Hello, and welcome to my site! I'm a digital anthropologist, design researcher, and user experience consultant. I recently left the awesome user experience firm, Bolt | Peters, to join a stealth new startup as CXO (Chief Experience Officer.
My perspective is one of social interaction design -- I believe it's necessary to consider the social and cultural influences of digital technology as well as group behavior in designing experiences. I spent three years in my PhD program working on social search -- understanding the role of social interactions during search and how to design search UIs to consider the broader social context of information seeking. This talk is a synthesis of my work on social search (which includes key concepts as well as wireframes).
I'm also an avid Mechanical Turk experimenteur. I explore new ways to use "crowdsourced" systems, using methods like critical incident analysis. And I quite enjoy drawing comics about my daily experiences. (My comics are all available on scribd.)
Oh, and for the stuff that doesn't really matter: I have an MS in Cognitive Science and undergrad degrees in Science & Technology in Society and Psychology.
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