uidesign.net
uidesign.net
was founded by David Anderson, originally as a personal site to
publish a few White Papers. Some former colleagues asked him to
write up some material on UI and publish it on the web, so that
it didn't just get lost in their memories. Somehow it turned into
something greater. Something better. Something much more time
consuming.
The
Kansas City Experience
David
has recently joined the User Experience Group of a major wireless
internet player based in Kansas City as Interaction Designer,
where he is involved in developing leading edge solutions and
techniques for the information age user experience with wireless
technology.
Education
He
has a degree in Electronics and Computing from the University
of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated in 1991
with honours and specialised in Control Engineering.
Past
Life
Previously
his mis-spent youth was idled away as a computer games author.
He wrote a lot of well known games for the Sinclair Spectrum and
later the Amstrad CPC computers. He learned an appreciation for
how to write software that people like, people can use and with
a very low bug count. It was a good apprenticeship.
The
World of Spectrum
website and the Spectrum
FAQ details his career.
After
Graduation
Since
then, he has had a number of jobs including Development Manager
at Rombo, a video digitizer startup responsible for products such
as the Vidi-Amiga 24, and CTO at a startup called MDi Systems,
now Peopledoc. He designed
a bunch of cool image processing products for vertical markets
and something they still sell but its changed a lot, called EasiFile.
After he fell out with the Vulture
Capitalists, he joined IBM as a contractor and they tought
him about BIG projects and proper quality processes.
In
recent years he has held design and architecture positions with
United Overseas Bank in Singapore
and ebeon.com, in
Dublin, Ireland. Most recentlyt he has been involved in WAP services
design for an Irving, Tx based company.
Interaction
Design
About
Interaction Design, David says, "I know what I know from
a combination of God given talent, experience from doing it for
over 15 years and from reading a lot of books. Even those early
games were User Friendly and I'm still proud of a lot of that
early work."
Home
Life
David
lives with wife japanese Mikiko and their Belgian Sheepdog, Jack.
The Anderson family are in a transition phase moving from Plano,
Texas to Overland Park, Kansas. When not producing this website,
David enjoys Mountain Biking and learning Japanese. He can also
been seen in the local park playing "keep up" with a
Soccer ball. "Strange Foreigner" as they say in Japan.
