Designer and web developer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Head of Design at Rdio
- Designer and cofounder at EveryBlock
- Past
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- Interactive Designer at Apple
- Designer and Commercial Development Manager at Lawrence Journal-World
- Art Director, Web Designer at PilgrimPage
- Web Designer at 401 Design
- Education
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- University of Kansas
- Wichita Collegiate School
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Wilson Miner’s Summary
I'm a designer and web developer in San Francisco.
Wilson Miner’s Specialties:
Visual and interaction design, web applications, web standards and usability.
Wilson Miner’s Experience
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Head of Design
Rdio
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
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Designer and cofounder
EveryBlock
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
I’m the designer and cofounder of EveryBlock, a site that gathers local news and public information and filters it by location to provide “a news feed for your block.”
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Interactive Designer
Apple
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year )
As a designer and web developer at Apple, I worked on the first comprehensive redesign of apple.com in more than 10 years. I helped design and build key site elements, and I developed the core CSS architecture that underpins the apple.com site worldwide.
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Designer and Commercial Development Manager
Lawrence Journal-World
(Online Media industry)
December 2003 — June 2006 (2 years 7 months)
In 2005, I was one of four people that helped create the original version of the Django web framework. I designed the admin interface, which is considered one of the framework’s most unique and appealing features. I also designed the site and logo for the open-source Django project.
I also managed the initial development and marketing of Ellington, the first commercial CMS software built on Django. -
Art Director, Web Designer
PilgrimPage
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 5 months)
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Web Designer
401 Design
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
May 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 4 months)
Wilson Miner’s Education
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University of Kansas
BS , Journalism, Strategic Communications, Italian , 1999 — 2003
Graduate of Distinction, National Merit Scholar
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Wichita Collegiate School
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Wilson Miner’s Honors:
Shared the grand prize in the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism for chicagocrime.org with Adrian Holovaty.
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