Hello there! I'm a San Francisco-based interface designer and developer who loves building functional, beautiful, data-driven websites. I'm currently working at Salesforce as the Senior Marketing Web UX Designer for Desk.com.

Featured Projects

Gay Cliques Census

Cliques Infographic

Identity is very important in the Gay Community. This need to belong has grown into countless labels, social groups and cliques. To help understand and identify these social groups, I created the Gay Cliques Census and an interactive infographic to explain the results.

Javascript, jQuery, XHTML, CSS3, Facebook API, PHP, MySQL, Google Docs API, Google Chart API View ▸
Barcelonia tumblr theme

Barcelonia

Barcelonia is a fully custumizable blog theme for tumblr. Blog posts are organized into columns like a newpaper. Featured articles dramatically span two or three columns, and pages are automatically loaded as the reader scrolls. Lots of Facebook integration.

Javascript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Facebook API, Tumblr View ▸
Addicting Games Facebook

Addicting Games

Through careful AB testing and social integration, I helped grow this app from launch to 2 million MAU, making this a top-200 Facebook app. Social highlights include sharable high scores, friend challenges, in-game and app-wide achievements.

Javascript, jQuery, XHTML, CSS3, Facebook API, Java, JSTL, Google App Engine View ▸
PostMort.us

PostMort.us

PostMort.us checks your Facebook daily for inactivity and alerts your emergency contacts if you're unresponsive.

PHP, MySql, Javascript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, Facebook API View ▸
Furry Art Pile

FAP

Furry Art Pile (FAP) was a website for artists and patrons of the arts. Online for about two years, the site became extremely popular with nearly 60,000 pieces of art and about 20,000 active users. I closed the site after two years running due to dwindling interest and the expensive operating cost of hosting such a large community.

PHP, MySQL, Javascript, JSON, jQuery, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Amazon EC2
tank

tank

tank is an idea management system that categorizes thoughts with tags — making it a little bit easier than a note book.

PHP, MySql, Javascript, XHTML, CSS View ▸
guba

Guba

GUBA (Giant Usenet Binary Archive) indexed videos and images from Usenet to the Internet. I was responsible for the redesign of Guba.com and development of their new video player. Guba closed in August of 2010.

Grails, AS3, Javascript, XHTML, CSS
tank

tank mobile

This is the mobile-optimized version of tank. Designed as an HTML5 app, it can be run offline and syncs new ideas the next time a connection is available.

PHP, MySql, Javascript, XHTML, CSS3, Local Storage
incubate
Video coming soon!

Incubate

Incubate is a prose composer for Twitter. Save short snippits and one-liners to be refined and developed later.

HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery Mobile, Local Storage, Twitter API
liftrecord
Video coming soon!

Lift Record

Lift Record is a simple tool for recording your weight lifting progress. Workouts are tracked by excersize, day, weight, set and reps.

HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery Mobile, Local Storage, Twitter API

Older Projects

  • ArtPiles
  • feedminder
  • Business Objects
  • Granite Rock
  • Cisco
  • idoltan

Recommendations

As a product manager, it’s so refreshing to work with someone like Dylan. He GETS social, games and Facebook, which was such a huge leg up when building out the AddictingGames Facebook App.

Any ideas I ran by him or suggested, he would take, improve upon and whip up in working order with what seemed like ridiculous ease. He is super passionate about the products that he works on which is an absolute delight and he always has the users’ interests at heart.

There is no way that we could have built our app in such a short time without having Dylan leading the front-end implementation. This guy is a rockstar, a fantastic teammate and any company would be lucky to have him.

Amanda Amy LaThanh Amanda "Amy" LaThanh Product Manager, MTV Networks

Dylan Hafertepen has an impeccable aesthetic and taste level. You can count on Dylan to be always leader in cutting-edge U.I. design. His upbeat attitude was a welcome addition to our team.

I need to clone him!

Kathleen Morford Kathleen Morford Vice President of Marketing, SVG Technology Inc

Dylan managed all front-end design and interactivity for GUBA and SVG Technology. Without a doubt he is the most talented front-end/UI guy I’ve ever worked with. Dylan is just as comfortable with photoshop as he is writing javascript—a rare combination, in my experience. He fully understands the latest in web standards, browser quirks, and UI ideas.

Dylan is extremely easy to get along with and takes great pride in his work. I heartily recommend him to anybody in need of a strong creative + technical lead.

Eric Lambrecht Eric Lambrecht CTO and Founder, GUBA Inc

Dylan is a brilliant, pro-active team player who brings his creative resourcefulness to the job each-and-every day. As a rockstar UI Developer for the Shockwave.com team, he was quickly recognized by the organization as someone who had a lot to offer.

He's quick, conscientious and always approaches his work with the customer/consumer in mind—leading to optimal user experience. I'd gladly work with Dylan again, and recommend you scope him up asap.

Jaime Rodriguez, Jr Jaime Rodriguez, Jr. Director of Product Management, Shockwave, Viacom
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