Kyle Cooney

Current

Chief Experience Officer at cliqcliq, inc.
Senior Interaction Designer at Yahoo!

Past

Interaction Design / Information Architect at Revolution Health
User experience developer at Computech
Technical Support Project Manager at Threespot

CSS Site Developer at eyeo

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Kyle Cooney’s Summary

Interaction design professional focused on the intersection of online services and social software for high traffic consumer oriented sites and services.

Particular interest in democratizing the design process through agile practices to constantly include feedback from all stakeholders -- from development teams, to marketing, legal, privacy, advertising, through to product management and most important of all, our customers, all the while building consensus on optimal user experiences.

Kyle Cooney’s Specialties:

Interaction and experience design, information architecture, designing search and social software experiences, content management architecture and design, SEO, standards based front-end design (CSS/JavaScript).

Use of common wireframing and diagramming tools such as Illustrator, Visio and Omnigraffle.

Kyle Cooney’s Experience

Chief Experience Officer

cliqcliq, inc.

(Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (4 months)

Co-founded and launched iPhone and web applications company in September of 2008 along with my business partner and former Google engineer.

Co-developed product roadmap for launch of our first product, cliqcliq Colors as well as all future products.

Responsible for design and experience architecture for launch of all new products.

Lead brand development, including voice & tone across all communications (interaction, visual, and editorial)

Responsible for developing strategy for all public relations outreach, marketing and social media.
Senior Interaction Designer

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Senior Interaction Designer for YAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
Interaction Design / Information Architect

Revolution Health

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

March 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Expert in design and integration of consumer health search and community based products.

Lead designer for the 4/19/07 launch of Medicine Chest product. Worked across a multidisciplinary team, including product, clinical, technology, and research teams.

Design included integration of 3rd party data from acquisition of RemedyFind(.com), and working with SME's and researchers to verify and map complex data sets, including over 150,000 user submitted reviews.

In addition to Medicine Chest, I oversaw design efforts of an outside design agency for Revolution Health's Doctor's, Hospitals, and More product up until the 1/1/2007 beta launch. Took control as lead design role for the redesign of the product up until the 4/19/2007 launch of Revolution Health.

Worked within a multidisciplinary team, including product, clinical, technology, and researchers to lead integration of a design that included complex data sets / mappings.
User experience developer

Computech

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

December 2005 — March 2006 (4 months)

User experience front-end site developer focusing on standards based development with clean separations between style(CSS), structure(XTHML) and behavior(JavaScript).

Led design and front-end development team to adoption of web standards for new internal projects at the FCC.

Collaborated with user experience and visual design teams to enhance the user experience and overall functionality of projects at the FCC through appropriate use of modern front-end technologies.
Technical Support Project Manager

Threespot

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

March 2005 — September 2005 (7 months)

Project manager overseeing technical support of over 100 websites and microsites for a national non-profit organization.

Met on and offsite with clients regularly to oversee and improve processes and customer service satisfaction.
CSS Site Developer

eyeo

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

November 2001 — March 2005 (3 years 5 months)

Led company to adoption of standards based, XHTML and CSS compliant websites in early 2002, at a time when major media organizations such as ESPN and Wired had just begun to adopt web standards.

Collaborated with lead Information Architect to construct a leading-edge CSS and XHTML, J2EE based content management system (CMS) utilizing the latest in CMS architecture and design patterns.

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Kyle Cooney’s Interests:

Information architecture, intersection of controlled vocabularies and folksonomies, business development, content management, application design, design/user research, interaction design, standards based (CSS/JS/XHTML) front-end development, persuasive technology. Looking to apply myself more in the worlds of mobile design, as well as offline user experiences.