I’m Justin, a CRO/UX Designer at PDM ✌
Over six years of experimenting, succeeding and failing at design while always finding new ways to learn… and build Trello boards for EVERYTHING!
Projects

The App Tracker That Got Us Into DEFCON 2020
We were all shocked when our side project got accepted to this year’s online cybersecurity convention called DEFCON 2020.
Creating a New Web Experience That Scales
Though I originally started as a designer at Hamilton Education, I was over the moon when I got to bring their website to 2020.


Two Weeks To Lift-off: Rapid Landing Page Design
If you think it takes longer than two weeks to fully build a landing page and PPC campaign all with tracking, think again!
Increasing Landing Page Conversions With Tracking Data
Stop going around in circles when trying to implement new elements to a new landing page and start using your data.


My Mini-Design System With Entrepreneur XD/CC Library
Designing from scratch loses its fun after you make the same button 30 times.
Rethinking Usable.tools
Due to a hasty development process the USABLE site suffered from navigational and inconsistency issues that made the site very difficult to access information and resources.


Building Better Experiences With Prototypes and Interaction Videos
Describing an interaction on a website via a static mockup is difficult, asking a developer to build it without any frame of reference is even more so.
Let’s Try HTML5 Banner Ads?
Static display ads are all fine and good except when they are competing with rich media ads (or animated HTML5 bannner ads).


Making Entrepreneur More Animated
Social media has become crowded with videos, GIFs, webms, and all kinds of other moving pixels trying to steal your attention.
Revamping The Entrepreneur Homepage Just Added Section
Even though the majority of our readers arrive on Entrepreneur.com via article, updating our homepage was a part of a larger design initiative balancing our visitor’s experience as well as creating a valuable space for our advertisers.


Super Sleek Screenshots For The Entrepreneur Apps
Getting someone to download your application from an app store is way more complex than one might think.
Housekeeping: Entrepreneur Encyclopedia Pages
Consistently in the top ten most visited pages (organically) on Entrepreneur.com, our large array of encyclopedia pages needed to quickly inform visitors and capitalize on page visits.

About
My name is Justin DeBlois. I work as a Web Designer in Orange County.
Outside of work, I’m constantly learning new and varied skills – software development and sewing being my go to right now.
Most recently, I’ve been passionate about building design systems (big or small) and how we, as designers, can utilize them to reduce time spent reinventing the wheel and focus on really matters.

What I’m Reading
Clean Code 💻 by Robert C. Martin
Making Websites Win 🏆 by Karl Blanks
Ruined By Design 👏👏👏 by Mike Monteiro
Make Time ⏰ by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Game-Based Marketing 🎯 by Gabe Zichermann
Couture Sewing Techniques 👖 by Claire B. Shaeffer