Intel Presentation

Question 1

1 Intro P1

Answer 1

• Hello everyone, my name is Tedford Chan from Vancouver Canada.
• First of all, thank you for having me here, for thinking I am worthy for this position, it really means a lot to me. I am very excited to be here! :)

Question 2

2. Experience P1

Answer 2

• Let me start off telling a little bit about my experience.
• Hopefully I don’t send anyone to sleep :)
• I graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Interactive Arts and Technology

Question 3

2. Experience P2

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• During the time I was still in school, I took some time to work as a coop and worked for company like Ontario Power Generation as an Instructional Designer and Research In Motion as a Visual Designer.

Question 4

2. Experience P3

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• After working at RIM, Ive adapted the fast pace environment, always meeting deadline and be able to handling multiple projects at once. Thats also when I found my passion in doing visual design afterwards.

Question 5

2. Experience P4

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• And by the time I graduated I was already juggling between my 2 part time jobs being a graphic designer and working freelance for clients from doing branding, logo design to doing some event photography.

Question 6

2. Experience P5

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• my most recent experience has been working as a Graphic Designer for an IT company call Absolute Software based in Vancouver, designing marketing collaterals for different global market, working with their partners such as Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo…
• Without further ado, I am just going to start showing some of the work!

Question 7

3. RIM P1

Answer 7

• When I was working at RIM, I was assigned to work with different designers and I was lucky enough to be able to take part of many different projects from smaller scale ones such as re-rendering icons to larger scale projects like actually be able to do some iconography and some UI design.

Question 8

3. RIM P2

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• One of my earlier projects involves heavily in rendering icons and making sure they are pixel perfect for all the different resolution of the different devices out there. At the time I was working there, they were about to do an overhaul update on most of the graphics.

Question 9

4. RIM

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• Here is another example of some of the icon sets that underwent the re-rendering process showed earlier.
• They really want me to understand the idea of ‘pixel perfect’ first
• Then my next assignment got a little more interesting, I was to redesign and revamp all the major emoticons for BBM along with the next release.

Question 10

6. RIM P1

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• This is a dynamic icon they wanted to implement for the next OS, which back then was the OS 5.2. The design goals for this were to allow users to get the essential point by having a quick glance at the icons, and to make the icons look more intelligent
• So this was a concept dynamic icon for the Wifi Connection icon.

Question 11

7. RIM

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• Here is another concept for the dynamic icons for Browser using the globe itself as a show progression, and allow users to see when the page is loaded.

Question 12

8. RIM p1

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• One of the project I had fun working with was to redesign the BrickBreaker Interface. The original interface poses a linguistic reference problem, and localizing it was too difficult, and a graphical solution was requested.

Question 13

8. RIM p2

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• And the goal of it was to find visual representation for each of the 4 previously text-based elements on the UI and we also wanted the new layout to not look like it was just a quick fix to the problem.
• So in the final version here, I added a gap there to distinguish clearly between the current game scores and the hi-score and used icons to replace ammo and lives.

Question 14

9. RIM

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• Here is another look at it for the devices with vertical screens. It didn’t take as long since the design language was base off the horizontal design.

Question 15

11. RIM

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• My biggest achievement while working at RIM was to be able to actually do some iconography design for their OS6 release, mainly for the options and setting screens. And I was actually fortunate enough to be named one of the inventor of a design patent.

Question 16

12. RIM

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• I was responsible for designing and developing a visual style palette and implementing the style throughout the entire options icon sets to maintain unity and consistency

Question 17

13. RIM

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show option screen icons

Question 18

14. RIM

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show option screen icons

Question 19

15. RIM

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show option screen icons

Question 20

16. RIM

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• As you can see here, the difference is quite big, and it definitely looks a lot better.

Question 21

17. RIM

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• Just before I left RIM, I took a big part rendering what they call the Graphical Context Menus icons aka GCM icons. But I think they just named it pop up menus now.

Question 22

18. RIM

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• Basically what it does, is it allow users to quickly access some of the most common actions. And I was responsible for drafting up some quick concepts for whoever that was picking up this project next and the end result is a complex collection of icons.

Question 23

19. Absolute Software

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• While working at Absolute Software as a graphic designer, I was actually hired to act as a bridge between the creative and the web team. One of my biggest project I was asked to work on was to redesign their home page and I was told to just go wild

Question 24

20. Absolute Software

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Here is the first concept.

Question 25

22. Absolute Software

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And the second concept I decided to add a green there, even though there brand color were just blue red and black.

Question 26

24. Absolute Software

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- This is the current front page of it as of now, they turned out really like the green and decided to adapt that as their secondary company color along with a new shade of grey.

Question 27

25. Logo Design

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- Here is a logo design for a local entertainment company that specifies in organizing and promotion events in Vancouver. The way I design a logo or even anything, is to first understand the goal. “ask lots of questions” and then from there do RESEARCH

Question 28

25. Logo Design

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- Another logo design for RPM electronics, a company specifies in automotive electronics. So here same thing I went through the process of getting the client’s goal, research, inspire myself a little, sketched it out and picked the good ones and turned them into digital form .

Question 29

26. Freelance

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- Lastly I want to show something I’ve done just for fun, it was a tribute poster for Bruce Lee.