I worked with Los Angeles startup, Motiv, to develop interface designs for a white-label in-device application store running on top of Intel's Moblin OS.

This is an interface design for one of Aigo's mobile internet devices (MIDs) running the Moblin OS with WiMax connectivity.

Tuenti is Spain's largest social network, receiving more traffic in the country than Google. When the boys at Tuenti asked me what a co-branded Android device might look like, I decided to show instead of tell!

José-Luis Orozco is the country's most respected bilingual educator, children's author and recording artist. His team asked me to redesign his website in preparation for an upcoming national promotional tour.

This is a quick comp I put together to show how the ConvoCast web app might translate to an app on a mobile device like Google's Android phone.

As part of a recent round of funding, Los Angeles startup MBA Interact asked me to deliver a comprehensive user experience audit of their complex MBA recruiting and matching application. As a result, I delved into the product and presented a 21-page document outlining immediately implementable changes that would greatly improve user experience and app communication for each class of user (students, employers, and university career service members). The changes addressed things like consistency, user-centered language for labeling systems, and interface best practices.

While working at Los Angeles startup, ShareNow, I built comprehensive interface comps for a lightweight blog and forum system that would share elements to ease the load on developers. The designs allow for user page background customization. Unfortunately these never made it to production.

I worked with ConvoCast to redesign the interface of their white-label embeddable audio-blogging app, which is targeted at traditional radio networks. Complete with the redesign, I built them a fully cross-browser compliant and W3C-valid XHTML/CSS frontend that is easily 'skinned' and dynamically implemented in either large-width or small-width format. In addition to interface design and markup, I helped the team implement agile development practices and served as product owner for post-iteration releases.

In addition to being the web's premier online resume builder, Resume Think is my fourth self-financed web app. In a sharp departure from typical online resume builders, Resume Think focuses on the web user's final visual product. Through the site, users can build and style their resume, then download or email their Adobe Reader (PDF) formatted resume. Resume Think patrons also have access to their 30-page Ultimate Resume and Job Manual, which provides proven resume writing advice and job finding tips.

Asesor Seguros, Spain's leading online car insurance search engine, asked me to design new landing pages for their Google Adwords campaign. This design focuses on user acquisition and brand impact.

News Positive was created to promote positive change in news presentation. The site provides simple access to a most informative cross-section of news information from around the world. The site's custom php backend is another Volta Media innovation. Special thanks to Dustin for all the help!

Reinvention and visual communication are at the core of this web project. As a self-promotional site it sets the new standard for artist development and marketing.

Because of the ever-present need for a high impact online identity, Los Angeles artist Amanda Ross-Ho requested a complete re-design of her existing exhibition site. Amanda needed to better show her ideas on the web. Her colorful site utilizes her thorough documentation and intriguing social compositions to present a dynamic body of work.

Mark from Feng Shui My Way needed a fresh online identity for his new feng shui consulting company. Feng Shui My Way caters to a diverse clientele from celebrity elitists to business executives to rock hipsters. The organic site reinforces the look and energy of the company.

Michael Ned Holte is a monthly contributor to Artforum magazine. He is also a regular contributor to Frieze magazine and countless other elite artist catalogues and releases. Michael is one of the hardest-working critics in contemporary art and will be remembered alongside history's indelible art critics and historians. His site focuses on presenting his writing in a clean and consistent format, eliminating any clutter between reader and writing.