Nick Finck
Nick Finck is a UX & design professional, advisor, mentor, coach, speaker[1] and is the founder of Craft & Rigor, a design operations consultancy, in Seattle, Washington. He is known as the co-creator of progressive enhancement.[2] Nick was a co-creator if the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Education Task Force curriculum (Interact/WaSP) which was later merged into the W3C’s learning material.[3]
Nick Finck | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 March 1975 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Design Professional |
| Employer | Craft & Rigor |
| Known for | Progressive Enhancement |
| Spouse | Megan Gill |
| Children | Luka & Sofia |
| Parent | William And Marilyn Finck |
He was the founder and publisher of Digital Web Magazine, a publication for web professionals, in 1996 until it ceased publication in 2009.[4]
Nick was a founding member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP), and a founding member of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI). He was also the Pacific Northwest Ambassador for UXnet prior to it being disbanded in 2010.[5]
Professional background
In 1994 Nick established his first web consultancy, Designs by Nick Finck, based out of Portland, Oregon. Since then he has headed up design a research at many agencies and tech product & service companies.
Nick was the head of design & research at AWS (2013-2015), product design manager for Platform at Facebook (2015-2017), he was the head of design & research at Ubermind (2011-2013) which was acquired by Deloitte[6] in 2012, the head of design & research and founder of the Seattle office of projekt202 (2013), and co-founder of Blue Flavor (2005-2011) that was acquired by Blink[7] in 2010.
See also
- NickFinck.com (personal website)
- Progressive enhancement (co-creator)
- Information architecture
- liquid web design
Interviews
- Aurelius Podcast - Episode 46 – Leadership, career progression, hiring & job hunting in UX with Nick Finck
- Making UX Work with Joe Natoli - Episode 17, Nick Finck - removing fear, reaching out and remaining hungry
- User Defenders podcast - Episode 036 - No Designer Left Behind with Nick Finck
- iStockPhoto
- South by Southwest Tech Report
References
- previous speaking engagements
- Nick Finck & Steven Champeon coined Progressive enhancement at the SXSW Interactive conference on March 11, 2003 in Austin.
- Interact/WaSP
- Digital Web Magazine closes its doors
- UXnet disbanded on Friday, June 18th, 2010
- Deloitte Acquires Ubermind; Establishes Lead in the Mobile Revolution
- Blink Interactive, Inc. Acquires Blue Flavor