I took over the site from LamuSoftware and I’ve been managing it on contract, some of it’sinternal logic is private as such I can’t disclose how it works however what I can is I migrated thesite from webfaction to digitalocean and improved the layout from an older desktop only to amore friendlier mobile friendly look.One of the recent updates is a user mode that allows members to post content that’s alsoavailable to other members under a paid subscription model.

The first step was using existing data from the current WordPress site then building a newfrontend design to work with the current data and new information that was added on top of it.From restructuring the content and pages and adding animation to show more with less space,all this added up to interactive user experience.Since its launch, additional features have been added for new products and ideas.

I designed the site based on the interest of what’s important, giving you a first-hand view of whateach chalet offers and how it looks like from multiple angles and available rooms.The booking information is integrated with an online booking system so the calendar shows thebooked dates.There's a variety of differently styled pages with a variety of content, so each page feels new butstill easy and intuitive to navigate through.

The project was to design a job listing site, to eventually integrate some analysis to filter the bestcandidates based on the skills and the job requirements.This was a fresh start so there was no existing site to inherit specs from. Some of the featuresincluded logging in from 3rd party sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedInAll post requests included a csrf token for increased security.To simulate content added on the fly on the page after the process finishes using jQuery at thetime, the post request got back valid Html to add where needed.

I was hired to work with a person who does advertising in places with high traffic of people likemalls, and with flatscreens, with cameras, they wanted a system that can track people and doanalysis on how they react to the content they see on the screen. The people-watching couldhave tailor-made advertising targeting them, for example, if women are watching it can show adstargeting women and a combination of this can be done such as sex, age, and other factors.Using Quvidi: a system that processes the information from a camera using facial recognition andreturns information like the number of people, age, sex, how many are concentrating on thescreen, their mood which can be related to how well they react to the content on the screenwith/without glasses among other features, I integrated the input to a Python script that wouldsend data to their platform used to switch ads and provided a webpage to add the rules for eachad so you can specify which group it targets.

The site was already existing at the time I joined but needed a number of updates to keep itrelevant. This started by moving the movie ticketing system from an iframe and hosted by a 3rdparty to internal and all logic inbuilt. This meant there needed to have a booking system thatshowed the booked seats in the cinema, the ability to select any seat not booked, you canproceed then to pay using a payment gateway then receive your e-ticket as a pdf in your email.The cinema would also get a verification version so they can verify it when you arrive. No printingnecessary, just show it at the attendant and go in.Later on, since they did advertise and listing of events happening in Kenya there came a need tooffer the option to do ticketing for any event that wanted to. This was similar to the ticketing formovies only with a different ruleset like a maximum number of tickets which if left blank wouldmean it had none, type of tickets each with its own unique expiry date.The second priority was designing a mobile site that wasn’t available at the moment. There weretwo options for doing this, either rewrite the current template to work with mobile or use adevice detection tool so the page would use different templates based on the device type,desktop or mobile. We went with the second option at first, to avoid any issues for desktop userswith the intention to move on to the second later on.It also became clear with time the process of selecting the cinema, movie and time took sometime since it involved a back and forth Ajax request. I solved this by having it cache the wholeoutput for all the results at the start so navigation became instant with a single request at thelast step to check if more seats were booked since the page loaded. This essentially made it anoffline-first experience.