Skill Set
Designing to delight, using the following:
- HTML5
- CSS3/SCSS
- Bootstrap
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Sketch
- Story Maps
- Creativity
- Visual Engagement
- Intelligent Play
- Collaboration
- Leadership
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
—Henry David Thoreau
Portfolio
BLOTTO
Cocktail Card Game Design—one combines ingredients to build a cocktail, i.e., a hand. The deck back is designed to resemble a fan of palms when multiple cards are held. The alcohol cards are designed to resemble a label, yet fit stylistically with other ingredient cards.
Blotto Card Back Design
Drink Ingredient Card Design
Drink Ingredient Card Design
Silver Lake Creative
This is a designer's repository of coding projects created in Visual Studio while learning to program. These projects are my attempts to design in code.
Color Game
Patatap Clone
To Do List
esri maps
Esri has amazing mapping software. I created these story maps while learning how to use it.
5 Gyres Story Map
Sun Valley Ski Run Map
Neutra Colony Map
DEEP6
UI and UX design for a physician assist AI software developed by Deep6. A doctor could reference a breadth of information how other doctors diagnosed the same symptom(s). So amazing. Another interface I designed for them was a search UI for an AI Module Developer Social Network.
Patient Info Page UI
AI assisted diagnosis page UI
AI assisted diagnosis page UI
Search and Search Results UI
Filter and Search Results UI
User Profile page UI
GoTo v2.0
A Search Engine for Curated Results—This was a dream of some wonderful folks who built the original GoTo.com. Unfortunately this idea didn't take off.
GoTo homepage - iPad
Top curators listing
Top collections listing
MagicLinks
YouTube vloggers use MagicLinks to create click revenue. The links are evergreen and follow the product, not the merchant. I designed the mobile and desktop product user interface and reports as one of the core startup members. This is the brainchild of the fabulous team that developed Chippmunk.
Vlogger rewards revenue report
Vlogger rewards clicks report
Vlogger rewards merchant report
Chippmunk
A coupon search engine site that I redesigned when the original designer ran off to Mexico when the Mayan calendar ended. The site is no longer maintained. In my redesign I modernized the look of the site and created a visual heirarchy for the information dense pages. This and MagicLinks were built with the same fabulous team and were wonderful projects to be a part of.
Homepage Search Design
Search Results Design
About Us Page Rewards Infograpic
Blog UI Design
web site member badges
Black Friday Infographic for Social Media
Internet Brands
A parent company of multiple online properties. I freelanced here and worked on a variety of projects.
Web site design
Web Template Design
Identity Design
Reel Science
This was the result of a film and tech hackathon, sponsored by Film Independent and others. It was a very fun experience. Worked non-stop over a weekend with people I just met. Then my new friends and I got invited to present at the Film Independent conference. So fun!
Moblie App Account Dashboard
Moblie App Project Dashboard
Moblie App Question Forum
Moblie App Info Page
Moblie App Answer Screen
Moblie App Chat
Identity
Identity Design
Key Art Design
T-shirt Design
Identity Design
Identity Design
Identity Design
Surfrider
A Grassroots Environmental Organization Protecting Our Coastlines, of which I was an Executive Committee Member of the West LA / Malibu branch, and the Chair of the South Bay branch. These are just some of the flyers and posters I designed for our many events that I also helped organize and promote. Not shown here is the work of creating the events, managing volunteers, finding sponsors, entertainment, swag, venues, and people to inspire at our events.
Meeting Flyer Design
Meeting Flyer Design
Meeting Flyer Design
Poster Design | Image Colorization
Poster Design
Typographical Poster Design
Yahoo! Search Marketing
Organized like an in-house ad agency, the process of designing company solutions here was highly professional. I was hired as an international designer when then GoTo, then Overture was launching in Germany. My time working in Berlin as a designer helped me stand out from 300 other candidates.
Yahoo! Search Marketing direct mail campaign design
Yahoo! Search Marketing 1 2 3 direct mail campaign design
Overture becomes Yahoo! Search Marketing Website Bridge Page
Yahoo! Search Marketing keywords direct mail campaign design
Yahoo! Search Marketing keywords direct mail campaign design
Yahoo! Search Marketing keywords direct mail campaign design
Yahoo! Print Network + Overture
Yahoo! Search Products Flyer
Overture Buying Cycle Flyer
Overture International Case Study
Bovis
A commercial construction development company for which I designed project proposals in print and interactive media. We won a lot of proposals while I worked there. It was fun to assemble something attractive from almost nothing but a picture and a drawing.
Proposal Design
Proposal Design
Proposal Design
Proposal Design
Proposal Design
Interactive CD 3D presentation
Card Design
Christmas Card
eDivvy Holiday Card
New Millenium Card
Water does not resist. Water flows.
—Margaret Atwood
Activity Timeline
How ado design has evolved.
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2019
ASP.NET Core MVC Visual Studio
Development
Team member of an online incubated business with, and under the guidance of, Westside Websites.
Learning ASP.NET Core MVC full stack web development in Visual Studio as a faithful member and attendee of a weekly meetup with Westside Websites.
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2016
Full Stack (MEN) Development
Development
Upgraded coding skills to better design in code. These include front end technologies, JavaScript, jQuery, SCSS, CSS3, HTML5, and back end technologies, MongoDB, Express, and NodeJS.
Deep 6
Creativity
Designed the user interface for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module developer social network and an AI healthcare software developed by Deep 6.
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2015
GoTo v2.0 UI Design
Design
Designed the mobile and desktop UI for a new GoTo. Initially lost the bid, but won the client after the bid winner proved difficult to work with. The product concept proved difficult to pull off, and the url was sold to goto meeting.
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2014
Ski Condo Vacation Rental Renovation
Creativity
While not online design, this project developed design, project management, and leadership skills. Rated 5 stars by many guests, rent this condo and experience its sublime design influence.
Magic Links
Design
MagicLinks developed out of Chippmunk. As a core team member and art director I designed the mobile and desktop UI of the backend dashboard for link creation, click data, reporting, performance, and profile tools.
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2012
Chippmunk | Internet Brands
Design
Designed the UI for start-up Chippmunk as core team member with ownership options of the start up. While developing Chippmunk, I consulted at Internet Brands, creating the UI and branding for multiple properties.
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2009
Westsite Websites | 20th TV
Design
Developed multiple properties and a proprietary CMS with start up incubator Westside Websites. One client was 20th Television.
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2006
TripAdvisor / Virtual Tourist
Design
Rebranded Virtual Tourist, a TripAdvisor company. Redesigned the website, identity, marketing materials, and coded a lovely online style guide using wiki media.
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2001
Yahoo! Search Marketing | Overture | GoTo
Design
Supported the international market in branding, web, flash animation, and print design. Participated in the rebranding of GoTo into Overture, and the rebranding of Overture into Yahoo! Search Marketing.
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1998
Plutus
Design
Designed EMI's music distribution portal as a part of the web team. Later collaborated with team members in the startups eDivvy, Westside Websites, Chippmunk, and MagicLinks.
About
This portfolio is the work of Anna Donlin who is best described as a technically skilled art director. Anna knows how to build what she designs—this sets her apart from most art directors. She is a designer with the pragmatism of a developer. Anna knows what knobs to turn to tweek technology into captivating designs.
Anna is a student of creativity and how insights reveals themselves. In this pursuit she has learned that travel is a huge influencer of creative insight. Be it across town or overseas, getting oneself in a new environment aids the mind to make new connections. Discovering this helped explain how living overseas in Amsterdam, Cracow, Berlin, and Rio, and adapting to these foreign cultures and languages developed Anna's own creativity.
Previous jobs at Yahoo! Search Marketing, TripAdvisor, Virtual Tourist, Internet Brands, Archimation, and The Berliner Morgenpost also influenced Anna's design aesthetic. And as the Chair Surfrider South Bay and and Excutive Committee member of Surfrider West LA / Malibu Anna gained powerful experience managing and organizing amazing volunteers and events.
Currently Anna is collaborating with Westside Websites—building things in ASP.NET Core MVC using Visual Studio Community, and tracking the process with GitHub. She has also bought and renovated properties she now long-term and vacation rents. This entrepreneurial experience has had a lasting influence on Anna's design aesthetic and work ethic.
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