Designing for an Audience in Security

For a while, I served as the sole designer for the application security startup. nVisium. I led all the design efforts for the company — ranging from web front-end development, branding, to media editing and production.

(And this is also where I discovered my passion in privacy & security.)

WEBSITE Iterating on the Company Website

Working with our Director of Engineering, I designed and developed the front-end portion of the company's website, moving it from the generic Bootstrap 3 template and into my custom layouts. This spanned across two major iterations and many minor feature additions over time.

By introducing a new set of mobile-friendly layouts and information architecture, I managed to improve the loading speed by four folds.

(If you're curious about how the website looked like before the redesign, here's a link to an archived version that was captured just before my arrival.)

GRAPHICS Branding and Visuals

To help market the company's brand, I created a mascot that's used across various digital and print materials — whether it's a victorious pose on a t-shirt that's given out to attendees of our expert training, or a troubled look when website visitors stumbled upon a missing page.

Without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to nVisbot.

My security colleagues also conduct research on industry trends as a part of their work. If there are interesting data points or findings, I try to capture them in the form of an infographic or visualization, so to add some more flavor to the report blog post or demo video.

It's all about adding some fun for the folks in the field and making serious topics more digestible for the average audience.

A section from the "Dating Securely in the Mobile Age" infographic
And how about a cross-site scripting themed holiday card?