-Charles Kettering
Hi, I’m Garry, a Senior UI/UX Designer living in Savannah, GA and working for Tektonux based in Huntsville, Alabama. I am also an illustrator and educator having taught a wide variety of Design and illustration courses at the college level. Although I’m currently spending my days mostly making stuff in the DOD space, I previously spent nearly five years working on navigation and infotainment in the automotive space. I have designed and illustrated for a wide variety of companies including Marvel Comics, UpperDeck, DC Comics, Cryptozoic Entertainment, Tyco, Meridian Merchant Services, NNG and many others. I hold an MFA in 2D design and have experience in UX/UI Design, Print & Web Design, Illustration and education. Click the images for more information about how they were made and the part I played in making them.
You can email me at: me@garrymckee.com
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PROCESS
Exploration
Projects begin with meetings to discuss the subject matter, existing assumptions, goals and audience. Questions and research are the dominant focus from the start with the intent of framing a clear design problem prior to suggesting a solution.
Results
- A clear problem
- Identified stakeholders
- Established timeline
- Creative Brief
Ideation
Sketching and writing thoughts about the problem are the primary techniques used to identify solutions in this phase of development. It is common to go back and forth between Ideation and Exploration in the creative process.
Results
- Sketches of possible solutions
- Notes regarding possible solutions
- Workflows
Evaluation
Presentation of suggested solutions and further refinement of the design problem should occur in this phase. The result may be to move to the Design phase or going back to either the Ideation or Exploration phases depending upon the stakeholder review.
Results:
- Meeting
- Agreement on intended solutions
Iteration
Refining sketches to a higher resolution clarifies issues not addressed or adequately considered in earlier phases while providing stakeholders with deliverables to evaluate.
Results
- Digital drafts of the design solution
- Rough prototypes
Presentation
The final phase of a project is the execution and presentation of the deliverables.
Results
- Production ready graphics
- Prototoypes
- Documentation
ABOUT
I believe a lot of things:
- The ability to learn is the the single most important and desirable skill.
- Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.
- To make something fun or funny is almost always an improvement.
- A well defined problem is half solved.
- Design serves us best by providing solutions to problems.
- Seeking truth rather than originality in our work is more likely to yield both.
- Simple ain’t easy.
- The borrower is slave to the lender.
- “Stuff” makes life, and design, more complicated.
- Happy is inferior to meaningful… so is cool.
*The picture of my desk feels like a more honest representation of me than a psuedo-serious headshot.