Web & Mobile Designer, Entrepreneur and Idea Guy
Greater Seattle Area
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- El Presidente at Fling Media
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- Director of Strategy, Principal & Co-Founder at Blue Flavor
- President at Fling Media
- Design Director at Dwango Wireless
- Producer at Classmates.com
- Producer at Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center
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Brian Fling’s Summary
Brian is a recognized leader in both the web and mobile communities. Over the past ten years he has worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies to build cool websites, web applications and mobile sites. In 1999 Brian got his first job working for a mobile company and has been active in the community ever since. He is a frequent author and speaker on the issues on strategy, mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience.
In 2005 Brian co-founded the Seattle-based interactive agency Blue Flavor, where he worked for three years helping companies of all types and sizes. While at Blue Flavor he co-created a series of iPhone web applications called Leaflets to showcase the concepts of Mobile 2.0 just two weeks after the iPhone launched. Brian also co-authored the dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide, the first free publication to cover mobile web design and development from start to finish. He runs one of the largest online communities focused on mobile design.
Brian Fling’s Specialties:
user experience, web design, print design, mobile design, mobile web, mobile apps, iPhone, iPhone sites, iPhone Web Apps, iPhone Native Apps, graphic design, information architecture, layout, web standards, web development, usability, Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0
Brian Fling’s Experience
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El Presidente
Fling Media
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (4 months)
At Fling Media we help people with their websites—whether it is a corporate website, a community site, a mobile site, a web application—basically anything that fits into a web browser. We provide end to end services for both desktop and mobile sites, including helping you figure out how to get the most from your site, how to create an intuitive and compelling design, and create HTML & CSS templates using nothing but Web Standards.
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Director of Strategy, Principal & Co-Founder
Blue Flavor
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 10 months)
One of the four founders of this Seattle-based interactive agency. The initial idea behind Blue Flavor was to create an "anti-agency agency," providing the transparency of an in-house with the agility of an outside agency. We provided mostly web and mobile design and development services.
During my time as a Principal and managing partner we grew from the original founders to a complement of ten, and increased our revenue by 300%. -
President
Fling Media
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Design industry)
1998 — November 2005 (7 years)
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Design Director
Dwango Wireless
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)
March 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 2 months)
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Producer
Classmates.com
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; UNTD; Internet industry)
February 2004 — March 2004 (2 months)
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Producer
Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
March 2002 — February 2004 (2 years)
