Nice to meet you, I'm John Roderick. I'm a Visual Designer and User Experience practitioner by day. Nights and weekends though, I turn into a Tottenham Hotspur-loving, martini-drinking, kiddo-chasing poor excuse for a golfer. I'm also a graduate student at DePaul University, studying Human-Computer Interaction. It's been a challenging but extremely rewarding experience and I look forward to strengthening my UX knowledge and capabilities.
See What I DoI love the challenges of crafting beautiful and engaging user experiences in the mobile space. I enjoy all aspects of the mobile design process, from sketching, wireframing and prototyping through high fidelity mockups and asset production.
I design and code a variety of online projects, from landing pages to responsive websites and email design. I have extensive experience translating my visual creations into clean and valid HTML & CSS. I even have enough Javascript / JQuery knowledge to make me dangerous, as Iceman would say.
I'm a design nerd through and through, so naturally data visualization and form layouts get me giddy. I've done quite a bit of work in the financial space, including trading and banking interfaces and financial data displays. Who doesn't love an awesome chart?
My original love, I still enjoy designing for print. You name it, I've done it all; identity, brochures, large run print ads, newsletters, direct mail, promotional posters, business cards and plenty more. I also secretly love the smell of freshly printed material. Maybe not so secretly, actually.
Things are always changing and there's always something new. Get in touch if you want to see more of anything!