Todd D. Blank

Current

• User Experience Consultant, Principal at Todd Blank Design

Past

• Principal Designer at Proxicom
• Art Director, User Experience Designer at ad•hoc group
• Design Partner at Process 39

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Education

• Rhode Island School of Design

Recommended

14 people have recommended Todd D.

Connections

293 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Twitter Updates
• RAVE! iPhone app

Todd D. Blank’s Summary

Todd Blank Design is an award-winning, user experience, Web site, branding and identity design studio, based in San Francisco.

We help our clients tell their stories; we provide them with new ways to interact with their Web site visitors, online communities, stakeholders, customers, suppliers and employees.

Given the relative newness of the Internet, we have excelled in user experience / interactive design since 1990 (five years before the Web) and are considered a pioneer in our industry.

We have provided a wide range of solutions, for various clients, including AOL, Bank of America, Chronicle, Cisco, Disney, IBM, Motorola, San Francisco Arts Commission, SchwabLearning, Sony, Symantec, The Nature Conservancy, Union Bank, Viansa, Viator, Wells Fargo and The Whitney Museum.

See what our clients say about working with us at: http://www.toddblankdesign.com/tbd/test.cfm

Todd D. Blank’s Specialties:

Our specialties include: Web site design and redesign; user experience; branding and identity; and print collateral. Our projects span diverse media including Web, kiosk, hand-held devices and various prototypes.

Todd D. Blank’s Experience

• User Experience Consultant, Principal

  Todd Blank Design

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

  June 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  General Responsibilities:
  * Lead user experience solutions for our clients
  * Grow the studio into a versatile and creative design firm
  * Manage small teams across multiple projects
  * Make complex information clear, accessible and beautiful
  * Develop best practices
  * Develop new business
  * Clarify and tell our client's stories
  * Excel in user experience design
  
  Day-To-Day Activities:
  * Develop information architectures
  * User experience design for various platforms
  * Cross-functional teamwork on Web applications
  * Develop diagrams, process flows, prototypes
  * Conduct usability tests and other research
  * Look and feel design for specific audiences
  * Brand analysis of online "competitive landscape"
  * Extend existing brands and identities online

Additional Information

Todd D. Blank’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Twitter Updates
• RAVE! iPhone app

Todd D. Blank’s Interests:

iPhone app design, Social networks, online communities, mysteries, digital photography, gardening, music, camping & hiking

Todd D. Blank’s Groups:

Guest Lecturer at UC Berkeley Extension, Guest Advisor/Reviewer at SFSU's Design & Industry Graduate Program, Judge Web Marketing Association, Member AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), BayCHI the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), PechaKucha-SF Lecturer, RISD Alumni Association, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Volunteers (work preserving historic ships at Hyde Street Pier and skills of the sea trades), CASS (CA Alliance to Stop the Spray)

•    BayCHI
•    Networked Recruiter (34,197+ total network) 3rd Largest Recruiting and HR & 2nd Largest Agency Group
•    Interaction Design Association
•    Rhode Island School of Design
•    Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
•    Art & Design
•    Communication Arts
•    Proxicom Alumni
•    Sustainable Investment
•    Designers Talk
•    MarketingProfs
•    Graphic Design
•    Creative Design Professionals
•    Data Mining, Statistics, and Data Visualization
•    Digital Personnel
•    Mobile Phone Design
•    Green Graphic Design

Todd D. Blank’s Honors:

Web Marketing Assoc. Web Award
Design Standard of Excellence
MartynLawrenceBullard.com

Web Marketing Assoc. Web Award
B2B & Prof. Services Standard of Excellence
Kovarus.com

Web Marketing Assoc. Web Award
Online Community Standard of Excellence
ScriptFrenzy.org

Web Marketing Assoc. Web Award
Events Standard of Excellence
ScriptFrenzy.org

Web Marketing Assoc. Web Award
Outstanding Site
Advocacy / Non-Profit
ForgottenFacesofAIDS.org

Neilsen Norman Usability Award
Top 10 Corporate Intranets
ChevronTexaco

Herold’s “eeeC” Evaluation
Overall Preferred Website
Excellence in Energy E Communication
ChevronTexaco.com

People’s Choice
Knowledge Sharing
Proxicom, Inc.

International Web Page Award
Best Reference
TimesSquare2000.com

International Web Page Award
Creative Achievement: eCommerce
DayRunner.com

London International Advertising Award
Finalist eCommerce
NetworkSolutions.com

Digital Threads Award
Site of the Month
Organic.com

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