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(s) | Megan Gill |
| Children | Luka & Sofia |
| Parent(s) | 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 an 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