Jeff Vlahos is a Boston-based UX/UI designer who creates engaging digital products. His process includes ideation, research, information architecture, prototyping, design, and development.


Designer at Upstatement

Co-creator of Nollr

Everyday Thinker & Maker

Latest Work

Upstatement

July 2012–Present

I am currently a full-time Designer at the Boston web design firm Upstatement, alongside a team of six designers and developers. At Upstatement, I approach design problems full-circle: through research, information architecture, wire framing, prototyping, visual design, and front-end development.

Visit upstatement.com

Nollr

2010–Present

Alongside my brother Dan, I am the co-founder of Nollr. Nollr is a customizable, web-based start page with visual bookmarks, dynamic widgets, and an open community. It is currently in private beta as we continue to evolve the project based on user response and feedback.

Visit nollr.com

Seven Days of Earthquakes

2011–2012

Seven Days of Earthquakes is a interactive website and visualization that reminds us how active our planet is every week. Using a dynamic data source made accessible by the USGS, I created a website and Processing-based interactive visualization that allowed others to explore the world of earthquakes for themselves.

Visit 7daysofeq.com

EcoNoise

MassArt 2012

EcoNoise is a consumer-awareness system for the impact of audio products on the environment. The system is comprised of a in-store product label, as well as an iPad app. The ecoNoise app allows consumers to compare the impact of new audio products they may be considering purchasing, and can also grade the customer based on their currently-owned audio products.

Latest Writing

I Want to Write More
Sunday, April 7th, 2013

This is just a hard-coded post, but hopefully this space will be dynamic in the near future. I'm looking to write more. Share thoughts. Tell stories. Engage with other designers about the problems of today and tomorrow.

That's what this space is about. While there are loads of CMS's out there, and all sorts of content aggregators, I'm thinking of creating my own custom, light-weight writing platform. While I've been over on Tumblr for a while, it has failed to really entice me to write and share engaging content. There will be some challenges, but hopefully my limitations will lead to some highly-efficient and useful results, and ultimately, some great writing.

Until then, the Tumblr is still running.