EOC Week 3 - Great Customer Experience

Last year a friend and I were preparing to install new flooring throughout her new house. It was a really big project for two girls with limited knowledge of home improvement. We did some shopping around and found the flooring she wanted at Home Depot. While there we were surprised to find an extremely helpful and knowledgeable employee that helped us throughout the entire process. I wasn’t expecting a whole lot out of the flooring department at Home Depot, as they are usually extremely busy. He didn’t assume that because we were female that we couldn’t handle the project, like a different employee from Lowe’s had done. He knew the questions he should ask in order to determine our competency, and helped us out with the things we weren’t sure of. It was nice to finally have an employee be so helpful. He really went above and beyond and even loaned us his own personal miter saw. There’s no way we could have done all that we did without all his help. I had never seen that before—someone trusting his customers enough to loan out his own personal equipment.

EOC Week 2 - My Demograph

I believe I share quite a few characteristics assigned to Generation Y. I am extremely inquisitive, opinionated and impatient in many areas of my life. I have a hard time being told what to do and generally demand to know why I am being told to do such a thing. I want to know why the world works the way it does, I want to know how things are created. Once I find something to believe in, no one can persuade me otherwise. I believe in the technologically saturated society we’ve built for ourselves, we have all become quite impatient. I cannot stand waiting more than two seconds for a web page to load. It is said that Generation Y tends to be family-oriented, but we are also diverse. I don’t feel as though I qualify for each characteristic that is said to color my generation, but I suppose this then proves the diversity from one individual to the next.

EOC Week 2 - Favortie Fast Food as a Child

As a small child I, unfortunately, ate a lot of fast food. McDonald’s is all I remember eating if we went out. I actually liked McDonald’s hamburgers so much that I wouldn’t eat hamburgers from any other place. I would especially refuse to eat home cooked hamburgers. One weekend, I was about 7, we went camping as a family and the only way my dad could get me to eat the hamburgers he cooked is by telling me that McDonald’s delivered the hamburgers to us. I absolutely believed him and ate one, fully believing I was eating a McDonald’s hamburger! Ah, just one of the many little white lies my parents had to tell me to get me to eat…

EOC Week 1

I am a New Media designer. Among many things, I design websites and I make them work.

I am an artist. I am a minimalist. I am a perfectionist. I create art with whatever medium I can. I have a crazy obsession with type, color and simplicity.

I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art and Graphic Design and I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Interactive Media Design. I have been tooling around the design industry for the last five years, bringing ideas to life as I go. I have been a freelance and contract designer during that time where I gained professional experience designing for print as well as the web. I have gained a great deal of experience in logo design and corporate branding as well as website and user interface design.

My portfolio can be seen at http//:www.carrieepperly.com.