a collage of creative, tech and business. I enjoy interactive design. My role in interacitve is to bridge together my team's ideas and skills, so we can create great content and building avenues for users to engage and share.
My site is a place for people to check out my work and get to know me better. Please feel free to surf the site and contact me by email or twitter.
My philosophy: I love great content. Digital should be fun and engaging. When an online campaign is designed right with great content, it can be very powerful. I believe it takes a special type of mind-set to work in digital. One needs to be naturally curious and strive to reach the "big-picture" in any ideas.
Work ethics: One of the values I strive for is balance (quality vs. quantity, time vs. money, risk vs. safe bets, etc..). Balance is worth pursuing but its a challenge. Events can go right or wrong. I believe how you handle it that matters the most. I've learned it's about doing, looking at all the angles, balancing work through communication. I also value other's imagination and I'm all over any project that allows me to use my tech skills.
My bio: Born in Denver, Colorado and raised in the Rockies and Hawaii. I like adventure and diversity from horseback riding to hula. On my free time, I like to travel. Studying journalism and filmmaking, I became a honorable writer and an awesome online producer.
My current status: Attended Boulder Digital Works in 2009/10, a new developing grad-level program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The program is on the cutting edge of interactive with access to leading digital companies, such as Google, Effective UI, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, and TechStars.
great sites on my interactive radar
KoreneGallegosResume.pdf
The featured projects were launched during my time at Boulder Digital Works .
Each project provided me an opportunity to work on and strength my skills in user research, UX Design, strategizing with competitive analysis, web video production, project management and utilizing the latest coding.
My role slightly varied on each project. However my focus was digital business strategy and tech lead.
oneseam.com
my role: tech lead
BDW promo video during SXSW
my role: director / co-producer
Walnut Arches Prototyping Project
my role: With a three person team, we shared duties in research, interactive design, and video production.
I was the Tech Lead for oneseam.com, an organic fashion site. The site launched in Feb. 2010. I worked with Denise Horton and Heather Seal on the UX design and business strategy.
denverpost.com
I serve as a contract multi-media producer, since 2006. I'm a producer for the main new site. In 2010, I was the interactive producer for the development of heyreverb.com, the Post's lead nightlife blog site.
Celestial Seasonings
I consult on the HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP coding for Celestial Seasonings website and their Social Responsibilities campaign in 2010.
UX Designs
BDW Website
Proposed Re-Design
heyreverb.com
The Gap
facebook Page
Executive Producer: Allison Kent-Smith
Producer : Mark Harrison
Director : Korene Gallegos
Art Director : Heather Seal
Mentors : Allison Kent-Smith, David Slyden, Rena Dusenbury, CPB, Modernista and Post Modern Production
The Denver Post goes behind the scenes of Denver Nuggets Carmelo's Powerade commerical. The filming took place in Thornton, Colorado.
Shot and edited by Korene Gallegos
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*Note: The presentation is a short overview of the UX research and design to a non-tech audience. I explained how my team can bring user experience into the new micro-site. My team's work was a lot more extensive.
A Denver Post special project. I edited Corrada family footage in tribute to their son Max, who lived with Autism.
Max's passion was signs. He saw the beauty and art in things people see every day. The video was to illustrate how he sees the world.
The music was the song his father played for him during thier trips to the city.
He died on Jan. 25, 2009.
Read Denver Post columnist Greene's article for Max's story.
Worked with filmmaker Halima Yates to promote the Z camera on youtube in 2008. Friends that helped were Brandon Carter and Melanie Gallegos.
6 weeks site launch project
*from concept to code
The site was created with two other BDW students, Denise Horton and Heather Seal, to generate buzz among eco-fashion designers. Organic/fair-trade clothing is becoming the fastest niche market within the fashion industry. In the past few year, eco-fashion has emerged from standard hemp clothing to high-fashion runways.
Our focus is to feature independent eco-fashion designers and help build a community of buyers.
In May 2010, oneseam.com was named in the New York Times article featuring Boulder Digital Works.
BACK TO PROJECTS
BDW Promo Video
Boulder Digital Works at the University of Colorado started in 2009 with a vision of bring a new educational prospective to digital. The program provides direct access to today's leading interactive-media forces, such as Crispin Porter Bogusky, Microsoft, Hulu and Hyper Island.
Motto..."Its about learning by doing."
A few students were selected, myself, Heather Seal, and CU MBA student Mark Harrison, to create a web video featuring BDW during SXSW. Our video took over the homepage.
Companies involved in the launch were CPB, Post Modern Production and Modernista.
Executive Producer: Mark Harrison
Art Director: Heather Seal
Director/co-producer: Korene Gallegos
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Walnut Arches Project
Art Installation - Video Prototyping
The Walnut Arches Project was initiated by Mark McGee, a developer of downtown Boulder, Colorado.
Timeline: 6 weeks / 3 weeks observing and researching target users
The mission of the project was to:
Execution was a video prototype illustrating the research, defined IXD (Human Center Design) and creativity for the walkway.
The BDW students' first public review was presented in February 2010 in an open community forum with the City of Boulder Elective Board, Mike McGee and selected CU/BDW faculty.
My team included Nick Williams and Teghan Tracy. Our focus was a walk through Boulder history from frontier days, hippies, to Colorado tech valley.
My team role involved researching Boulder's history, observing users of the walkway, video editing, impliment 3D modeling, creating the project wiki, and helping to shape the interactive concept.
Walk through Boulder's interactive history
The city's oldest living resident, the Flat Irons, reveal its history through the Walnut Arches walkway. As pedestrian enter into the space, the art installation starts to animate.
Team: Denise Horton, Heather Seal, and Korene Gallegos. Erin McHugh as freelance copywriter.
My Focus and Role: I worked with the team on the UX design. We outlined our target users' personas. I research other e-commerce sites and noted the layout of features on the sites.
After a competitive analysis, I built the wireframes and sitemap for the site. Once the layout of the site was done, I worked with graphic designer (Seal) to flesh out the features. Our goal is to have the e-commerce function up and running in July 2010.
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