darren halstead

Jaguar Land Rover

Virtually all of the work I did at JLR remains bound by NDA. Some work can be shown in private, because the projects were cancelled.

I did interaction design for a project that eventually became the Land Rover Comfort Controller App. The app istelf is a bit rough around the edges, but the interactions are as I specified. The app was released two years after I did initial design. Once the app was designed in Portland, it moved to offices in the UK to be readied for production. It was released in spring of 2018.

Land Rover Comfort Controller App

This app allows rear-seat vehicle occupants to control the rear seat comfort functions (HVAC, heated/cooled seats, massage).

iGrafx

iGrafx Dashboards

iGrafx Dashboards allow customers to view many things about their Enterprise Model in one place.

Japanese Text Support

iGrafx has customers all around the world. To better support the cultural needs of our customers I worked to use new CSS3 features to support the appropriate display of native text wherever possible. This also shows some of the responsive design work I did.

Enterprise Modelling

The heart of the iGrafx product is enterprise modelling. This is one type of enterprise object page.

Web Diagrams

Much of the work done to create an enterprise model also involves diagrams of processes. This is an early design for an web-based diagram editor.

Reporting Engine

I designed a system that allowed users to query their enterprise models to generate various reports.

User, Group and Role Management system

Administrative users need a way to manage users, groups and security roles. This is part of the system I designed.

AutoBidMaster

AutoBidMaster Mobile Concept

Mobile is a large percentage of traffic. This was one of the possible solutions under consideration.

AutoBidMaster Shipping Calculator

ABM offers help to users who want to ship the vehicles they win at auction. This shipping calculator will help sell shipping by better showing the value of what the user is ordering.

AutoBidMaster Parts Product Detail Page

I was asked to come up with what it might look like if ABM were to offer parts to users. This is what I delivered.

Work Samples

Job Interview Samples

These are samples I have worked on for potential employers. There were not for Kaiser, but Kaiser was the website I was directed to look at. I started as I sometimes do, with a hand-sketched wireframe.

MotoSport

MotoSport "Storefront" Wireframe

This is an example of a wireframe I created. The wireframe serves as a first step before a high fidelity mockup in many projects. This wireframe is meant to solve issues we found on our "storefront" pages during user testing.

MotoSport Home Redesign

I designed a new main landing page. The content of the page reflects a new corporate strategy adding focus on generating more unique content.

MotoSport Megamenu

We rolled out a new megamenu to help the user find product faster. User tests have shown the menu to be effective.

MotoSport Blog Redesign

As the company chose to have an increased focus on original content, the blog redesign was started. This design for a blog category page allows for advertising and content discovery.

MotoSport "Enthusiast" Footer

MotoSport has a very niche market. With this footer we're trying to give a more "enthusiast" feel to the website.

MotoSport Mobile

MotoSport Mobile OEM Shopping Experience

MotoSport Mobile is an ever evolving project. The first version of the mobile site was very basic, to prove the concept. We've continued to upgrade it to add more functionality. This is the OEM product listing page concept.

MotoSport Mobile Version 2

The original mobile version of MotoSport was a stop gap measure. Not everyone was convinced mobile was as essential to the business as it proved to be in the year after we launched the mobile site. The redesign was to build upon the success of the first version while adding the functionality we didn't have time to address last year. The examples here are the primary navigation (where orange represents an icon yet to be designed), the product listing page and the cart slider.

MotoSport Online Return Concept

This was a concept design for what an online returns process might look like. The project was shelved.

MotoSport.com Checkout Optimization

I am tasked with increasing MotoSport's ecommerce metrics (primarily conversion rate and average order value). A key component of this is to create a better flowing checkout process. This is my vision for an optimized checkout flow.

Motorcycle-USA and Motorcycle-Superstore

Motorcycle-USA Redesign Concept

In my final weeks at Motorcycle-USA I began working on the redesign project for the content side of the business. These were very early phase mockups that went unused after I left.

Motorcycle Superstore

The director of user experience was responsible for the overall look of the Motorcycle Superstore redesign. As the junior user interface designer I was responsible for individual pages and site components. The brands page you see below was a design that was never used. The item multiview modal and the mobile site are currently in use.

Motorcycle Superstore Mobile

I was tasked with designing a mobile version of Motorcycle Superstore that functioned without javascript and had minimal images.

Motorcycle Superstore Application

I designed a new online application for Motorcycle Superstore.