Interface design + Dashboards + Workflows + Data visualization
Parts & Labor is a low-volume design / build freelance outfit in Oakland, California, focused on making websites and web apps that are easy to use and modernly minimal.
I am Erik Hopp. I've been building websites since the late 1990s. Over the years, my skillset has diversified to include a very wide range - from logo and graphic design to lots of front-end work to building complete IoT web applications on cloud-computing platforms. Most of my daily work is on long-term projects and larger systems, but I still really enjoy working on smaller projects that allow for some more innovative and creative approaches.
My early career was primarily implementing and customizing Drupal systems but over the past 5 years, I've moved into Node and Next.js as my primary foundation for projects, largely relying on building backend services on AWS.
My interests and experience have lead me to focus on building dashboards, web tools and applications, workflows, and data visualizations.
I most appreciate working with small teams to execute creative and strategically opportune projects with values I can get behind.
Throughout my design career, I’ve worked with a lot of interesting organizations including The Yes Men, Sierra Club, Fair Trade USA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, National Lawyer’s Guild, Shareable, NoiseBridge, and the Institute for the Future.
Having been interested in the convergence of software and hardware for a while, in , I left the company I started to join up with some friends who are also interested in building sensor networks, bringing to life the Internet of Things, and utilizing our collective engineering capacity to make tools that enable science to lead us towards a smarter, healthier future.
As such, the majority of my work time these days is spent with my full-time job at AethLabs. In that role, I design and develop tools that both support the air pollution monitors that we design and manufacture and provide customers with the data processing, analytics and visualization tools they need to understand the data they collect. This hasn't left me with much time for personal projects or freelance client work, but when the project is right, I can make it happen.
If you think I might be a good match for something you're working on, get in touch.