About Krys Taylor and This
Website
How does one become a User Experience Evangelist?
I started my career as a hardware technician, building computers and repairing IBM point-of-sale equipment. Quickly, I evolved to internet tech support, and while supporting customers on the phone I found myself designing websites.
I migrated to a professional web design role, and as I was creating brochureware and commerce sites for our customers, I found myself obsessed with ease of use, learnability and consistency.
The rest is history.
I live in the San Francisco Bay area. My hobbies include ballroom dance, rock climbing, photography and archery. I am currently writing a non-fiction book, which takes up much of my spare time.
How does one become a User Experience Evangelist?
I started my career as a hardware technician, building computers and repairing IBM point-of-sale equipment. Quickly, I evolved to internet tech support, and while supporting customers on the phone I found myself designing websites.
I migrated to a professional web design role, and as I was creating brochureware and commerce sites for our customers, I found myself obsessed with ease of use, learnability and consistency.
The rest is history.
I live in the San Francisco Bay area. My hobbies include ballroom dance, rock climbing, photography and archery. I am currently writing a non-fiction book, which takes up much of my spare time.
- This site was designed in Adobe Photoshop on 21 Jan, 2009.
- All of the artwork on this site was hand-drawn and then scanned into Photoshop.
- Visual design took a total of 5 hours.
- The display areas of the site were designed to be viewable in 800x600 resolution, optimal in 1024x768.
- HTML and CSS were hand coded using a text editor called TextPad.
- It was tested in Firefox and Internet Explorer for Windows, and Safari and Camino for Mac.
- HTML and CSS were Validated with HTML Tidy.
- This site has also been tested for readability and
findability with a colorblind user.
- The Mythical User uses Wordpress behind the
scenes.
- I have been programming computers since 1985, when I started on a Commodore 64.
- I have been doing website and user interface design
since 1996.
- This site was printed on recycled electrons using 100% post-consumer concepts.
- No animals were harmed in the making of this site.