Joshua Rudd

Current

Head of User Experience at UserVoice

Past

Senior Interaction Designer at Brick Design
Partner at rearviewWindow LLC
Senior Interaction Designer at Pentagram Design

Design Director at under[de]construction LLC
Freelance Graphic Designer (Self-employed)

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Education

Le Clef, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
University of North Texas

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

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Joshua Rudd’s Summary

Joshua Rudd began working as a graphic designer in 1995 and started developing websites in 1997. After studying communication design and photography at the University of North Texas and Le Clef in Saint Germain-en-Laye, France, he returned to Dallas in 2001 to work as a cultural strategist for City Reach Austin and continue as a freelance designer. In 2004 he began the design/development collaborative under[de]construction and later the photography & new media group, rearviewWindow LLC. In the spring of 2006, Joshua and his family moved to San Francisco and soon joined Pentagram Design as Senior Interaction Designer. In September 2007 he rejoined former colleagues at the newly formed Brick Design.

Joshua has worked with a range of clients including AIGA, Brinks, Inc., California Academy of Sciences, Cannon Design, City of Hope, explore Annenberg, Fuego, Memorex, Microsoft, National University, Nokia Telecommunications, Pentagram Design, Stanford Law School, Starbucks, Symantec and University of California, Riverside.

Joshua Rudd’s Specialties:

* User experience
* Interaction design
* Information architecture and design
* Valid semantic XHTML/CSS markup (hand-coded)
* Microformats
* W3C standards and specifications
* Javascript/AJAX
* PHP development
* Content management system development and integration
* LAMP platform (Linux/Unix, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
* Accessibility
* Version control systems (Git, Subversion)

Joshua Rudd’s Experience

Head of User Experience

UserVoice

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2009 — Present (6 months)
Senior Interaction Designer

Brick Design

(Partnership; Design industry)

September 2007 — July 2009 (1 year 11 months)
Partner

rearviewWindow LLC

(Photography industry)

October 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 3 months)
Senior Interaction Designer

Pentagram Design

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Design industry)

May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Design Director

under[de]construction LLC

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

February 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Freelance Graphic Designer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)

September 1995 — March 2005 (9 years 7 months)