Alexander Grattan

I create playful experiences.

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Alexander Grattan / Software Developer

About Me

Hi there! My name is Alexander Grattan and I'm a software developer at Actual Size, a branding and digital design agency located in Pittsburgh, PA.

My current software development skills primarily focus around web development, but I also enjoy experimenting with app development, creative coding, data visualization, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and UX.

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My Projects

Artificial Unintelligence

Artificial Unintelligence

Online multiplayer game where players compete against each other to create the funniest AI-generated images.

Personal Project

Alcohol101+

Alcohol101+

An innovative, interactive program which helps students make safe and responsible decisions about alcohol.

with Actual Size for Responsibility.org

Hayden AI Marketing Website

Hayden AI Marketing Website

Hayden AI creates cutting-edge AI for smarter cities and this website highlights its various platforms and technologies.

with Actual Size for Hayden AI

Responsibility Works

Responsibility Works

An online alcohol responsibility course that assists employers and employees in training and maintaining safe and responsible workplaces.

with Actual Size for Responsibility.org

SAFE Marketing Website

SAFE Marketing Website

SAFE drives change by educating on the importance of ignition interlocks, a technology that encourages a responsible life after DUI.

with Actual Size for SAFE

Virtual Bar App

Virtual Bar App

A iOS, Android, and web app that allows users to gain a better understanding of how different factors affect their blood-alcohol concentration – or BAC.

with Actual Size for Responsibility.org

Vesper AI Marketing Website

Vesper AI Marketing Website

Vesper AI, a subsiduary of Hayden AI, turns crowdsourced data into operational intelligence that saves lives, at Actual Size I created this website to tell this story.

with Actual Size for Hayden AI

Food Phantoms

Food Phantoms

Web app to find if a restaurant on Doordash or Uber Eats is a ghost kitchen or a virtual kitchen where the food served originates from an unexpected establishment.

Personal Project

Big Burgh Redesign

Big Burgh Redesign

A new design and construction of the Big Burgh app (not an official redesign) used to help Pittsburgh natives find resources such as food and shelter.

Personal Project

Secret Pittsburgh

Secret Pittsburgh

Website for the Secret Pittsburgh class at the University of Pittsburgh (ENGLIT 1412) dedicated to uncovering hidden spaces and unusual places in the city of Pittsburgh.

Personal Project

Pitt CSC

Pitt CSC

Redesigned and developed the website for the Pitt Computer Science Club that helps advertise its efforts to support computer science and technology-related initiatives.

Personal Project

Grademyaid

Grademyaid

Application that allows students to grade their college financial aid packages using data from the US Department of Education.

This was built for Pitt CSC Hacks, a competition sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh's Computer Science Club.

Personal Project

Grosseries

Grosseries

A mobile app that helps individuals to track expiration dates and the inventory of their food, a group project for the University of Pittsburgh's CS1635 created with the app development framework, Flutter.

Personal Project

Pollock Is Sh!t

Pollock Is Sh!t

Web app that manipulates image data to create a Pollock-like painting (because literally anyone could've been Pollock).

Personal Project

Belly Button Chrome Extension

Belly Button Chrome Extension

Browser extension that helps developers and accessibility engineers inspect a website's buttons and determine if they follow HTML standards and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Personal Project

Virtual Safari

Virtual Safari

A recreation of Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari, a choose-your-own adventure from The Lion King DVD.

I edited the choices into individual clips using the video editor, DaVinci Resolve, and used JavaScript to develop the site interaction.

Personal Project