Interaction designer and user experience consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Community Manager at IxDA San Francisco
- Publisher/Blogger at unraveled, my personal website
- Past
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- Senior Interaction Designer at Tiny Pictures, Inc.
- User Experience Architect at LBI
- Local Ambassador at UXnet
- Columnist at Digital Web Magazine
- Web Developer at Boxes and Arrows
- Web Quality Assurance Specialist at Columbus State Community College
- Founding Partner at Edheads
- Web Developer at MC2 Interactive
- Education
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- University College London, U. of London
- DeVry University
- Pennsylvania State University
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Joshua Kaufman’s Summary
I'm an interaction designer and user experience consultant living in San Francisco. My work focuses on on cross-platform interaction design and strategy for web and mobile applications. I hold an M.S. HCI and I have over 8 years of experience in both the United States and Europe. As an active member of the user experience design community, I'm currently the community manager of the IxDA San Francisco chapter.
Joshua Kaufman’s Specialties:
Interaction and Interface Design, Web and Mobile Applications, Social Media, Usability
Joshua Kaufman’s Experience
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Community Manager
IxDA San Francisco
(Design industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
IxDA San Francisco community advocate, evangelist and supporter.
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Publisher/Blogger
unraveled, my personal website
(Design industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Writing a personal weblog (http://unraveled.com) about design, technology, products and getting things done.
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Senior Interaction Designer
Tiny Pictures, Inc.
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
April 2007 — June 2009 (2 years 3 months)
Developed user-centered designs for Radar, a service for real-time sharing of cameraphone pictures and videos. Led the design and product strategy of Radar across its supported platforms including desktop web, mobile web, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Java. Radar was the winner of the 2008 People’s Voice Webby for Best Mobile Social Network.
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User Experience Architect
LBI
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Developed compelling user-centered solutions by working directly with senior executives of Fortune 500 companies throughout UK and Europe. Clients included UBS, Barclays, Barclaycard, Vodafone, British Telecom, Atos Origin, Phillip Morris International, and Sony. Notable projects included leading the user experience design of Barclaycard’s new consumer site, leading mobile handset benchmarking research across UK, Germany and Italy, and a significant amount of experience designing and leading usability testing studies.
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Local Ambassador
UXnet
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2004 — July 2006 (2 years)
I was the London local ambassador for UXnet (http://uxnet.org), the user experience network.
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Columnist
Digital Web Magazine
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Wrote several articles for Digital Web Magazine (http://digital-web.com) about information architecture, usability and interaction design.
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Web Developer
Boxes and Arrows
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Developed and maintained Boxes and Arrows website, a non-profit online magazine devoted to promoting the emerging fields of information architecture and interaction design.
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Web Quality Assurance Specialist
Columbus State Community College
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
October 2001 — July 2003 (1 year 10 months)
Designed and developed departmental sites by working with department chairpersons; maintained the quality of the entire site through the development of standards and quality assurance reviews.
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Founding Partner
Edheads
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 2 months)
Cofounded Edheads, a non-profit that creates educational experiences on the Web for grades K-8. Researched, wrote and developed educational activities.
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Web Developer
MC2 Interactive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2000 — August 2001 (1 year)
Collaborated as an integral member of the design and development team to develop front-end interfaces for Flash and HTML sites. Clients included Lane Bryant, Honda and Haworth.
Joshua Kaufman’s Education
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University College London, U. of London
M.S. , Human Computer Interaction , 2003 — 2004
Thesis: Accessible and Usable Web Design
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DeVry University
B.S. , Information Technology , September 2001 — September 2002
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Pennsylvania State University
B.S. , Science , 1994 — 1998
Minor in Science, Technology and Society
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- Student Counselor
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Joshua Kaufman’s Interests:
mobile interaction design and research, making stuff that matters, writing, speaking, connecting, ixdasf, science, my dog, running, skateboarding
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