I'm a senior UX consultant who has worked on everything from mobile apps to scientific instrumentation. I care about excellent design and genuine usability — and about the processes that make both possible across a product's full development. I'm looking to make a difference beyond merely accruing money and gadgets, through the craft and perspective of this profession.
Specialties
- user experience
- information design
- interaction design
- user research
- user testing, in-person and remote
- rapid prototyping
- educating and evangelizing UX practices and principles within your organization
- community interaction
- being gravity
- extensive experience working with remote and global teams for both product design and client services
Now that you've re-read my LinkedIn bio, I'll dig in a little more.
I really dig this whole user experience thing. I got into the industry during the late-90s dot-com rollercoaster as an HTML coder, frankly because I didn't know what direction I wanted for my life. Designing web pages, I started appreciating the principles behind what-went-where-and-why, got some great mentoring early on, and met a lot of kick-ass people along the way. A co-worker eventually introduced me to the work of Edward Tufte, whose ideas about the clear, beautiful presentation of information set me off exploring what it takes to make a page as usable as it is "pretty." Conversations with library-science friends led me to information architecture and UX design — and that lit a passion I never expected to find.
And so here we are now. My latest roles have focused on designing software platforms that bring together large suites of applications into a common framework.