Visualgui.com

Home
Sites
Motion
Graphics
Info

Simplifying the web experience through crisp design & streamlined interface.

Sketches of Miles

An experimental project combining Miles Davis’s classic works with modern web technologies. Using the browser as the canvas, each page is based off Davis’s cover art and designed using web typography and CSS.

Easy License Renewal

I collaborated with a talented programer to create a fast-and-easy-learning application for an online continuing education provider. We built the system from scratch to cater toward the client’s needs. I was responsible for the front-end design and HTML/CSS. The website offers straightforward and ease-of-use courses to allow students to learn at their convenience.

Helen Alvaré

George Mason University School of Law contracted me to design a personal web site for one of its high-profile faculty members, Helen Alvaré. After speaking with Prof. Alvaré, I knew that I needed to design a site that is simple, elegant to convey both of her professional and religious background. My main task was to handle the visual design. I was not responsible for the HTML/CSS.

iLoveNgocLan.com

After seven years, iLoveNgocLan.com gets a new design and updated codes. The entire site powered by WordPress.

Themes from previous design: Melancholy, Longing

Le Mekong Vietnamese Cuisine

An attractive, sleek and accessible web site for a grand opening Vietnamese restaurant.

Julie Tran Law

Attorney Julie Vien Tran needed a simple, professional and elegant web site with dual languages (English and Vietnamese) to promote her law offices.

GWbusiness Magazine

The George Washington University School of Business needed an online version of its print magazine to be clean, simple, accessible, readable and with an ad spot that would be visible but not distracting.

Brand³

Triple Strength needed a hand in turning its gorgeous design into a blog. I developed the blog using WordPress, customized the layout according to the client’s mockup and added functionalities to suit the client’s needs.

Thirstythenovel.com

Kristin Bair O’Keeffe needed a dark, dramatic, yet hopeful web site to promote her debut novel, Thirsty.

Vassar College Campus Activities

A clean, simple site with bright use of typography for Vassar College’s Campus Activities.

simplexpression.com

An online jewelry design shop run by my wife and me. Our goal is to create simple, elegant jewelries that are not only visually attractive, but also comfortable to wear on a daily basis. To reflect on our products, we wanted a clean, classy site with ease of use. The layout let the products speak for themselves.

tledc.com

A clean, sleek, simple site for Theresa Le’s jewelry designs in Washington D.C.

Vassar College Art Department

A clean, streamlined site that meets the department’s needs.

Vassar College The Office for Fellowships and Preprofessional Advising

An elegant, friendly site that serves as resource for funding possibilities during the undergraduate experience, as well as for study after Vassar.

Vassar College Music Department

The homepage of Music Department web site is designed around a gorgeous shot of the organ and the empty stage to convey that the facility is available for the students to perform and to reach their musical potential.

Vassar College Homepages

I was a part of the web team in redesigning Vassar’s homepage.

Here are of the layouts I designed to showcase Vassar’s picturesque campus: Winter, Students’ Building, Chapel, Fall Landscape, Main Library, Sculpture, Reading Room

Vassar Farm

A green, simple site to match Vassar’s establishment as an ecological preserve for study and research.

Vassar College Office of International Services

A clean, informational site that assists international students and scholars in adjusting to a new culture, and advises in all aspects of college life.

Vassar College Learning & Teaching Center

An attractive, vibrant, informational site that supports the intellectual life of students and faculty at Vassar.

Vassar College Campus Life Office

A clean, simple layout with a playful use of photography for the Campus Life, an office offers educational programs, resources, and student advising to enhance the quality of campus life.

Vassar College Dean of Freshmen

A fresh, clean design with the use of photography at the bottom to balance the heavy text without distracting the useful information.

Vassar College Department of Dance

A clean, dramatic site showcases various techniques, including modern dance, classical ballet, jazz, the Department of Dance offers.

Vassar College German Studies

An edgy, crisp design that communicates the intellectual engaging and innovative learning of German Studies.

Vassar College Development Office

A rich, photo-driven layout with color-coded navigation to differentiate various offices within Development office. The site has been modified a bit after I handed it off to another web developer.

Arts at Vassar

A colorful, four-column page showing off various arts at Vassar. The site has been redesigned, but I keep a copy on my site for display.

Vassar College Palmer Gallery

A small, straightforward site for Palmer Gallery, which locates at the heart of the College Center.

Vassar College Jewish Studies

A clean, typography-based layout with English/Jewish combined navigation.

Vassar College Annual Fund

This photographic-based site was launched at a fundraising time and it was a big hit. The site no longer lives on the Vassar’s server, but I keep a copy on my own site for showcase.

Vassar College Summer Programs

Every summer Vassar hosts about twenty summer programs and corporate conferences – everything from chamber music to events at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, to the Summer Institute for the Gifted, to great theater, and children's sports camps. This simple, straightforward web page is all that you need to find out information about summer programs and events at Vassar.

Vassar College Field Work

A crisp, simply design with typographic incorporated for Field Work, a program that enables students to examine the way the theories and the practical experiences of a particular discipline interact.

Vassar College Community Works

A simple, friendly, easy-to-use site for Community Works, an annual campaign that is funded by donations from employees and students of Vassar College to provide financial assistance to local not-for-profit organizations.

Vassar College Latin American and Latino/a Studies

A simple layout with colorful, playful typography.

Vassar College Powerhouse Theater

A simple, dramatic layout with a Flash intro. The site has been redesigned, but I keep a copy on my site for display.

Vassar College French Department

This photo-heavy site was my first project at Vassar College.