
Website depicts great moments in life captured–in fact rescued–with the OverHeard app, utilizing parallax scrolling to present a sequence of events: an unforgettable moment among friends and the ability to quickly share it on social media.
Brightly
ARO's UV-exposure awareness app for iOS. (UX/UI/Art Direction, 2014)
Developed in collaboration with a dermatologist, Brightly utilized ARO's highly advanced location awareness technologies and ability recognize users' patterns to provide helpful reminders and potentially life-saving advice.
Brightly
ARO's UV-exposure awareness app for iOS. (UX/UI/Art Direction, 2014)
Developed in collaboration with a dermatologist, Brightly utilized ARO's highly advanced location awareness technologies and ability recognize users' patterns to provide helpful reminders and potentially life-saving advice.
Role: Art Direction and design of Logo, Branding, Website. UX/UI redesign.
Radarworks
Radarworks is a design and marketing agency. For several years, the company also provided corporate event design and planning. (Motion Design, 2010)
The "circles" theme was an element of Radarworks' branding designed to evoke the excitement of fireworks and camera flashes–a staple of any truly momentous event.
Radarworks
Radarworks is a design and marketing agency. For several years, the company also provided corporate event design and planning. (Motion Design, 2010)
The "circles" theme was an element of Radarworks' branding designed to evoke the excitement of fireworks and camera flashes–a staple of any truly momentous event.
Art Direction and Motion Design: Radarworks/Radarworks Events brand and bumper video (Adobe After Effects).
Radarworks promotional bumper video.