About

LinkedIn: Profile here.
Email: You can write to “inkblurt” at gmail.

I’m Principal User Experience Architect at Macquarium, a UX consultancy based in Atlanta.

Before working with Macquarium, I was Lead Information Architect at  Vanguard. Before that, I was at a now-defunct consultancy called Symetri, where I did UX-related work for companies like American Express, Sealy, Wachovia, Shaw and Kimberly-Clark.

I’ve been designing information systems in one way or another since 1991, and involved with the Information Architecture and User Experience community since 1999. I helped start the Information Architecture Institute in 2002, and I’ve served on its board as both a director and an advisor. I’m a big believer in the practice of information architecture.

Atlanta, Georgia is my birthplace, and I’ve spent most of my life in Southern environs. I lived for five years in Pennsylvania (2003 – 2008), most of it in the fabulous town of Phoenixville, home of The BlobFest. Then in December 2008 I moved back south, and now split my time between Charlotte, NC and Atlanta.

I’m also a writer; while lately most of my writing has been related to my work, I also manage to scribble (and sometimes even publish) the occasional bit of poetry or fiction. I’ve been typing things into the webernets since 1992, but didn’t have a proper ‘blog’ until around 2000. (Earlier incarnation was called Drewspace; and this current blog used to be called Meme-Kitchen).

Disclaimer: while I do write about my profession here, this is still a general purpose blog where I write about all kinds of things, including politics and religion. These are my views alone and they don’t represent those of my employer, family, friends or pets.