Interaction Designer at Punchcut
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Interaction Designer at Punchcut
- Community Manager at IxDA San Francisco
- Local Coordinator at UX Book Club San Francisco
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- Contract Mobile Interaction Designer at Walmart.com
- 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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- DeVry University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University College London, U. of London
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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. Human Computer Interaction and I have over 8 years of experience in both the United States and Europe. I'm an active member of the user experience design community, and I currently serve as the community manager of the IxDA San Francisco chapter.
Learn more about my work experience at http://unraveled.com/work/
Joshua Kaufman’s Specialties:
Product Design and Strategy, Interaction and Interface Design, Web and Mobile Applications, Web Design and Development, Social Media, Usability
Joshua Kaufman’s Experience
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Senior Interaction Designer
Punchcut
(Privately Held; Design industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
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Community Manager
IxDA San Francisco
(Design industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
IxDA San Francisco community advocate, evangelist and supporter.
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Local Coordinator
UX Book Club San Francisco
(Public Company; GOOG; Design industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
As the first UX Book Club (http://uxbookclub.org) Local Coordinator in San Francisco, I organize regular meetings where people interested in user experience come to discuss a book relevant to the discipline.
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Contract Mobile Interaction Designer
Walmart.com
(Public Company; WMT; Retail industry)
August 2009 — October 2009 (3 months)
Developing designs for Walmart’s mobile websites, which are optimized for a range of device capabilities including XHTML-MP, HTML and iPhone/Webkit.
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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. Designed web and mobile applications in their entirety, from sketches to wireframes to pixel-perfect designs, by working with the executive and product teams. 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 Organization Management industry)
August 2004 — July 2006 (2 years )
As the first UXnet (http://uxnet.org) Local Ambassador in London, I organized local UX focused events and social gatherings.
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Columnist
Digital Web Magazine
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
February 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Wrote an information architecture column for Digital Web Magazine (http://digital-web.com).
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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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DeVry University
B.S. , Information Technology
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Pennsylvania State University
B.S. , Science
Minor in Science, Technology and Society
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- Student Counselor
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University College London, U. of London
M.S. , Human Computer Interaction
Thesis: Accessible and Usable Web Design
http://unraveled.com/publications/accessible_usable_web_design/
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Joshua Kaufman’s Interests:
interaction design and research, writing, speaking, connecting, community building, science, movies, coffee, running, skateboarding
Joshua Kaufman’s Groups:
IxDA, BayCHI, UX Book Club San Francisco
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UX Book Club
Joshua Kaufman’s Honors:
Radar.net, 2008 People’s Voice Webby for Best Mobile Social Network
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