This extensive software project was my first job after grad school
- Open source programmability, and magnificent
hotkeysin browser form. - Programmers, researchers, and CS engineers seem to love it.
- Check out nyxt-browser.com to get a sense for the product.
Keyboard only web browsing.
My work on Nyxt browser:
- Initially I worked on user interface and graphic design for the team.
- I stepped up into UX, interaction design, and management to keep the business moving.
- If you have two minutes here is a video of me on our Youtube channel explaining a feature.
Basic UI work
We had some brand positioning and interface issues...
- 20+ interviews and a survey later, I was able to make a compelling case to our dev team and narrow our scope to one single market (programmers who love Emacs) for the next year.
- This saved the developers months of work and kept them focused on some key architectural releases, while I made some libraries to help our customers create thier own themes on our platform.
I identify a Blue Ocean of competing factors
Uh oh, grant funding is running low...
- I designed and conducted Lean style experiments with our customers to determine the future business model(s) for Nyxt.
- My research demonstrates that our users are happy to donate, and pay for extensions.
- Today the browser has a growing user base(30k+), who donate regularly (~$.20 each!), and extensions are selling on the platform.
One of my themes for sale on the extensions platform