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Building Kind User Experiences

User Kind is the work and portfolio of Cory Shaw. I craft exceptional user experiences though the process of user centered design. Learn More →

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Improving Your App Store Rating →

If you're an app developer, your app's rating is the lifeblood of your app's success. I wrote an article over at Mobile Orchard th ...

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About

I established User Kind out of my passion to make the internet a user friendly place. My core principal is to make web applications work hard so that users don't have to. This means that I dig deep into understanding the behavior of your users and the products that they use so that I can put the right things in the right places at the right time. The measurable results of a user friendly application can improve your conversion rates, profit, customer retention, word-of-mouth, frequency of use, and many other factors.

With over 15 years of experience making the internet a better place, I have the core knowledge and skills required to make your product the best it can be. I have served and delivered for the world's top brands, technology startups, and small businesses.

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Services

I help startups design great user experiences around great ideas.

When you’re a startup, making design mistakes can be costly. I’ll help you get it right the first time.

  • Usability Testing
  • Interaction Design
  • User Experience Design
  • Analytics
  • Creative Copywriting
  • Screencasting
  • HTML/CSS/JS Dev
  • Wireframing
  • Information Architecture

User Centered Design is the methodology I use to iterate on designs. This allows user feedback to fuel what quickly becomes an excellent user experience.

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Wordpress

Everything from theme design to a fully customized site design powered by Wordpress, I can help you bend the world's most versatile CMS to your will.

  • Custom Theme Design
  • Installation
  • Custom Site Design
  • Hosting
  • Custom Blog Design
  • Maintenance

À la carte service snacks

Don't need the whole package? No problem. Here's a list of one-off services I offer:

  • Print/Graphic Design
  • Logo Design
  • Website Design
  • HTML/CSS/JS Dev
  • Usability Testing
  • Site Review / Heuristic
  • Screen Casting
  • Creative Copywriting
  • Competitive Analysis
  • PHP/Rails/ColdFusion
  • SEO

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CrowdTube.tv

CrowdTube.tv

CrowdTube.tv is a fun way to experience trending YouTube videos. Videos are gathered based on what the crowd thinks is the best and displayed back-to-back like a never ending TV show.

AppifyWP Wordpress Theme

AppifyWP Wordpress Theme

AppifyWP is a premium Wordpress theme for iPhone and iPad developers to promote their iOS apps. In just a few clicks developers can get a stunning site up and running to market their app.

P.F. Chang's Hawaii Site Redesign

P.F. Changs Hawaii

P.F. Chang's Hawaii needed a Hawaiian style spin-off of their corporate brand, as well as a menu and CMS that they could easily update regularly. Using Menumill I was able to build a CMS-backed site wrapped in a completely custom design.

Chi.mp Homepage Redesign

chi.mp Homepage Redesign

chi.mp's → homepage went through a complete overhaul from the bottom up to achieve one main objective: increase registration conversions. The end result was A/B tested against the original design and quickly showed a 34% increase in registrations.

iLovePhotos Marketing Screencast

iLovePhotos Marketing Screencast

When Blue Lava Technologies launched iLovePhotos →, they needed a marketing video to clearly introduce it to the world. With a week to go before launch, I threw together a script, dusted off my recording equipment, and polished it off the night before launch at DEMO Fall →.

Kindfish

Kindfish.com Site Design

Kindfish → is a social photo sharing website that was in need of a fresh user friendly design. After a month of design and css/html/javascript coding, we launched an innovative ui for browsing and sharing photos.

Damian Marley Music

Damian Marley Album Promotion Website

Damian "Jr Gong" Marley's → website needed a fresh look for his award winning new album, "Welcome To Jamrock". Utilizing a CSS based layout and the artwork from the cover, the end result was a fresh new look and helped Damian break new boundaries in his musical success.

iLovePhotos Icon

iLovePhotos Software Icon

iLovePhotos → needed an icon that represented their mac software. Mac software icons have a reputation for being simple and beautiful, so I took that lead and created the bold and shiny iLovePhotos heart icon.

Marley Legend Book Promotion

Marley Legend Book Promotion

While working on BobMarley.com →, the Marley Legend book was released and I was tasked with designing and coding a page to help promote the book.

Lodging.com Orbitz Integration

Lodging.com Orbitz Integration

During my time working at Lodging.com →, they were acquired by Orbitz →. I worked with the Orbitz team in Chicago to integrate Lodging.com onto the Orbitz platform with a design that preserved the Lodging.com brand, but fit within the guidelines of the Orbitz requirements.

Yahoo Travel Packages Promotion

Yahoo Travel Packages Promotion

Yahoo Travel → needed a landing page to promote their vacation packages. Working within their design guidelines, I delivered a clean landing page that performed very well for their targeted traffic.

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