The blessing and curse of digital news is its unpredictability. From 2013 to 2015, I tore down, re-envisioned, and re-coded KPCC’s modular content views (article, segment, episode, blog post). Typographic and layout elegance in a vacuum is one thing; doing it when you can’t count on image sizes, image types, content length, embeds, or ad placements is another.

Catharsis is a weird thing. For a long time, I'd found it in an episode of The West Wing's second season. No matter what undesired mood I found myself in, watching Seventeen People would reset me. Once I bought the DVDs, this recourse was effectively free, and eminently repeatable. And so I watched. And watched. Eventually, it hit me that other people might get some catharsis out of this, too. So I started doodling.

Sensitive. Safe. Reassuring. Anonymous. Private. Most marketing-slash-ecommerce websites don’t have to exhibit all these for all users, but Self Collect isn’t like most sites. In mid-2015, I wireframed, designed, front-end coded, and Rails-prepared this groundbreaking at-home-STD-testing company's responsive site. From educating, to reassuring, to deconstructing its unusally complex checkout & results process, Self Collect was a wholly unique — and worthwhile — challenge.