I consider myself a User Experience Designer. I specialize in the design of digital applications created to improve the lives of users and their surrounding environments. I focus first on design that is useful, usable and above all beneficial to those I design for.
I currently help to lead the research and design of an educational content delivery platform. Combining the mentality of students, professors, department heads, project managers and user interface experts, our team works to develop an application designed to manage the distribution and delivery of content in any educational setting. As an Interaction Designer my focus begins with developing an understanding of the user's true desires and conditionally determining from the given information what actual needs persist. These needs are developed into logical work flows and associated interface layouts based on behavioral and development constraints. The application, Pegasus, is currently in its 5th versioning cycle.
Led a team of interaction designers, interface designers and system developers through conceptualization, research, design and development of a creative web-based social communication application. All members worked collaboratively from a distance by utilizing a variety of distance communication tools and techniques.
Design and implementation of a web-based application developed using Flash and a self designed/developed XML database. The application allows users the ability to browse Indiana based artists through an interactive, multi-modal interface of conceptual and geographic maps.
Taught discussion section on understanding and developing social interactions, social computing, introductory Informatics skills and theories such as computational computer understanding, HTML, CSS, and basic coding.
Worked with subject matter experts to create, develop and implement multiple suites of instructional training programs in the areas of office furniture sales, production and installation. Programs were developed for internal sales persons.
Craig Birchler — craig.birchler@gmail.com — 317.523.7419