Hi There!
I'm Jono Kane; a San Francisco-based UX professional. Specifically, I'm an interaction designer and prototyper for mobile, web and tablet.
I have a passion for creating exciting and unique media experiences on all screens. The past year of my career has been focused on mobile native experiences and how those translate to and from their web counterparts.
I also produce electronic music and take pictures.
Work
Here are some highlights from recent projects I've been on. Up-to-date, as of today, Saturday 19th of May 2012.
Bubbles iOS & Android App
My most significant project to date, Bubbles, was an entirely new type of app; a spatial networking app which combined geo, social and fun. It was developed under the Yahoo! Catalyst innovation program. Sadly, this project met an untimely fate before it had a chance to shine in the public domain.
I was the design-lead for this project. I created an IxD spec for both iOS and Android, and directed a small team of other contributors. I worked closely with a team of talented mobile and web engineers, as well as a brilliant product visionary and QA resources. An incredibly fun project that allowed me to grow immensely in my career.
| Date: | Spring, Summer & Fall of 2011 |
| Role: | Design Lead (Interaction Designer / Design Manager) |
Thingsly
I performed some early IxD and design exploration work for Thingsly. My contributions to this very exciting startup project include some early-phase feature screens, as well as the cropping tool.
Thingsly, is way to curate, track and follow all the things you like on the web.
| Date: | Summer 2011 |
| Role: | Interaction Designer / Visual Design |
| Location: | http://thingsly.com |
Yahoo! Developer Network
The majority of my career at Yahoo! has been spent prototyping and designing various aspects of Yahoo!'s Developer Network. In 2007, I pioneered a method of rapid iterative prototyping for usability testing which involved building prototypes with real markup, instead of Flash (which was the industry standard method for usability prototypes at the time). This proved to be successful, as many aspects of the prototype itself were used as production code.
In addition to building prototypes for Yahoo!/YDN, I also designed various features including the api uptime dashboard, app-publish functionality, YDN events and other modules.
| Date: | 2007 - Spring 2011 |
| Role: | Interaction Designer / Design Prototyper |
| Location: | http://developer.yahoo.com |
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
A subset of Yahoo!'s Developer Network, the Design Pattern Library is a great resource for designers looking for reference regarding interaction patterns across multiple screens. I worked closely with Christian Crumlish to build the front end code so that we could publish all the patterns that he curated while at Yahoo!.
| Date: | Summer 2009 |
| Role: | Front End Engineer |
| Location: | http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns |
Winter Wine
I designed and built truewinter.com, a boutique website for a premiere Saint Helena wine; Winter wine. This site was built on the Wordpress framework, using Wordpress as a lightweight CMS.
In addition to the site design and engineering, I also took all the product photos.
| Date: | Winter 2009 (ongoing) |
| Role: | Design & Front End Engineering |
| Location: | http://www.truewinter.com |
WorkgroupIT
WorkgroupIT is a Los Gatos, CA -based IT strategy company, which services small-medium-businesses. They needed a flexible site that they could easily edit and update themselves. I designed and built this site using Wordpress as the lightweight CMS.
| Date: | Fall 2009 |
| Role: | Design & Front End Engineering |
| Location: | http://www.workgroupit.com |