Nick Bilton

Current

• Adjunct Professor at New York University
• Co-Creator at Shifd
• User Interface Specialist at The New York Times R&D Lab

• Design Integration Editor at The New York Times

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Past

• Co-Founder at The Visual Mafia

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Website

Nick Bilton’s Summary

Nick Bilton’s work over the past 15 year has weaved through many different fields of storytelling & design including graphic design, user interface and user experience, journalism, technology, R&D, advertising, documentary film and teaching.

At The Times Bilton holds two roles, within the newsroom he is responsible for integration in the Design Department between the print paper and nytimes.com, helping rethink visual storytelling through the print to digital transition. Bilton's other role is in The Research & Development Labs where he is charged with exploring the future of the media landscape in the next 2-5 years. His role requires core research of upcoming trends, technologies and reader behaviors and the development of future example prototypes. Some of these include 'smart content' where content follows you around between devices, becoming aware of your location, interests and previous news consumption. Bilton also focuses on 'Newspaper 2.0' where he explores and prototypes content on next generation newspaper devices made from eInk & flexible displays. Bilton was the lead UI designer for the Times Reader. He also helped incubate relationships with Adobe, Google, Microsoft and Nokia.

Along with co-worker Michael Young, Bilton helped incubate a start-up within The Times called ShifD. ShifD came from the duo winning a major technology competition in 2007 called Yahoo! Hack Day. Patent pending.

Outside of The Times, Bilton is an Adjunct Professor at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunication Program. His class is called '1, 2, 10. Designing interaction for the 1 foot—mobile phone, 2 foot—computer and 10 foot—television'.

Bilton speaks regularly around the world at major technology and publishing conferences, Universities and a variety of businesses. His talks cover an array of future topics including "The Futures of News", "The New Storytelling", "Advertising, The Next Storytelling" and "Sensors as Reporters".

Nick Bilton’s Specialties:

Design, User Interaction & User Experience, Futurist, Advertising, Journalism, Editing, Technology, Project Management, Integration, Public Speaker.

Nick Bilton’s Experience

• Adjunct Professor

  New York University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  Adjunct Professor at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunication Program. Class is called '1, 2, 10. Designing interaction for the 1 foot—mobile phone, 2 foot—computer and 10 foot—television'.

• Co-Creator

  Shifd

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

  Along with my co-worker Michael Young, we incubated a start-up within The Times called ShifD.com. ShifD developed from us winning BBC / Yahoo! Hack Day in 2007. Patent pending for the concept and idea behind ShifD.

• User Interface Specialist

  The New York Times R&D Lab

  (Public Company; NYT; Newspapers industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Helping rethink visual storytelling through the paper, web, TV and mobile. Also charged with exploring the future of the media landscape in the next 2 to 10 years. Core research of upcoming trends, technologies and reader behaviors and the development of future prototypes. Some of these include 'smart content' where content follows you around between devices, becoming aware of your location, interests and previous news consumption. Newspaper 2.0 looking at new emerging platforms and flexible displays. A 'future' digital living room we've built and set up, exploring ambient devices, Times content on the TV, mobile relationships, sensors and much more. Lead UX relationship for Times Reader with Microsoft.

• Design Integration Editor

  The New York Times

  (Public Company; NYT; Newspapers industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  Within the newsroom, responsible for integration in the Design Department between the print paper and web and exploration of transitional storytelling.

• Co-Founder

  The Visual Mafia

  (Newspapers industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years )

  Design studio in NYC. Specialized in early web development, packaging design and interactive user experience.

Additional Information

Nick Bilton’s Websites:

• My Website