404 UXD is a team of user experience professionals working in Room 404 (literally) of our Dallas, Texas office. We are part of EMC’s User Experience Design competency. Yes, EMC does design, and we are a passionate part of that design force with expertise in design, development, user experiences, content management and more.
Blog Contributors
Alex Bischoff
Alex is a Front-End Developer for EMC. He's down with XHTML and considers CSS a close friend. And with his background in computer science, DOM Scripting doesn't get short shrift either. At the end of the day, though, the morsel of the Front-End pie which he finds most toothsome is accessibility — you know that affable guy that you met at Access U, perhaps with a DSLR camera around his neck? That might have been this guy.
- Recent entries by Alex:
- Forms: Definition Lists or Tables?
Brent Stephens
Brent is the Regional Manager for EMC’s Kansas City office. He has extensive experience leading solution-oriented global pursuit teams responsible for uncovering and defining complex business needs. His builds relationships with clients in a variety of industries - including: manufacturing, retail, distribution, and financial services. Brent earned a BS in Business Administration from North Carolina Wesleyan University.
- Recent entries by Brent:
- Kansas City - Top 10
Christian Bradford
Christian is a Front-End Developer and Information Architect for EMC in Dallas, specializing in standards-based development and accessibility. Quietly enthusiastic, he loves all manner of social media, staying up late to post and geotag his photos, annoying his lovely wife to no end. Unfortunately, he is also a fan of overlong, needlessly complicated sentence structure.
- Recent entries by Christian:
- Triple Code Crunch Slides
- Aging Suit Aids Accessibility in Car Design
- Sketch Paper for Mobile Design
- SharePoint Bound
Dave Jimenez
Dave is not shy when sharing his opinion on just about anything: Technology, NY Yankees – whatever. He has a technology background that started in infrastructure and moved to web-based collaborative solutions. Dave has worn many hats, and has insight into many of the critical business aspects at EMC. He loves helping customers solve challenges in creative ways. He lives in Arlington, TX with his wife, Angela, and their two children, Austin and Allie.
- Recent entries by Dave:
- Lead or Fail
- Why Are We Blogging?
Garrett Dimon
Garrett truly enjoys sharing his ideas about making the web a better place for humans. Whether it's improving markup or CSS, or using Design to create more usable experiences, or just sharing ideas and opinions on interfaces, he's genuinely excited about the day that people aren't intimidated or held hostage by technology. Currently, he's at Next Update, hard at work on a not-so-secret project, Sifter.
- Recent entries by Garrett:
- Smart Palettes in Omnigraffle
- Easy to Use
- Thinking and Leaping
- Balancing Design, Technology, and Business
Jeff Adams
Jeff is currently a Front-End Developer at EMC who loves to code interfaces according to web standards using XHTML and CSS. His greatest professional thrill is making sites that are accessible and usable across all modern, and some not-so-modern, browsers.
- Recent entries by Jeff:
- ATM Interface Design
- The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I'd Never Write
- Things touch
Jared Christensen
Jared is a quiet fellow with strong opinions. As an all-round user experience designer, currently at Viewzi, Jared makes sure that interfaces are human-friendly, emotive, aesthetically pleasing, clear, on-brand and usable – with a touch of mellow smoothness. He also fancies himself to be somewhat of a writer, but sadly he has little to say.
- Recent entries by Jared:
- A Rant on Design Concepts and Confidentiality
- Virtual Cable™ Car Navigation
- OLPC XO-2
- Link
- Axiotron Modbook
Johnny Pitts
Johnny is the Managing Principal for the Texas EMC Consulting Office. He has seen UX work win clients back time and time again and believes it's a vital part of our projects and (ahem) our profits.
- Recent entries by Johnny:
- The times, they are a changing
- Waiter... My Kool-Aid Tastes Funny
Matt Donovan
Matt is a Visual Designer at EMC, who hails from a background in photography and videography. He loves communicating. Whether visually or verbally, connecting with people is his passion. In every design, his goal is to understand and be understood by his audience.
- Recent entries by Matt:
- Branding of a hypothetical Wes Anderson Film Festival
- The Impress
- Stream of consciousness on Microsoft Surface
- Welcome. Now, don't come back.
- I have my reasons
Matt Heard
Matt Heard is an Information Architect at EMC. He is deeply suspicious of the Kool-Aid.
- Recent entries by Matt:
Mark Kraemer
Mark is an Information Architect and Principal Consultant at EMC in Dallas. His professional life is a Venn diagram, where he lives in the intersection of the folks who wear suits and the designers who wear flip-flops. You can catch his other ramblings on user experience and design at his personal blog, Mark-up.
- Recent entries by Mark:
- The Perfection of Imperfection
- The UXD Stack: How We Look At Projects
- Better living through a Venn diagram
- Make friends, not war
- Nancy Duarte's Tips for Remote Presenters
Nathan Smith
Nathan is a goofy guy who enjoys practicing and preaching Web Standards. He is a client-side ninja at Viewzi and co-wrote a book on open source content management. He advocates accessible use of JavaScript with semantically efficient XHTML and CSS. Off the clock, he is working on a MDiv degree.
- Recent entries by Nathan:
- Enterprise Fire-Flow
- IA as Civil Engineer
- Reply vs. Reply to All
- Barber or Director?
- iPhone, NASA and NASCAR
T. Scott Stromberg
T.Scott is an info junkie (banned by his wife from Half Price Books) which is reflected by his career choice as an Information Architect. He has a love for good design and thoughtful alliteration. When not working on projects for EMC, he can be found relaxing in his studio while listening to classic jazz and attacking a freshly primed canvas with a palette and paintbrush.