About

LinkedIn: Profile here.
Email: You can write to “inkblurt” at gmail.

I’m a User Experience Designer, currently working as an Information Architect at the quite wonderful mutual fund company Vanguard. Previously I’ve done UX-related work for companies like American Express, Sealy, Wachovia, Shaw and Kimberly-Clark. While my day job takes a good deal of my time, I do work with the occasional freelance client. (So let me know if you’re interested!)

I’m also a writer; while lately most of my writing has been related to my work, I also manage to scribble (and sometimes even publish) the occasional bit of poetry or fiction. I’ve been typing things into the webernets since 1992, but didn’t have a proper ‘blog’ until around 2000. (Earlier incarnation was called Drewspace; this current blog used to be called Meme-Kitchen).

I’ve been designing information systems in one way or another since 1991, and involved with the Information Architecture and User Experience community since 1999. I co-founded the Information Architecture Institute in 2002, and currently serve on its Board as Director of Professional Practice. I’m a big believer in the practice of information architecture, which (to my mind) concerns the design of contexts and their connections in digital space. These days, to regular folks, I’m more likely to say I’m a “User Experience Designer” who specializes in IA.

Atlanta, Georgia is my birthplace, and I’ve spent most of my life in Southern environs. I lived for five years in Pennsylvania (2003 – 2008), most of it in the fabulous town of Phoenixville, home of The BlobFest. Then in December 2008 I moved back south, and now reside in Charlotte, NC, where I’m living closer to my awesome kid, Madeline, and various and sundry extended family.

About this blog: while I do write about my profession here, this is still a general purpose blog where I write about all kinds of things, including politics and religion. These are my views alone and they don’t represent those of my employer, family, friends or pets.