![]() ![]() We all make daily decisions in order to use our time efficiently. If you as a designer treat your user’s time with the same respect that you give your own, you will ultimately deliver success. Even if something is completely free, a user is still trading their time to interact with it - time that they could spend with their family, enjoying a hobby, or getting work done. The one thing that everyone has the exact same amount of, regardless of their socioeconomic status, is 24 hours in a day. What’s a creative life-hack you’ve developed as a result of design thinking? Designing for diversity is extremely important it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of designing only for yourself and your personal use-case. This diverse life and career experience helps me craft understandings about potential users from differing perspectives. I’ve lived in cities and in the country, the south and the north, liberal meccas and conservative strongholds. I’ve worked with Fortune 500 companies and 2-person startups. ![]() Besides being equally comfortable working in UX, technology, and design, I have a wide swath of varying experience in separate verticals: I’ve worked in marketing, e-commerce, startups, enterprise, and brand. I believe it’s an “all-around” skill set and mindset that I bring to argo. What’s the unique element you add to the argodesign team? Knowing that the solution I’ve applied to a problem might relieve someone’s anxiety, shorten a task, or just make someone’s day a little better is what draws me to this line of work. I truly enjoy helping people, and solving problems in the digital space allows me to help far more people than I ever could in person. I was that kid in high school that hated standardized tests but would jump at the chance to solve problems with a less tangible (yet equally correct) answer. Whether it’s through technology, UX, or design, I enjoy fixing or improving things. I love solving problems nothing brings me more joy than that. Why are you a designer? What is the intention that drives your work? I moved to Austin in 2012 when I got a job with R/GA as a Senior Open Standards developer a couple years later, I joined the team at argo. But Burton kept sending me to Texas for SXSW, and I fell in love with tacos, the weather, the music…basically everything about Austin. Then I spent several years at Burton Snowboards as the Tech Lead for Mobile and Interactive. My career in design started as a Flash Developer at. After getting a design degree from Champlain College, I went into the Tattoo industry for a few years before going back to Champlain for another degree in Computer Science. My formal interest in both design and technology began around the same time when I enrolled in a high school “Technical Communications” class. However, we did have a computer in the house, which in the early 80’s was fairly unheard of. I grew up in rural Vermont in a log cabin on a dirt road next door to a horse farm. ![]()
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