Nathan Hiemstra - Portfolio
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Wealth Strategist Partners
An investment cunsulting firm in Chicago.
- Role:
- Front-end and back-end development
- Challenge:
- To execute Lime Red Studio's design to perfection, created a custom content management tool using PHP and MySQL, integrate Contant Contact's newsletter signup.
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Chunowitz, Teitelbaum & Mandel
Accounting firm in Chicago.
- Role:
- Front-end and back-end development
- Challenge:
- To execute Lime Red Studio's design to perfection, created a custom content management tool using PHP and MySQL, integrated third party calendar and calendar editing tool.
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The Lice Detectives
In-home lice removal service in Chicago
- Role:
- Front-end development
- Challenge:
- To execute Lime Red Studio's design to perfection, integrate their third party newsletter signup.
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Seth Boustead
Chicago based composer
- Role:
- Front-end development
- Challenge:
- To execute design to perfection and integrate flash audio players.
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Futureshop / Best Buy Canada
Canada's largest consumer electronics retailer.
- Role:
- Development, content set up through .NET environment.
- Challenge:
- Consultant: worked at Best Buy Canada's headquarters in Vancouver assisting in the finishing stages of their site redesigns. Consultant through Manifest Digital.
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Yellow Card Red Card
E-cards for for people dangerously close to getting kicked out of the game.
- Role:
- Development, Usability
- Challenge:
- To execute Lime Red Studio's design and great site concept to perfection and perform some usability testing. I used jQuery and PHP to let users customize their e-cards before they are emailed to recipients.
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Inuit Art Society
Arts organization site for promoting events and growing membership.
- Role:
- Design, Development, Strategy
- Challenge:
- To create a site that endears users to the beauty
of Inuit art, while solving the following goals
for the organization. I helped them to identify
and prioritize these goals:
- Communication mechanism to members
- Users find educating info about Inuit art (articles, book reviews, links)
- Users find art to buy and sell
- Grow membership
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WHPK 88.5FM University of Chicago
Radio station program schedule and promotion.
- Role:
- Design and Development
- Challenge:
- The design had to feel like it could belong to any of the station's genres, while still "taking a stand" and having an emotional, musical identity. I built an extensive content management tool so the station could update the shows, schedule, djs, news stories, events, and archive old shows.
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Sears Inventory Management Application
Internal web-based application for Sears and their vendors.
- Role:
- Front-end Development. (Consultant through Acquity Group)
- Challenge:
- To provided front-end development for this internal web-based application for Sears. I collaborated with Acquity Group's designers, user experience strategists, other front-end developers to produce front-end code (including jQuery) ready to for the Sears back-end team to integrate into their system. I also assisted with usability testing.
* Under development
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Illinois Family Divorce
E-commerce solution for online divorce packages and library of divorce related articles.
- Role:
- Development, conversion goal and usability consulting
- Challenge:
To build the site pixel-perfect based on the original design. To incorporate third-party search and forum packages. I helped clarify the actual conversion goals and redefined emphasis of the site.
This site and LawyerSchmoyer.com (below) share the same e-commerce functionality, so I developed it in a way that shows the partnership between the two sites while keeping the branding of each individual site.
This site involved using ASP and Authorize.net.
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LawyerSchmoyer
E-commerce solution for online divorce packages.
- Role:
- Development, conversion goal and usability consulting
- Challenge:
To build site based on an existing design.
I helped sort through the legal jargon and clarify the actual difference between e-commerce services the site offers through consulting with the site's owner and usability tests. We ultimately were successful in getting more traffic to the more desirable service (meaning more expensive and higher value).
This site and IllinoisDivorce.com (above) share the same e-commerce functionality, so I developed it in a way that shows the partnership between the two sites while keeping the branding of that individual site.
This site involved using ASP and Authorize.net.
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Sketchpad
Luxury home plans and e-commerce.
- Role:
- Front-end Develop
(Designed by Highland Group, Grand Rapids, MI) - Challenge:
- This site sells luxury home plans, so all home illustrations, floor plans, and detail images had to be converted and displayed perfectly from source images; the most challenging being complex vector CAD files. I worked closely with an excellent SEO company, the site designer, and creative director. I visually integrated the shopping cart third-party package.
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House Confessions with Homie the House.
Promotion and documentation of touring art installation.
- Role:
- Art Direct & Development
- Challenge:
- The purpose of this art installation is to create a dialog among students about college drinking. The site's purpose is to continue this dialog online, promote future installations, and document past installations; all to generate interest and funding to make this a permanent touring project.
I worked with a designer to make a design that solved the intended functions of the site. I built it to be easily updated by the project curator.
Retired Sites
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Kalamazoo Public Library
- Role:
- Design and Development
- Design Challenge:
- To create a design consistent with the bright, bold, and colorful use of refracting light in the architectural design of the library, created in collaborated by artist Michael Hayden.
- Functional Challenge:
- To develop it simply so the library staff can easily edit their sections.
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Kalamazoo Public Library - Teen and Children Sites
- Role:
- Design and Development
- Challenge:
- To give these section of the site their own identity, attractive to their age group, while feeling connected to the library's main site.
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Reading Together 2004-2007
Promotional site for annual community book club and reading program.
- Role:
- Design and Develop Template
- Site Description:
- A community reading program put on by the Kalamazoo Public Library.
- Challenge:
- To create a design consistent with the feel of the book's content, cover, and other promotion material produced by the library. To make finding events quick and easy from any page.
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Kalamazoo Public Library - Reader’s Corner
Community reading program and events.
- Role:
- Design and Develop Template
- Description:
- A collection of events and resources by the Kalamazoo Public Library.
- Challenge:
- To bring together many diverse programs and events into an intuitive navigation. It also needed to be flexible to always show new events and changing content. In addition, I designed the logo.
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The Red Lemon Store & Capitol Records Promotion
Hip-hop fashion e-commerce online store.
- Role:
- Design and Development
- Description:
- A promotion for contest winners of a special promotion between Capitol Records and The Redlemon Store.
- Challenge:
- To capture the feel of the featured recording artist as well as the participating fashion clothes store.
