Avery Photo I.D. System

WINNER: 2003 Macromedia MAX Award for Best Business Experience

The Avery Photo ID System is a visitor management system that allows companies to create identification badges for visitors and track them using a central database. The product is intended to replace the manual paper logbook used by most companies in their front lobby. The software greets incoming visitors, takes their photo, stores their information in a database, and prints out a color identification badge. When the visitor leaves, a barcode printed on the badge can be scanned to show that they have signed out and left the facility.

The Photo ID system allows companies to customize their badge templates by adding logos, customizing data fields, as well as modifying workflow related parameters such as unique identifiers, barcodes, and security policies.

The Avery Photo ID System is a Flash thick client application sitting in a Director shell, which in turn interfaces with a MySQL database on a server (local or remote) running Tomcat.

Designed for Avery Dennison, a Fortune 500 office products company, this shrink-wrapped product has been localized into over 10 Western languages and has worldwide distribution. It exceeded sales expectations in first 2 quarters by 40 percent.

Its most notable achievements have included providing an accurate headcount for at least one safe evacuation from a burning building, being used by certain government buildings in Washington, D.C., and being used in the American athletes' dormitories during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Produced for Fluid, Inc., I worked on this project for two years, from the initial prototype to the final shipping version, as its primary information architect, interaction designer, visual designer, and even (at times) production artist.