About Will Evans
About Will Evans
Will Evans is Principal, Experience Design for Twin Technologies with 14 years industry experience in presentation layer and user experience design. His experiences includes directing UX for AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site Gather.com, and UX Architect responsible for the interaction design of Kayak.com. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project at the Laboratory for Computer Science. Prior to Curl, Will was an interaction designer for Dataware working on various search and KM related product suites including KM Suite II and QueryServer.
Will holds masters degrees in business administration, human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. His interests and studies have focused on design, information architecture, human factors and information visualization. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy.
Will is an editor for Johnny Holland, considered the “Core77 of Interaction Design,” and blogs about philosophy, networked publics, art and identity at http://blog.semanticfoundry.com
Will Evans weighs more than 80.3 kg in the morning. He’s American with thick dark brown wind swept hair (except when its held in place by various salon products). He nearly became an investment banker when he left school (Occidental College ‘94) and started work for a Boston real estate investment firm. For three reasons, he didn’t.
* He found excitement in computers, art, and ideas;
* Investment Banking is just a fancy name for accounting;
* He hates accounting.
His favorite wine would be a bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage. Ideally a 1976, but let’s not get too picky. The Grange Hermitage is red of course. His favorite other colour is black. He doesn’t know why, but it’s all that he wears.
OK, OK. For a creative that’s a bit of a cliché. To say he is passionate about ideas is to say that Warren Buffett has a mild, fleeting interest in money. His first love may be for creative ideas but this preoccupation extends to ideas from and for every area of human and non-human activity that involves complex information systems. In other words, all-inclusive. Ideas are what make life worth living for him. It’s probably why he’s always in a classroom, or has his face in a book.
