About
I design very large websites and usually-quite-small artist books. While one deals with fingers tapping screens, the other with hands holding pages, these two pursuits feel very parallel. Both involve anticipating a person's needs, guiding his or her movements, designing and testing out systems, doing the math, loving the details.
Education
M.A. Graphic Design, George Mason University School of Art, 2015
B.A. Psychology, Dartmouth College, 2009
Plus: many continuing ed courses in design and book arts from Penland School of Craft, Frogman’s Print Workshops, Saddleback College, Glassell School of Art & Rhode Island School of Design.
Work
Director of User Experience Design, EVERFI – April 2020 – Present
Principal UX Designer, Gannett / USA TODAY, 2018 – 2020
Various levels of UX Designer, Gannett / USA TODAY, 2013 – 2018
Math & Writing Teacher, VanDamme Academy, 2010 – 2012
Presentations
Poster at DCUX, Washington DC, 2019 (link)
Poster at IAC (Information Architecture Conference), Orlando FL, 2019 (link)
Speaker at Google’s Polymer Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017 (link - start at 5:05)
Book Exhibitions
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, If These Walls Could Pep Talk, 2018
Fenwick Gallery, Invisible, 2017
George Mason University, Map Book, 2016
George Mason University, Sockeye, 2015
Fenwick Gallery, 23andMe, 2015
Workhouse Arts Center, Nostalgic Objects, 2015
Fenwick Gallery, Bethel in the Green Mountains, 2014
Gallery 123 at George Mason University, Seeds, 2013
Reading Sockeye to the kindergarten class at my old school. :)