Essentials
Rainy days, old cities, sci-fi books, good design, banjos in rock music, homemade bread, b&w movies, British television, indy music, creative people, winter skiing, apple cider, the urban character of both NYC and San Francisco, chocolate desserts, sour cherries, Sherlockian trivia, mountain hiking, old trees, bourbon and books.
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About Me
Hi. I’m Travis (and a girl). I can geek out on dashboard design, behavioral design, the future possibilities (and certain disasters) of the Internet of Things, conversational UI, and a bunch of other, substantially more practical, UX things. I find the more I learn about some of them, well, the less any of us really knows. But certainty is so 20th century, right?
For the last few years I’ve been managing the Inclusive Design and Design Systems teams for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We focus on improving page templates and standards, AI patterns, accessibility, data visualization, performance, collaboration, developer satisfaction, and design system patterns for 160+ Cloud products, across 2000+ internal engineers and designers. Before that I was in NYC leading UX for health and wellness products. Many of the clients were from pharma – making websites for doctors and tools for patients to communicate with those doctors. I knew a decent amount about uncomfortable diseases, how bad patients are at explaining things to doctors, how we can use technology to help discussions, and how time-starved and uncertain doctors can be, even when they’re really smart and compassionate.
I’m the former founder of ReadUps, a social-reading web app where books and their conversations have an expiration date, and ReadSocial, an API that adds a social layer inside books and websites, using hashtags to create reading groups. Before those endeavors I poured my soul into BookGlutton.com, a destination site where groups read web-based ebooks with real-time chat and paragraph-level notes. I also contributed a chapter to the O’Reilly book Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto — A Collection of Essays from the Bleeding Edge of Publishing, in Spring 2012.
Prior to founding BookGlutton, I was a creative director at JLOOP and an art production manager at Cisco. I have 20+ years of online experience, and have worked in web design, app design, AI, advertising, health and wellness, publishing, enterprise software and online education. My client history includes: AbbVie, Proctor & Gamble, Cisco, Sprint, Playstation, Wells Fargo, Macys, Midway Games and Dodge. In addition, I’ve been lucky enough to be recognized by Drunken Boat, The Webby Awards, The Flash Forward Film Festival, the W3 Awards and the Electronic Literature Organization. I have a Masters Degree in the ultimate 90′s-sounding, futuristic discipline of Interactive Multimedia.
I can manage varied areas of Product and User Experience. I also used to work independently as a digital artist in New York City. My work focused on finding a sense of place and the meaning of time; I was published in Drunken Boat and The New River Journal. A few examples of interactive art projects include Morpheus: Biblionaut, Dandelion Chance, and 30 Days of Rain (they’re old-school Flash, so put your phone away, bub!).
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