Hi! My name is

Corey Gravelle

I design & develop digital solutions to real problems

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freelance

In recent years, many projects have kept me busy, through independent contracts and as the lead UI/UX designer at lowercase productions. Clients have included Degenkolb, CleanPowerSF, sf.gov, SFO, SF BART, SFPW, SF OCII, SFPUC, Sonoma County, TJPA, Valley Clean Energy, BABEC, Ameren, and others. Jobs have ranged from traditional to artistic: designing and building websites of various budgets, completing ADA audits and remediation, managing large scale content updates, interactive mini-applications, motion graphics, wayfinding kiosk interface design, and others.

I've completed website rebuilds utilizing frameworks like Squarespace, Wordpress, or headless infrastructure via Contentful & Angular, maintained backends built with Nest.js & Rails, and utilized project management tools like Asana and the Google suite to stay on budget. Such varied work requires a mix of design, development, and project management, each influencing the others, and with one consistent goal in mind: a satisfied client who's proud of what we created together.

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spotsaga.com

the problem: There should be a better way to discover location-based content - without switching apps or platforms with every topic. On the flip side, content generators should be able to reach an audience based on their interest in the content location.

‍the solution: A map-based search interface for discovering posts and collections by location, coupled with an intuitive content editor for creating posts or editing community-supported data, provides an elegant solution for both content creators and content seekers.

Travel bloggers, small business owners, and other content creators post online and share with the world, and are often looking for a local audience - tourists, locals, or others that have interest in the posted location. Map based platforms as we know today offer a narrow focus, with limited results: only hiking trails, only businesses, only certain articles.
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Spotsaga will aim to put locals first and allow users to democratically determine what should and shouldn’t be publicized about their locality. To encourage high quality content, a point system will reward community contributors with benefits, while limiting the reach of spammers and unverified content.
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With endless content opportunities and options for future extensions, I believe that in time this project could be the go-to resource for everything location related, and evolve into the story of anywhere.

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meetyl.com

I was the lead designer and junior developer for Meetyl, a startup that facilitated targeting, meeting planning, and roadtrip logistics for company representatives and investment professionals.

the problem: In-person meetings between investors and company reps typically go to the highest bidder, often different from those the company rep would most benefit from, which regularly leaves smaller investment firms out of the opportunity altogether.
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the solution: Meetyl provided a platform with tools for both sides of the table: investor targeting and logistical planning tools for company reps, and methods for smaller investment firms to be seen based on their expressed interest and investment sector overlap.

In my first truly hybrid designer & developer position, I acted as translator between the software and business development teams. The daily assignment was to compromise: satisfying both the content and feature requests from the business side, as well as time and resource constraints on the dev side. Design simplicity was a common solution, aiming to create polymorphic components that could be modified slightly and reused for different purposes throughout the site.

Less than two years after kickoff, as the platform was showing traction with steadily increasing active users from both sides, Meetyl was acquired by the corporate governance firm Glass, Lewis & Co.

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roots

In the early years (2010-13) I completed a number of freelance jobs as both designer and developer ranging from small artist/musician portfolio websites, to websites for businesses and nonprofits. Some unique examples include loading animations made in Flash, an early image-mapped portfolio navigation, and my first experiment with parallax - a navigation header that simulates rolling fog at mouseover. My first non-trivial personal coding project was an audio editing GUI created with MatLab, which used a canvas to enable grouping, stretching, and freeform placement of audio clips for experimentation via visualization.

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about me

I've always been a maker, and from around 2013, the web has largely been my canvas. I spend my days wearing any combination of design, development, and project management hats - each with its own insight into the possibilities, constraints, and best practices of full stack app and website development.

On weekends you'll likely find me outside, keeping up with the garden, hiking, cycling, paddling, climbing, or camping - refueling for another week of long hours in the home office.

I've designed, deployed, and rebuilt many websites so far, and often have the bandwidth for additional part-time or contract based work. But enough about me, what are you creating or dreaming of? Send me a message if you could use a hand, or just to say hi 👋

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TypeScript

Angular

RxJS

Node.js

HTML5

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Ruby

Rails

Sidekiq

PostgreSQL

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NGINX

Digital Ocean

Figma

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Nest.js

Webflow

Wordpress

Squarespace

Contentful

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