Principal, Design Less Better
Greater Omaha Area
Principal, Design Less Better
Greater Omaha Area
Designer and software developer, oft-entrepreneur, and occasional product manager, interested primarily in a somewhat granular spectrum of best practices for developing cohesive, well-conceived and tightly branded user experiences for the web.
Brand design, Identity Design, Web design, Web and software development best practices, Web standards, Usability, User Experience, Project management
(Design industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Design Less Better is a small shop providing superior branding, web and identity design. Design Less Better is focused on design best practices in all aspects of user experience.
(Biotechnology industry)
September 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Exmovere is a creative team of scientists, engineers, designers and developers working together to shift the balance of power in the human-technology relationship by researching and developing physiologically and emotionally aware and responsive devices and environments.
(Biotechnology industry)
February 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Responsible for device driver design and development; desktop and web application design and development; DSP algorithm design; software architecture, specification, implementation, planning.
MA, Media Philosophy, 2002 — 2004
Dissertation titled “Dataspace: Agency and Determinacy”, 2004. Published in New York Studies in Media Philosophy, vol.9, 2004. Graduated MA with distinction.
BFA, Fine Arts and Computer Science, 1998 — 2002
Honors Thesis titled “The Computer Art Object”, 2002.
Branding, Identity Design, Web design, Web development, Software development, Web standards, Usability, User Experience, Software best practices, Design best practices, Continental philosophy, World literature, Pop music
Dean's Technology Scholarship, European Graduate School, 2002-2004
Dean's Honorary Scholarship, School of Engineering, Washington University, 1998-2002