About Me
Let’s start with my Twitter profile, since that's where I spend a lot of my free time:
“With a can of ersatz tuna in his hands and an electric screwdriver in his belt he was a lord of infinite space.” *LOOKING FOR WORK* #ux #usability #design
In my last job, working for a major advertising company, I wore a number of hats. (No matter how much I pleaded, they kept handing me hats). I started out as their sole web QA engineer, and for my sins got handed a big red fez and informed that I had been promoted to SEO Monkey (Editor, that is).
Shortly thereafter, I untangled some serious usability flaws in the design for a touch-screen kiosk for one of our clients, and User Experience Analyst was added to my titles.
Along the way, I learned that I love designing site architectures and workflows. I love trying to prevent the visual designers and marketing people from changing the user experience from a simple transaction to a bizarre ritual.
I see user experience design as making products easy to use and memorable, without unnecessary ornament. And that's the job I want when I grow up.
Now I've returned to school to get the formal training to back up the skills I learned on the job over the past decade.