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I was hired at Creative Works in Omaha, Nebraska as a UI/UX designer, though my role was very broad.

Creative Works which is no longer in business, was a company that took on many small clients at once and distributed the work to a team of diversely-talented individuals.

Some of the work required collaboration between designers, sysadmins, Wordpress experts, and front-end developers all at once. Any one of us, however, would usually fulfill more than one of these roles at a time and learn new skills when necessary.

Our clients included small storefronts needing an e-commerce solution, microsites for brands doing seasonal promotions, and projects of passion from individuals.

Some of my favorite projects to work on at the time were Wordpress websites. PHP isn't my favorite language by any means, but I really enjoyed creating components that users could easily install with the click of a button. Unfortunately, per contract, I wasn't able to actually distribute any of these into the public plugin repository.

My time at CW was a whirlwind of constant learning. Every week I was working on a project I was completely unprepared for the week before. Yet somehow we managed to get everything done on time.