Okay,
just a little about me,
Tim Aidlin:
I’m the Creative Director for DevExpress, a great company geared toward making user-interface tools helping software developers create amazing applications more efficiently, quickly, and beautifully.
My current business and creative focus leans toward creating multi-channel experiences crossing platforms — Windows 8 applications, Web sites and apps, mobile, and tablet/touch applications. Looking toward our interconnected and digital future, understanding how users consume information and interact with our systems is paramount to fostering brand-loyalty and providing the best experience to our customers, friends, families; all thoughtfully designed and developed for end-user goals and situational concerns.
Designing these experiences isn’t just pixels on the screen: it’s understanding the underlying technologies powering these platforms; knowing through research how users are interacting with these interfaces on their desktops, on their couches, how our *children* interact with some of these systems while on long roadtrips, bored, in the back of our cars.
With well over 10 years as a designer in the digital arena, things have changed, and will continue to do so. My goal is to remain on the leading edge through work on incredible cutting-edge projects, teaching, presenting new ideas at various conferences, and continuing to interact deeply in the design community both in Seattle and well beyond.
Hit me up. Let’s talk.
Contact Tim
tim@thunderkick.us
206.427.0664
Work History
Creative Director, DevExpress
Principal User-Experience Designer, Dashwire
Principal User-Experience Designer & Owner, Rasterize
Senior/Lead User-Experience Designer & Evangelist, Vertigo Software
User-Experience Designer & Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Senior Designer, Razorfish
Product Designer, MSN Shopping / Windows Live Shopping, Microsoft Corporation
Designer, RealNetworks
Principal Designer, Sur La Table
Professional Experiences
Art & Creative Direction
User Interaction Design
User Experience Design
User Research
Client Presentations
Information Architecture
Concepting, including Sketching, Wireframing, & Prototype Design
Production Design
Cross-media Branding and Styleguides
Project Management including legal and financial aspects
Public Speaking
Technologies
HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript (and libraries like jQuery)
Silverlight / WPF / XAML Design
Speaking Engagements
Seattle
School of Visual Concepts: HTML5 + CSS3 Crash Course
Aquent: HTML5 + CSS3 Crash Course
IxDA Panel: Genius vs. Collaborative Design
Giant Campus: User Experience and Interactive Design
Los Angeles
PDC09: Designing with Microformats
Las Vegas
MIX08: Designing with WPF & Microsoft Expression Blend
MIX09: Designing with Microformats
Australia
ReMIX 08: Designing with WPF & Microsoft Expression Blend
Norway
ReMIX 08: Designing with WPF & Microsoft Expression Blend
Dusseldorf, Germany
Designing Multi-Channel Experiences
Web-Presence
Thunderkick
DevExpress
Twitter
LinkedIn
MIX Online
Klout
BranchOut
