Selected work

Cards and sites that are actually running.

Everything below is live on the internet right now. Open it on your phone; that is where most people will see it. The cards belong to real people, and the sites are self-directed: built to learn, and labelled when the business is made up.

Digital cards

Three cards, three people.

Every card is one page on its own address that opens with a tap, flips to a fuller sheet, and saves to a phone’s contacts in one button. What they look like is drawn from the person.

Jamie MerwinMy own card, opened by my NFC band. Gradient glass, a flick-up throw, and a hidden mini game.Open the card

Adsem MerwinA 2000s skate shoe turned into a card: loud green, a theme song, and a mushroom button to mute it.Open the card

Dana Kowal sampleA made-up food truck owner. Awning stripes, the truck’s logo, and a back face that points at the coming-soon site.Open the card

Three matching digital cards for a made-up food truck's crew: the owner, a line cook and the catering lead, each with call, text, email and save buttons.

Team Cards · working demo

A card for everyone on staff, run from one dashboard.

One card per person holds their name, role and number. A manager decides what every card is allowed to show — weekly promotions, hours, location, an about-me — and can make one exception for one person. Staff fill in their own half.

The picture is a sample crew for the made-up food truck. The working demo runs a fictional pet shop so you can click around without breaking anything, and everything you change stays in your own browser.

Manager dashboard
Flip interaction
vCard export
QR & NFC

Open the dashboard demo Open a customer’s card

The first opens the manager side. The second is what a customer gets when they scan the code — a different person each time you press it.

Demo · a made-up business

Prairie Dog Pierogi Co.

A food truck that opens next spring. Pierogi six to a box, a bison filling, a huckleberry one for dessert.

The business is made up. Dana, the truck, the menu and the phone number are all invented, and the site says so in a strip across the top. It exists to show what a business needs online before it has a door.

Hand-written HTML/CSS/JS
Countdown
Email sign-up
Matching card

Open the site Open Dana’s card

Why a coming-soon site

The months before opening are when people first hear about a business, and the first thing they do is look it up. A Facebook post scrolls away. A page on its own .com says when you open, what you sell and how to hear more, and it is the same address the finished site will live on.

What’s on it

A countdown to opening day. One sign-up, for one email when the truck rolls. The first menu with its prices, the plan for where the truck parks in its first week, and a line from the owner. The phone number is one tap from the top of the page.

It comes as a pair with Dana’s card. The card’s back face points at the site, and the site’s catering panel points at the card. Card first, site when you’re ready, on the same .com.

How it’s built

One hand-written file, no framework and no build step: there is nothing to go out of date and nothing to re-compile when the opening date moves. Its colours, type and logo are its own, not this site’s. On a real job the sign-up delivers to the owner’s inbox; on the demo it says plainly that nothing was sent.

What it is: A demo for a made-up business, labelled as one on every page
Scope: Brand, logo, site and matching digital card
Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Yours would be: Drawn to your business, on your own .com

A whiskey menu on a dark screen: a photographed cocktail fills the right half, with the drink's name, its description and its build listed beside it, and dots along the bottom to step through the other nine.

Self-directed · design & build

The Iron Animal Saloon

A menu for a bar that does not exist. The ten drinks are my husband’s own recipes — his creativity, my practice. I built the menu around them: one drink at a time, full-bleed photograph, the build listed underneath, and arrow keys or a swipe to move along the list.

It answers a real problem all the same. A menu that lives on a page instead of card stock can change the morning a supplier lets you down, and it costs nothing to change.

Hand-written HTML/CSS/JS
Keyboard & swipe
Shopping list
Firebase Hosting

Open the menu

Personal projects

Where the range comes from.

These are the ones I build purely for the pleasure of solving the problem. They are also why a menu page or a booking flow does not intimidate me. All four run in a browser, so you can open one and judge it yourself rather than take my word for it. Each has its own page under /work/games.

Wyrmhoard Keno

A keno build with a verified pay table. The odds on screen are the odds the maths actually produces, checked against a simulation rather than asserted.

Play it About it

Elo’s Hoard

Montana-style video keno on an engraved stone slab. Mark four to ten, twenty drawn, and three coins dropped on numbers you did not pick — where only the second one you collect pays.

Play it About it

Safari Time

A five-reel, ten-line video slot with expanding wilds, and sticky expanding wilds in a free-games feature. The par sheet, the solver and the game all read one config.

Play it About it

Animalism

A side-scrolling brawler. Hand-drawn sprite work, a physics and hit-detection layer written from scratch, and native gamepad support — plug a controller in and it just works.

Play it About it

See all four games

A design system

A complete visual language — tokens, components, templates and its own style guide — written so that anything built with it comes out coherent. It is the discipline behind why a site of mine holds together at page nine.

Documentation

Every project I run keeps a changelog, a versioning scheme and a README that explains its own conventions. It is unglamorous, and it is the reason work I did months ago is still editable today.

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