Welcome to my $.02 on the WWW. I am an interaction designer, information architect, user interface designer, business analyst, design team manager and musician living in metro New York City (some call it New Jersey). Here you will find my resume, examples of my work relating to user experience design including use cases, site maps and wireframes.

Please look around. I am always interested in hearing about freelance and contract opportunities so please drop me a line.

Resume

Resume Highlights:

Expert user interface and interaction designer with proven track record of shipping elegant, usable mass-consumed products in multiple industries

Charismatic leader of both single-discipline and cross-functional teams

Experienced in all aspects of design management

Self-motivated, innovative user experience practitioner with a successful history of evangelizing the benefits of good design at all levels of the organization

Skilled at gathering and refining functional requirements and defining product specifications

Significant experience creating site maps, flow diagrams, wireframes, use cases, persona-based scenarios and functional requirements documents

Expert in human factors principles in information design

Strong understanding of technical concepts, environments, constraints and capabilities

Work Examples

I've compiled a short list of example deliverables on the examples page. These deliverables include:

Sitemaps - Concept diagrams used to illustrate the organization of the content, the flow of tasks and types of screens.
See specific example

Wireframes - Detailed schematics of elements at the page-level showing specific user interface criteria and application behavior.
See specific example

Use Cases - Verbal description of user/system interaction accounting for business rules.
See specific example

Design Specification Documents - To the pixel descriptions of every UI element on the screen and it's interactive qualities.
See specific example

Published Articles

Practical Applications: Visio or HTML for Wireframes?
Published Feb 2003 in Boxes and Arrows

Research Papers

I have written many research papers as part of my graduate work at Bentley College. I have posted some of them below. They are listed by topic. Each has a case study element within it. Most are related to the financial services or ecommerce industries.

Resources

Hobbies

Blog

I keep track of my thoughts at Scattered, Smothered and Covered -- a blog that I update fairly regularly.

Contact

e:jeff@jeffGothelf.com
v:804.307.8799