OR…The Beauty and the Beast. Somehow, I managed to stray off the career path of graphic design and veered left into the world of web application engineering. There are days I feel quite at home, but then there are moments where I just shake my head in disbelief. I have spent hours analyizing why I enjoy designing UI for web applications. I consider myself a design engineer based on the psychoanalysts, yet I have the ability to understand the creations of the left-brainers. I want to eliminate the complexity of everyday processes and make everything around me attractive, orderly and easy. I have this need to fix what the software developers and engineers create….simplify….organize….and make it presentable and usable! I have the upmost respect for the complication and difficulty of backend programming and the talent and skill it takes to design software and program complex data models to work smoothly, without error. It is so important that the artists, engineers, and users unite to create the BEST possible products.

In 2001 while working as a UI consultant for Coriva Inc. I found myself designing interfaces for applications while all my peers were designing creative web sites that blinked, flashed, and were promising great stock options. Yet, I found my passion in the most unlikely place, designing a mutual fund table for a financial institution for weeks. Then the dot.com bust. burst my addiction. and it took a few more years for this dicipline to float to the top of the heap, for another round. I am so excited about the opportunities ahead.

Well, I have not met too many people who have the same skill set. The few Artist-Geeks I have met, have me gasping for air, validating that I am not the only artist-geek on the planet. Please contribute to my blog and give me validation that the world I exist in is not so small.

I hope to share with you my insights as a designer working in the world of engineering as well as, ideas, techniques, and technology.

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