https://drdonlevan.com/portfolio-summary daily 0.75 2015-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425315104123-PMMLOZP3ISG18Q3QZG0T/Starter_Solutions_overview.png Portfolio Summary - FileMaker Starter Solutions Client: Apple, Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425315104123-PMMLOZP3ISG18Q3QZG0T/Starter_Solutions_overview.png Portfolio Summary - FileMaker Starter Solutions Client: Apple, Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425315169560-GSY8YQO6VZH6NSNU3N9J/Inspector_and_Assets.png Portfolio Summary - FileMaker Custom Styles Client: Apple, Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425315252488-5F1XMO8RL5F74065LZHG/graphic_tours.jpg Portfolio Summary - FileMaker Getting Started Tour Client: Apple, Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425315346234-G1CONAEPI1Q0XD0XA9VF/1_Search_CardView.png Portfolio Summary - The Legislative Directory Client: The Advocacy Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425315417179-LNPMTIO7XLQU379MX2CR/Homepage.png Portfolio Summary - EnergyBox Client: EnergyBox https://drdonlevan.com/ess-a-bagel daily 0.75 2015-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1426222592716-9VD64CG6KM077CABJBXD/2014-11-03+12.34.24.png Ess-a-Bagel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1426222592716-9VD64CG6KM077CABJBXD/2014-11-03+12.34.24.png Ess-a-Bagel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1426222288238-RQRZHQ6RB7TN6QTP95MB/IMG_2743.png Ess-a-Bagel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1426222286309-QVA7FTMG4RITF55D9PV4/IMG_2718.png Ess-a-Bagel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1426222286237-4THTBQSTP21MMPTS8H64/IMG_2717.png Ess-a-Bagel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1426222288294-6O0TU8U4A9MND7ZYVUAB/IMG_2731.png Ess-a-Bagel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1426222284045-EFQ2E9Q3YS8PIB4JDOYM/2014-11-03+12.32.20.png Ess-a-Bagel https://drdonlevan.com/portfolio-1 daily 0.75 2021-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1629082511145-I47RL6UJA6CS0R8F4F9R/image-asset.png Portfolio | Design Projects - CrossBorder Solutions Project: The Ask Fiona Chatbot Designed and product managed the development of an ai driven tax information chatbot that answers hyper localized regulatory questions, provides tax information for jurisdictions from around the world, US states, and Canadian provinces, and performs comparable searches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1629082511145-I47RL6UJA6CS0R8F4F9R/image-asset.png Portfolio | Design Projects - CrossBorder Solutions Project: The Ask Fiona Chatbot Designed and product managed the development of an ai driven tax information chatbot that answers hyper localized regulatory questions, provides tax information for jurisdictions from around the world, US states, and Canadian provinces, and performs comparable searches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1575494966651-4JM8JSHQI7A8JQIWHD17/Lifion.png Portfolio | Design Projects - Lifion by ADP Project: Lifion’s New Design System Partnered with Lifion by ADP’s Head of UX and UX Leads to design and implement Lifion’s first Deign System. During the year long project, I coordinated the work of a team of designers and managed two teams of engineers (in New York, Israel, and India), a three month beta period, and a rollout to internal application development teams and external live clients – on schedule with zero downtime. This project - Replaced the open source components Lifion had used to bootstrap development with a modern, scalable, modular & tokenized styling system. - Established the foundation to support client branding and geographic theming - Polished every UX component - Implemented the design team’s new layout, color, and typography guidelines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1431438362134-RYV2LYSVP3G7AOP7OTPQ/image-asset.png Portfolio | Design Projects - Apple, Inc. Project: FileMaker Script Workspace Project Outcomes: Re-designed the FileMaker platform's scripting editor to make it look and behave more like a text editor, while still supporting the underlying macro-based language; decreased the learning curve for novice builders; and increased the productivity and efficiency of advanced developers. "For advanced developers, the most welcomed change in FileMaker Pro is likely to be the redesigned and renamed “script workplace”—in particular, the ability to enter scripts almost entirely from the keyboard... This change doesn’t make a whit of difference to end users, but FileMaker adepts are going to love it." – MacWorld Review   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425176486828-5UWCQHGU6TL9TBILIBC4/Inspector_and_Assets.png Portfolio | Design Projects - Apple, Inc. Project: FileMaker Custom Styles Project Outcomes: Enabled FileMaker builders to quickly and efficiently design interfaces that are clean, polished, and consistent with end user expectations; and add new elements to layouts while matching an established design. "In the past, I’d have to reformat every single button on every single layout—work that often took hours. With FileMaker 13, I can just redefine the button style and be done in about 30 seconds. For the first time in my life, I know what Renee Zellweger was thinking when she told Tom Cruise to stop talking in that famous scene in Jerry Maguire — ‘You had me at ‘custom styles.’” – MacWorld Review   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425249076072-JNOYIXSIA7KMKJYUJM37/image-asset.png Portfolio | Design Projects - Apple, Inc. Project: FileMaker Starter Solutions Project Outcomes: Designed starter solutions that showcased the capabilities of the FileMaker platform and enabled business owners to solve real world business problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425176210247-PUMO3DIZE0T1UR96KLBL/graphic_tours.jpg Portfolio | Design Projects - Apple, Inc. Project: FileMaker Getting Started Tour Project Outcomes: Designed an onboarding guide that orients new users to the FileMaker platform and encourages established users to to extend their development efforts to IOS and the browser. "I've just downloaded the latest build and automatically it opened the Getting Started window. I'm amazed with the simplicity and design, congratulations to you and your team.” – Customer email to Heather Winkle, Director of User Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425266774355-J5VHBEHDXBWK60KXIF9I/1_Search_CardView.png Portfolio | Design Projects - The Advocacy Institute Project: The Legislative Directory Project Outcomes: Designed and prototyped a web application that that will provide grass root organizations (that cannot afford lobbyists) the information necessary to influence targets and secure and schedule the meetings necessary to win legislative campaigns. Armed with the documentation and protytpes created in this project the Advoacy Institute was able to secure funding, hire a development team, and launch the application. Read more... https://drdonlevan.com/advoacy-institute daily 0.75 2016-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425222202383-OV53S0K7DFBK54NMSN4L/1_Search_CardView.png Advocacy Institute | Galley - The Advocacy Institute Legislative Directory Client: The Advocacy Institute Project Goals: Create a web-based, easily mined database that will collect and organize the enormous amount of information scattered throughout New York State government websites, organizations’ internal spreadsheets, institutional memory, and resources like the Advocacy Institute’s intensive course; provide entities that cannot afford lobbyists information about who the power brokers are, who works for them, and how to target the correct elected officials and legislative staff for a particular issue; liberate organizations to spend more time building relationships and have substantive conversations with the legislature to advance their advocacy goals; and Inform tactics to the point of transforming strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425222202383-OV53S0K7DFBK54NMSN4L/1_Search_CardView.png Advocacy Institute | Galley - The Advocacy Institute Legislative Directory Client: The Advocacy Institute Project Goals: Create a web-based, easily mined database that will collect and organize the enormous amount of information scattered throughout New York State government websites, organizations’ internal spreadsheets, institutional memory, and resources like the Advocacy Institute’s intensive course; provide entities that cannot afford lobbyists information about who the power brokers are, who works for them, and how to target the correct elected officials and legislative staff for a particular issue; liberate organizations to spend more time building relationships and have substantive conversations with the legislature to advance their advocacy goals; and Inform tactics to the point of transforming strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425222202490-V0ALU1K18MUH6238MY0D/2.5_ListView_Popover_Mike+Genaris.png Advocacy Institute | Galley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425222202828-L6CPSBNF2RG5HY6KPJJL/6_DetailView_MikeGinaris_Extended.png Advocacy Institute | Galley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425222202689-SUPYFFFT6G6TEIKT6VAI/6.5_StaffView_MIchaelGinaris%27sStaff.png Advocacy Institute | Galley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1425222202877-Z6Q03Z5GMKTP033U7JIK/8_RelationshipView_DavidRosen.png Advocacy Institute | Galley https://drdonlevan.com/logos daily 0.75 2015-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1424918968084-2G60Y8WG31MIS77ONIAZ/Apple-Logo-Grey.png Logos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1424918968084-2G60Y8WG31MIS77ONIAZ/Apple-Logo-Grey.png Logos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1424919372610-4EPS8FZ2KOBIAXISYYS9/fm_logo.png Logos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1424919623834-TPDJ183PJD5AOAJOC576/vanguard-Logo-and-Tag_cropped.png Logos https://drdonlevan.com/design-studio daily 0.75 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1631496201589-X3SPXM8REV151CVMVG05/Screen+Shot+2021-08-15+at+10.14.18+PM.png Portfolio | Trainings and Conferences - The Business Design Seminar A three month, online, small cohort, business design training for new entrepreneurs. “Don’s clearly defined process meant that we always knew what the next step was, why it was important, and most importantly how to execute it. ” — James Schaffer, Co-Founder, Shaffer-Williams Llc. | The Advocacy Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1631496201589-X3SPXM8REV151CVMVG05/Screen+Shot+2021-08-15+at+10.14.18+PM.png Portfolio | Trainings and Conferences - The Business Design Seminar A three month, online, small cohort, business design training for new entrepreneurs. “Don’s clearly defined process meant that we always knew what the next step was, why it was important, and most importantly how to execute it. ” — James Schaffer, Co-Founder, Shaffer-Williams Llc. | The Advocacy Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e95eeae4b0440df7a5c0ed/1631496237243-XIY5RI0750U1C6O2077P/The_Design_Studio_and_The_Design_Studio_%E2%80%94_Vanguard_Custom_Software.png Portfolio | Trainings and Conferences - The Product Design Seminar A three-day experiential training in design process and technique "Over nearly two decades of database development I've informally picked up countless fragments of design knowledge. 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