Problem Solver

Matthew Spellman

Areas Matthew Spellman is Knowledgeable in:

Usability, customer experience, user experience

Techniques Matthew Spellman Uses:

I use a couple of techniques, which I use my own terms for:
Bridging - Figure out what the final experience of a product, and then work to connect it to current reality.
Regifting - Use a similar solution to a problem already solved by a different industry
Incremental - Add features to existing solution

Matthew Spellman's Problem Solving Skills:

  1. information design
  2. marketing communication
  3. usability
  4. software design
  5. product design
  6. user experience
  7. consumer product design

Matthew Spellman's Problem Solving Experience:

  1. - I created on of the best content management systems (AIGA/2006)
  2. - I created new forms for communicating movie details (Netflix/2004)
  3. - I improved the rating controls in side the movie recommendation engine (Netflix/2002)
  4. - I created one of the first stock alert and communication centers (Charles Schwab / 2000)
  5. - I created one of the first web-based website builder (NetObjects/1999)
  6. - I created a single-page identity website design. Which was identical to what MySpace and Facebook had done independantly. (1999)
  7. - I created an improved information design for multi-threaded search results pages (Snap.com/1998)
  8. - I designed one of the first multithreaded news and marketing sites for health care (MarinGeneral/1998)
  9. - I designed newly integrated customer support portal (Harris/1997)
  10. - I designed one of the first multiple vendor retail outlines on a website (IWSC/1997)
  11. - I designed one of the first industry specific web search engines (WebGarage/1996)
  12. - I designed the of the earliest retail web sites (Pacific Eye's & T's/1994)
  13. - I designed a better mortgage pre-qualification and load submission system (Citadel/2006)
  14. - I built one of the first web-based B2B product reference tool (Motorola/2006)
  15. - I built one of the best web-based B2B division portal (AT&T/2007)
  16. - I improved upon the Flight Check-in and Flight Booking system on the web (United Airlines / 2010)