I’m Amanda and this is
Beautiful
Tragedy
Building accessible, amazing websites and components
About
Amanda has created gone from a LAMP stack developer to someone who focuses on UX/UI while growing brand awareness. They've gone from small to large codebases and from legacy to new codebases. They can identify and resolve issues with persistence and dedication and is an exceptional communicator excited about learning software while collaborating with others. They can be resourceful, reliable, and professional. Amanda is known for their strong work ethic and working well in the fast-paced environment. Some of they're skills include ES6 Javascript, HTML, SCSS, and Webpack
Featured Projects
Amanda has worked on a wide variety of projects, ranging from full sites to landing pages, new layouts to plugins, components to design systems. These are just a few of the products they have worked on in the past couple of years.
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- Good Food Truck
Good Food Truck
The Good Food Truck is a site Amanda worked on while at HMC Advertising. They worked with the CEFs (Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf). The project included the site, branding, shirts, printables, and the food truck design. With the help of HMC's Designers, they built the site, child theme, and two plugins. The Twitter map and feed, along with the Instagram feed. - My Healthy VT
My Healthy VT
Helping Yourself to Health is a site Amanda worked on while at HMC Advertising. They worked with the Vermont Department of Health to create a site that focused on multiple health topics. With the help of HMC's designers and writers they created a full WordPress theme, and a video Wordpress Plugin that allowed for easy viewing of the programs stories in shortcode format. - Parent Up
Parent Up
ParentUp is a site Amanda worked on while at HMC Advertising. They worked with the Vermont Department of Health to create a site that focused on multiple issues for parents and teenagers. Some of the topics included Drug and Alcohol Abuse, depression, and suicide. With the help of HMC's designers and writers, Amanda created a full WordPress theme, and a plugin for the Set the Foundation [page. This page contains a mass amount of information that had to be easily ingested with good UX experience. - Snap
Snap
Snap is a site Amanda worked on while at HMC Advertising. They worked with the Vermont Department of Health to create a site that focused on eating healthy for low-income Vermonters. They had a lot of information to work with and had the challenge to organize it in such a way that it would be easy to navigate and appealing. - Mapfre Property Lead Gen
Mapfre Property Lead Gen
A new direction for Mapfre, as this was a POC. We wanted to try something new and gain a market as before we didn't have a property quote tool. Granted this doesn't give you a quote, but becomes a lead generator. - Beautiful Tragedy Design System
Beautiful Tragedy Design System
Amanda created a brand system and compoents for work with this brand. I hope to have it out soon, but for the moment the components can be found here. - 360 Widget
360 Widget
360 Widget was a project the marketing team from Subaru wanted for their dealership sites. In order to match closer to the Subaru.com site, the team was asked to create a 360 widget, while still using the resources they have at their disposal. - Dark Layout
Dark Layout
Dark Layout is the second layout that Subaru Dealerships can use for their vehicle page. This was one of the first projects Amanda worked while at Dealer.com. They added new functionality to a page filled with information in order to lessen the anxiety of information overload. - Weather Prep
Weather Prep
Weather & Vehicle Preparation is a page Amanda wanted to do something different on. With the help of their other team members at Dealer.com Amanda was able to persuade the Subaru Marketing team to try a different approach to the page.