Travis Isaacs

Current

• Principle Consultant at Improving Enterprises
• Advisory Board Member at Viewzi
• Freelance web designer at http://travisisaacs.com (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

• Director of User Experience at Viewzi
• Sr. Interaction Designer at Sabre Travel Network
• Customer Experience Manager at RadioTime, Inc

• Web Designer at Travelocity
• Webmaster at Ready Reading Glasses

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Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

Recommended

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Connections

176 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Travis Isaacs’s Summary

- Designing and building consumer applications

- Expertise throughout the whole product development life cycle, from design to development

- Evangelism of the User Experience and User Centered Design principles by example and through speaking, blogging, and community participation

When he's not designing, presenting, or coding, Travis also enjoys spending time with his Wife & daughter.

http://travisisaacs.com

Travis Isaacs’s Specialties:

- User Experience
- User-Centered Design
- User Interface Design
- Interaction Design
- Front-End Development
- Information Architecture
- Information Design
- XHTML
- CSS
- Some JavaScript
- PHP
- Mac or Windows
- Adobe Creative Suite

Travis Isaacs’s Experience

• Principle Consultant

  Improving Enterprises

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

• Advisory Board Member

  Viewzi

  (Internet industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

• Freelance web designer

  http://travisisaacs.com (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

• Director of User Experience

  Viewzi

  (Internet industry)

  December 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  Viewzi is a new visual search engine platform and search engine mashup offering user the flexibility to view their search results in a rich and fun new way.
  
  Key accomplishments at Viewzi:
  - Designed the user interface for the core product platform as well as several search products
  - Designed and built a site-search product for content publishers (http://viewzi.com/sitesearch/)
  - Designed and built a media search product for Fortune 500 consumer electronics retailer
  - Significantly improved time-on-site metric through iterative design based on user feedback and consumer
  testing

• Sr. Interaction Designer

  Sabre Travel Network

  (Public Company; TSG; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  February 2007 — December 2007 (11 months)

  As an Interaction Designer at Sabre I was able to apply my passion for information architecture, visual design, and front-end development to travel product used by travel agencies across the globe.
  
  Key Accomplishments at Sabre Travel Network:
  - Evangelized Design and User Experience across the global organization through presentations,
  workshops, and training
  - Gained previously unknown customer insights via a travel agent research study

• Customer Experience Manager

  RadioTime, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  October 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 5 months)

  I was a core team member and sole designer for this Dallas, TX start-up that is making TiVo-for-radio a reality.

• Web Designer

  Travelocity

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)

  I brought the hustle as a staff web designer on the customer experience team @ Travelocity headquarters in Southlake, TX. During my tenure, I handled the "Total Trip" shopping path, as well as some exciting special projects, including the Travelocity Guarantee and contributing early prototypes for Experience Finder.

• Webmaster

  Ready Reading Glasses

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

  October 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Travis Isaacs’s Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  B.A. , Telecommunications , 1999 — 2003

Additional Information

Travis Isaacs’s Websites:

• My Website

Travis Isaacs’s Interests:

web 2.0, css, xhtml, php, information architecture, tagging, web community

Travis Isaacs’s Groups:

Indiana University Alumni Association

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Design Thinking
•    User Experience
•    User Experience Group
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    User Experience Professionals Network
•    Travelocity Alumni

Travis Isaacs’s Honors:

2003 Ideas Fest Winner, Web Designer for Best Game design The Claim To Karas: http://www.ideasfest.org/2003/winners_2003.html

2005 Ideas Fest Winner, Web Designer for Best Game design Gaurdians of Kelthas: http://www.ideasfest.org/2005/winners.htm

Panelist: Interactive Media, Indiana University MultiVisions 2005: http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/multivisions.html


Panelist: Interactive Media, Indiana University MultiVisions 2007: http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/multivisions.html

Travis Isaacs’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
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