steven simon

Hey, I’m Steven. I enjoy experimenting, building, and turning ideas into meaningful digital experiences.

AI Video Generator

AI Video Generator is a Python Flask app that lets anyone create online course trailers without traditional production experience. It uses ElevenLabs API for narration, AI-generated visuals from SORA, and background music to streamline video creation.

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AI Video Generator

Wiley Agnostic Lander

What makes a web form user-friendly? Clear visibility, conciseness, credibility, and incentives are key factors. After conducting user research on web forms, I designed and developed an agnostic landing page and web form with the goal of boosting conversion rate.

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Wiley Agnostic Lander

Chart.js Gutenberg Block

I noticed that the graphs on Wiley's WordPress websites were not interactive, so I took it upon myself to develop a Gutenberg Block that utilizes the chart.js library, allowing for the creation of interactive graphs.

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Chart.js Gutenberg Block

Social Work Degrees Redesign

At Wiley, I enhance the user experience of degree program websites. For example, I rebranded socialworkdegrees.org to improve conversion, engagement, and SEO. This rebrand included a new logo, updated web design, additional features, and custom Gutenberg Blocks.

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Social Work Degrees Redesign

Wiley Engage

Wiley Engage is an internal Learning Management System at Wiley. Shown is a WordPress theme to market Wiley Engage that I designed and developed (2022). For this custom theme, I included search functionality and three custom Gutenberg Blocks built with React.

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Wiley Engage

Preserving and Strengthening Our Culture

As employees began working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Discount Tire needed a way to share its culture with newly hired remote employees. I created a React app for Discount Tire to give new remote employees a virtual tour of the company's history, values, departments, and plans.

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Preserving and Strengthening Our Culture

Guide That Customer Game

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Discount Tire let customers drive their own vehicles to reduce exposure to the virus. I created a game using p5.play within the Adapt eLearning framework to teach proper hand signals for guiding customers in and out of the bays.

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Guide That Customer Game

Sales Career Path

The Sales Career Path is a series of single page applications that I illustrated and developed with Vue that teach employees at Discount Tire the steps necessary to move into a management position.

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Sales Career Path

Banner Tool

Because Discount Tire often needs banners for their intranet, I decided to develop a banner tool so that anyone on our team could make banners without a developer.

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Banner Tool

Shoebox Challenge

The Shoebox Challenge began in 2011 when Samaritan's Purse and Herschend Family Entertainment partnered with the goal to collect shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. This is the new website (2019) that I designed and developed in WordPress.

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Shoebox Challenge

Leading With Love

Leading With Love is a WordPress website designed and developed to help employees at Herschend Family Entertainment learn how to lead and manage in a loving way.

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Leading With Love

Wildwood Grove Interactive Tour

This interactive map made with p5.js leads you on a guided tour of the Dollywood theme park's new Wildwood Grove area.

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Wildwood Grove Interactive Tour

Appy Birthday

One of the projects that I worked on while at GEICO was the branding for the GEICO mobile app's eighth birthday. The branding included a website, a large banner to hang in the office, a poster, and an email to send out to customers.

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Appy Birthday

GEICO IT

This is an infographic that I illustrated to show the excitement of being a GEICO IT associate. It is exciting to know that GEICO is reimagining how the future of insurance will work.

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GEICO IT

Shake a Sound

Shake a Sound is a mobile web app designed for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Teknopolis. The app establishes a connection between devices using web sockets and lets each person play music, in contribution with everyone else, by shaking their phone.

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Shake a Sound

Bop It Keyboard

Bop It Keyboard is a fast-paced typing game designed to build keyboarding skills. Inspired by the classic Bop It toy, players must quickly type on-screen prompts before time runs out. Built with desktop and mobile in mind, it features an on-screen keyboard for accessibility and touch interaction.

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Bop It Keyboard

Kodi Learns to Cook

Kodi Learns to Cook is an interactive storybook for children made with p5.js. This book uses games, animation, and music to introduce cooking in a fun way.

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Kodi Learns to Cook