Between the fall of 2001 and fall 2002, I worked at the CBC on a media-rich social website for an innovative national television program called ZeD. The show bridged the web and TV worlds by enabling users to upload their own media content, which the viewer community would then vote on. Highly-ranked web content would be broadcast on national television. This was long before YouTube was around. My work involved assessing the needs of musicians, poets, filmmakers, dancers and other artists in portraying their work online and creating the initial conceptual design work through a detailed UI specification. I also contributed to the look and feel of the UI skinning process, helped with liaison work between various stakeholders across the organization, and coded portions of the final implementation in Java. I assisted with Flash development, I built a web-based video wall and I developed an internal workflow application for tracking the production of TV content.

ZeD was nominated for Gemini, Webby and Emmy awards and helped inspire Al Gore's current.tv project.

You can read more about ZeD on Wikipedia.

An early UI skin:

Another UI skin: