Zack Kurland
UX Designer
Conceiving & creating lots of digital things.
I ideate, create, collaborate, define, design and communicate interactive experiences. I work at and with creative digital agencies, technology teams and clients. I make wire-frames, story maps, user flows, personas, digital eco systems, etc. Lately my work has been a great mix of Youtube channels, Facebook brand pages/applications, iPad applications, as well as websites and rich media ads. Recent clients include Johnnie Walker, Griffin Editions, Claritin, Glaxo Smith Kline, Merc, Chase, Kraft foods, Ketchum, Kodak. I lead teams in Agile UX exercises, sketching on paper, using white boards and post its with sharpie markers. I love the process of exploring and refining ideas into beautiful designed documentaion and user interfaces. I work both on and offsite on a Mac in Omni Graffle, or InDesign if need be.
Current Status
- UX Designer at EuroRSCG (freelance)
- Designing and producing digital experiences for some really amazing fine artists, and art world, rock world and skateboard culture related things.
- Recording lo-fi heavy rock records as Purple Knights (first EP coming out on iTunes and Amazon March 21).
Some history
After graduating from Parsons School of Design for Illustration in 1995 I lived in a van touring the US and England playing bass guitar for a rock band called Sweet Diesel. When I was home in NYC I got a job at SonicNet moderating online chats with hip hop and rock stars, which quickly morphed into defining and producing features and content for the website. I drew my first site map in 1996. I've been making websites ever since, except for the some time spent traveling in India, doing Yoga and searching for the meaning of life in my late 20s (sadly many years ago). In recent years I've refined my focus primarily to UX Design, while applying my many years of technical digital production experience to insights, leadership and strategy in actually getting things made on time and within budget.
If this is at all interesting to you please feel free to read all the gory details on my Linkedin profile.
Recent UX work that is now LIVE
Websites I've produced
Some recent websites that I defined, designed and produced...
within the past year
floydcontemporary.com
kcdcskateshop.com
usfraonline.org
ericcahan.com
creditscorequiz.org
and some that are a little older
gardner-nelson.com
powerofaction.com
alleghany.com
thinkassuredguaranty.com
vantagescore.com
dosequis.com
thinkagain.theatlantic.com
shuuemuraartofhair-usa.com
atlanticphilanthropies.org
hks.harvard.edu
iop.harvard.edu