Tom has been working on the web for the past 10 years. He’s a self-proclaimed web geek with a degree in Computer Science from a small liberal arts college in Oregon. There he learned not only how to code, but how to think about problems and explain incredibly technical solutions in a straight-forward, jargon-free way.
After graduation he spent his first year teaching English to high school kids in Japan by day, and wrote a small, PHP-based content management system by night. After returning, he spent a quick stint down in California converting complex technical documentation into easy to understand web pages before arriving at the Children’s Hospital in Seattle where he designed and developed their numerous web sites.
Tom is an interaction designer. He believes web sites should function as beautifully as they look, and shouldn’t require users to scratch their head trying to figure out how to get things done.
Presentations
- Bridging the designer and developer gap (Webvisions 2007)
Last Five Blog Posts
- New Work: Playbook (formerly Clockwork)
- What’s The Right Amount of Stakeholders?
- The Adobe Rut
- Problems, Not Features
- Tufte Quotes
