User Experience (UX) Designer, Architect and Strategist | Mick Winters http://mickwinters.com User Experience Designer, Architect & Strategist Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:29:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Choosing Fonts ReMIX South http://mickwinters.com/2011/08/07/choosing-fonts-web-optimized-typefaces/ http://mickwinters.com/2011/08/07/choosing-fonts-web-optimized-typefaces/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:10:42 +0000 Mick http://mickwinters.com/?p=149 Download my ReMIX South presentation slides

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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

Visit Thinking with Type’s Web site for excerpts and brilliant typography.

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Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

Visit the Gamestorming blog for more information and their great Wiki of games to play!

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Storytelling for User Experience

]]> http://mickwinters.com/2011/07/31/book-storytelling-for-user-experience/feed/ 0 National Builder Supply http://mickwinters.com/2011/07/31/national-builder-supply/ http://mickwinters.com/2011/07/31/national-builder-supply/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:27:54 +0000 Mick http://mickwinters.com/?p=111 My primary goal in my new position as Director of User Experience is to improve the e-commerce customer experience for visitors to Nationalbuildersupply.com and the National Builder Supply network of sites.

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In that time, I’m proud to say that I’ve worked with many of THINK’s fine clients, including: Nutro Pet Food, Greenies, Orkin, Windstream, Lazydays, Endorse for a Cause, TakTak Sports, Dymo, Coca-Cola, TPG, and Sears.

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Agency: Macquarium

Starting in November 2009, I’ve been working as a contract User Experience Architect for Yahoo! as a member of the Atlanta-based agency Macquarium. In that time, I have created wireframes, flow charts and content matrices for custom pages and Yahoo! properties such as Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, Shine and Yahoo! Applications (YAPs) for current and pre-sales clients, including:

  • Bank of America
  • Butterfinger
  • Fidelity Investing
  • MasterCard Memorial Cup
  • Purina
  • Scottrade
  • Snapple
  • Sprint
  • Starbucks
  • SunTrust
  • Vaseline
  • Westin
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