Chief Experience Architect at Blast Radius
Toronto, Canada Area
- Current
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- Chief Experience Architect at Blast Radius
- Past
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- Senior Creative Director at Blast Radius
- Director, User Experience at Blast Radius
- Creative evangelist, talent market strategist at Bernard Hodes Group
- Chief Creative Officer, Partner at Animatics
- Education
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- Dawson College
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Mark Ury’s Summary
Lacking a label, someone once called me a creative entrepreneur. It stuck.
My professional interests are product, service, and brand design, particularly when they are intertwined, ambiguous, and early-stage. My skills are an ability to combine critical thinking, practical strategy, design empathy, and common sense to prototype and visualize ideas and opportunities.
If anything typifies my work, it’s the desire to create things that have a purpose in people’s life and create a hint of product or service lust.
Personally, I’m intrigued by people with a restless mind, especially at the intersection of culture, business, design, and technology.
Apparently, I'm an herbivore.
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I adore:
Professionally,
-turning products into services
-CEO’s who are still willing to take risks
-the ambiguity that precedes clarity
-that small truly is big, no matter what fad
Personally,
-tenacity, but not pushiness
-wit, particularly of the British/Yiddish variety
-honesty, even brutal
-eclecticism, not eccentricism
Artistically,
-The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Patty Griffin, Springsteen’s heir apparent
-Aimee Bender’s An Invisible Sign of My Own
-Jessica Hagy’s worldview
Mark Ury’s Specialties:
service design, brand and positioning strategy, startups and new ventures, user experience strategy and design, ethnography, usability, design systems
community design, social networks, platforms and social media, peer production and innovation, prosumers, edge competencies
web and mobile applications, widgets, open standards, microformats, social algorithms,
media, entertainment, retail, consumer goods, travel and tourism
Mark Ury’s Experience
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Chief Experience Architect
Blast Radius
(Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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Senior Creative Director
Blast Radius
(Internet industry)
September 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 4 months)
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Director, User Experience
Blast Radius
(Internet industry)
August 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 2 months)
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Creative evangelist, talent market strategist
Bernard Hodes Group
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
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Chief Creative Officer, Partner
Animatics
(Internet industry)
1996 — 2000 (4 years)
Mark Ury’s Education
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Dawson College
Journalism 1984 — 1986
Mark Ury’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
