Hi! I'm Nico.

I build simple and effective websites.

I'm a Michigan-based web developer and digital designer with over 10 years of agency experience. I love helping brands build thoughtful, simple, and effective websites and other digital products.

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Featured Work

Yoruba Saxon

I had the pleasure of working with Tyke Brand Studio on the redesign of Yoruba Saxon, the film production company led by A-list power-couple David and Jessica Oyelowo.

Requirements

The small but mighty team at Yoruba Saxon needed a platform that could support the tailored design and provide an editing experience that felt familiar and had a gentle learning curve.

The team wanted to align the launch of the new site with the release of a series called Government Cheese.

Solutions

Familiarity and ease of use was achieved by leveraging WordPress with only a handful of plugins to simplify the content management and administrative experiences.

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Features

Custom WordPress Theme
Visually optimized for large desktops, tablets, and mobile devices
WCAG-compliant keyboard accessible navigation
ACF Pro customized editing experience
Stripped down WordPress backend to reduce visual clutter
Angled containers that flow content along their boundaries

Recent Work

Shutout the Stigma

BlueKC's partnership and joint initiative with the Kansas City Royals aims to normalize and raise awareness of young athletes experiencing mental health challenges. I was tasked with updating this static site with a new design within a short timeframe to align with television marketing campaigns. It uses a simple HTML/CSS/JS (ES6 and jQuery) stack along with node packages to help with pre-compiling and bundling.

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The Blueprint - BlueKC

During my time at Chemistry, I was in charge of managing several items of BlueKC's catalogue. One of the largest, most challenging sites was The Blueprint. It serves as a resource hub that populates unique content for targeted audiences, determined by the user's entry point (via referrer logic). We used WordPress to enable their marketing team to author and manage content.

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Brands

Over several years, I've had the pleasure of contributing agency work for some great brands.

Disciplines

As a former designer, I gravitate toward frontend-focused disciplines, but throughout my career I found myself responding to various business needs and finding ways to add value.

While I specialize in building websites, I also have deep experience building different types of products such as eNewsletters, CRM integrations, banner ads, and social media campaigns.

Experiments

I've learned a lot over my career, but I'm always learning something new. I enjoy creating sandboxes for new technologies and documenting my findings on my blog over at Hashnode.

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Languages / Frameworks

Bootstrap
ES5, ES6, jQuery
Foundation
HTML/CSS/JS
Next.js
PHP
Skeleton
Tailwind
Wordpress Theme Development

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite
Browserstack
Figma
Github / Git
Google Analytics
Gulp
JetBrains IDEs
Node.js / NPM
SASS, LESS, HAML

Practices

Analytics
CI/CD Pipelines
Cross-browser testing
Graceful Degradation
Performance and Optimization
Progressive Enhancement
Responsive Design
SEO feature implementations
WCAG and ADA Compliance

Contact

I'm always looking for new opportunities to work with great people. If you're interested in working with me, please send me a message.