Marina Krutchinsky - User Interface and Experience Designer
OtisWave 2.0
Extranet Interface Redesign
OtisWave 2.0 extranet enables Otis staff, engineers and field technicians to quickly find the information they need to service customers from the company's several hundred thousand pages of procedures, technical drawings and diagrams, newsletters and spare parts information.
Services:
User goals clarification, interaction design, design direction, visual design, front-end (XHTML/CSS) coding
Back-end services: Contegra Systems
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HemOncToday
Medical Community Website Redesign
"Definitive online source for oncology and hematology professionals." A newly launched website offers doctors real-time news, research, and community features such as rss feeds, forums and podcasts. In addition to Web 2.0 functionality, it also features guided search and navigation, custom registration, client data capture and a sophisticated ad-serve mechanism.
Services:
Interaction design, design direction, visual design, front-end (XHTML/CSS/JS) coding
Back-end services: Contegra Systems
Experience Corps*
Non-Profit Website Redesign
Experience Corps - one of many programs spearheaded by Civic Ventures - engages adults 55 and older as literacy tutors for struggling students in public schools. It now counts more than 2,000 members in 23 U.S. cities. The redesigned site improves overall site navigation, makes finding needed information easy and painless, and enables city programs to edit their own data with custom built CMS.
Role: Project management, design direction, interaction design, visual design
* developed while at Civic Ventures
Foundation Center
Fact Finder Application Interface Design
Fact Finder is a free trend tracking application for analyzing 20,000 U.S. foundations. It lets users make grant research faster and more productive. With the ability to instantly access and analyze the financial data of the U.S.'s largest foundations, users can now create statistical reports such as charts, graphs or tables, displaying historical assets, gifts received, expenditures or giving information.
Services:
Interaction design, design direction, visual design, front-end (XHTML/CSS/JS) coding
Back-end services: Contegra Systems
Encore.org*
Book Site Conceptualization
In his latest book Encore: Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Marc Freedman - founder of Civic Ventures, Experience Corps and The Purpose Prize - tells the stories of the encore career pioneers, who are working not only for continued income, but for the promise of more meaning and the chance to do work that matters. The original book website, launched at the time of first edition came out (June 2007) was intended to grow (and has grown!) into a large community/network site and resource directory for "encore careerists".
Role: Concept mapping, interaction design, front-end coding (XHTML/CSS/JS), Drupal theming
* developed while at Civic Ventures
Cornell University
TEEAL Product Interface Redesign
The Essential Electronic Agriculture Library (TEEAL) is a project of Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library in cooperation with over 60 major scientific publishers to create an electronic collection of full-text articles, abstracts and graphics from 140 agriculture science journals. With a redesigned user interface, TEEAL now operates in a Web browser environment and incorporates more advanced search and navigation technology, making searching and browsing faster, easier and more intuitive.
Services: Design direction, visual concept development, front-end (XHTML/CSS/JS) coding
Back-end services: Contegra Systems
The Purpose Prize Innovation Network*
Community Site Design
The Purpose Prize is a multi-year initiative to invest in older social innovators by recognizing outstanding achievements and creating a network of people wanting to use their retirement years for the greater good. It provides five awards of $100,000 each to people over 60 who are taking on society’s biggest challenges. The Innovation Network site was built to bring all Prize winners and fellows together and to spark their inspiration and collaboration.
Role: Design direction, interaction design, front-end coding (XHTML/CSS/JS), Drupal theming
* developed while at Civic Ventures
Carrier Transicold
Multilingual Product Interface Design
Carrier Transicold provides a complete line of industry leading transport temperature control and auxiliary products and solutions. CD-based Lookup Parts Catalog is coming out in three languages (English/French/Spanish) and enables Carrier field engineers and technicians to quickly find and order the spare parts they need from the company's several hundred thousand pages of technical information, drawings and diagrams.
Services:
Interaction design, design direction, visual design, front-end (XHTML/CSS/JS) coding
Back-end services: Contegra Systems
Contegra Systems
Corporate Website Redesign
The nature-inspired site feel and layout highlights Contegra's expanded spectrum of services and solutions while calming clients' worries over tangled technological problems. Once you've come to Contegra, you are in good hands!
Services:
Design direction, visual concept development, front-end (XHTML/CSS/JS) coding
Work
Thanks for stopping by to look at my recent work. My name is Marina Krutchinsky (a.k.a. "webhues"), and I specialize in user-centered iterative interface design/coding for web apps. What you see above is a few projects from the last couple of years. Some of them were done while Web Directing at Civic Ventures but most came under my own "business label" of Webhues Web Productions (you could see more of the older projects there) and in collaboration with awesome programmers of Contegra Systems. Should you wish for some strategic UI/UX advice or hands-on help with your project, do not hesitate to drop me a line. I always try to respond promptly, but when the workload is high it may take a few days.
Availability
Sep. 2009 
Oct. 2009 
Nov. 2009
Dec. 2009
Jan. 2010 
Praise
" Marina is an invaluable resource to our organization. She has an outstanding ability to understand Web design from a user-centric perspective. She understands the subtleties of each market and responds with an appropriately unique design. She repeatedly produces highly professional designs. Marina also brings a strong technical knowledge, excellent management skills and is a pleasure to work with.
" Marina helped take Civic Ventures' Web efforts to a new level, launching our new flagship site, Encore.org, redesigning ExperienceCorps.org and introducing a host of innovative solutions to longstanding challenges within the organization. She did all this with exceptional energy and good humor and an ability to juggle many tasks at once. She was a joy to work with and is sorely missed.
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- Complex information visualization
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- Bridging tech and everything else
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My latest project: TwitterBackgroundsGallery.com
