Donna Lichaw

Apartment Therapy

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:23:44 +0000

I have worked on several projects with Apartment Therapy – a group of home design blogs and websites with over 2.5 million visitors a month. I helped a small team of editors, marketers, and developers to conceptualize, design, and build out new site features and products.

The Porch Project (MFA Thesis)

admin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:53:55 +0000

The Porch Project is an interactive social history of the American Front porch. Using GPS, maps, photos, video, audio, text, online communities, and open web APIs, I transpose the history of a material object onto the landscape of modern American cities. This project was originally completed as my MFA thesis at Northwestern University’s School of Communication [...]

The New School / Parsons

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:04:27 +0000

As principal creative on several large projects, I handled all interaction design, strategy, and information architecture, while managing a small team, including a visual designer and web developer. The largest project I managed was the existing website for Parsons School of Design as well as the discovery/research stages of a large-scale redesign. I also managed websites [...]

Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:00:00 +0000

At The New School, I managed the website for Eugene Lang College, the university’s liberal arts school. I worked on all aspects of user experience design, including overseeing usability issues, improving information architecture, and drafting interaction design specifications for all new site features.

The New School for Jazz

admin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Content assessment and editorial/asset tracker. View website

Sitcom Suburbs

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:06:47 +0000

This project sets out to explore and reconstruct the post-war American sitcom suburb based on the spatial and mental models of the participatory televisual experience. Splicing together frames from popular sitcoms into panoramic landscapes and quicktime VR models, these views attempt to give a cohesive vision to what is otherwise constructed through vision and memory. While [...]

The Pill Project

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 01:39:04 +0000

I developed this prototype along with Sean Zehnder (who did all of the hard-core coding) to explore the relationship between identity construction and the American pharmaceutical industry. First, we created little videos that illustrate a few reasons Americans use some common drugs. Click on a video as many times as you want to fill up your [...]

Nerve.com

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:29:50 +0000

As Senior Designer at Nerve.com, I was responsible for daily production of a website with over 1.2 million unique visitors per month. In addition to managing and producing minisite campaigns for outside clients, such as Sony Pictures Classics and Capitol Records, I designed hundreds of editorial graphics for feature stories. Here’s [...]

Capitol Records

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 04:00:14 +0000

I designed and produced this minisite for a contest co-sponsored by Nerve.com and Capitol Records who were promoting the release of a new Liz Phair album.

Skyy Vodka

admin — Fri, 02 May 2003 21:57:08 +0000

Design and sitebuilding Sleek, simple, straight-forward…I designed and built this microsite for a Skyy Vodka online film competition.