Information Design Lead and Creative Technologist
Greater Philadelphia Area
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Kel Smith’s Summary
As manager — Advocates universal design principles, operating cross-functionally between creative and technical teams, to provide highly utile media experiences that benefit users and exceed stakeholder objectives.
As practitioner — Defines and articulates business needs into workable and attractive user experience artifacts: use case documentation, sitemaps/flowcharts, XHTML/CSS compliant wireframes, evidence-based modeling and conceptual prototypes of varying fidelities.
As teacher — Encourages dialogue through such consensus-building techniques as constructivist discovery, iterative self-evaluation and knowledge shared in collaboration.
As writer and speaker — Promotes the tactical and theoretical aspects of good design practice, citing current trends while maintaining focus on consumer value.
Kel Smith’s Specialties:
Interface design, functional and screen-based usability, social technology, information architecture, instructional theory/heuristics, web application development, AJAX (JQuery and Spry), GUI design, Flash/Actionscripting with .NET and Fusebox integration, Section 508/WAI compliance and remediation, conceptual software prototyping, project management.
