Presenting at the Delve Conference, photo by Eddie Welker

Hi, I’m Anders Ramsay, and I am a user experience designer, strategist, and generally obsessed with making software easier to use. Since designing and building my first commercial website for an imaging service bureau I was working for in the mid to late 90′s, I have continually explored ways of more effectively bridging the Yes/No world of computers with the fuzzy Maybe-this/Maybe-that world of people.

After completing a degree in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Michigan School of Information in 1999,  I then worked at agencies large and small as well as a multi-national and a startup, leading the design of both consumer-facing websites and enterprise applications.  Some of the clients I have worked for include AOL, CBS, Deutsche Bank, FOX , JP Morgan, Sony Pictures, Turner Broadcasting, Viacom, and the City of New York.  If you would like to see samples of my recent work, please contact me.

I am highly active in the User Experience Design Community, including leading the NYC IA Meetup since 2003,  organizing a retreat for information architects in 2005, participating as a mentor to aspiring practitioners via the Information Architecture Institute Mentoring Program. Recently, I started the Agile Experience Design Meetup, as well as the Agile Experience Design social network.

I have contributed articles to the Boxes & Arrows online magazine, such as my recent article “Prototyping with XHTML,” and have also been a speaker and panelist at events and conferences, including two recent talks on Agile and User Experience Design, “Agile for the rest of us“at the 2009 IA Summit, and “Agile for UX Practitioners” at the Delve UI Master Class Conference.

I also have a book in progress, Agile Experience Design, to be published in 2011 by Rosenfeld Media.

I am currently a UX Strategist and Designer at ThoughtWorks, a global IT Consulting firm with a long tradition of Agile software development.

If you’d like to get in touch, please use the online contact form.

Thanks for visiting!