Kevin Riordan Looking Outwards-08

INST-INT 2013 – Jared Ficklin from Eyeo Festival on Vimeo.

I chose to do this week’s Looking Outwards on Jared Ficklin. He is based in Austin, Texas, and he is currently a partner and Lead Creative Technologist at ArgoDesign. In his past, he worked at frog, becoming one of four frog fellows for his work. He is most interested in the interactions between user-experience and touch and multi-touch, and using physics to enhance the user’s experience. I admire the way he approaches his work, and his motto which is “Think by making, Deliver by demo”. He believes that the best way to integrate cutting edge technology is by using user experience simulation as early in the process as possible, which is something I admire.

In his presentation at INST-INT 2013, he talked about organizing frog party, which is the unofficial name for the opening to the SXSW interactive. I enjoyed his presentation style of making little jokes throughout to keep the audience engaged, while still making sure the important information was included. His slide design was also very nice, which is something I will be incorporating into my own presentations. He focused on the user experience entirely, not getting into the technical stuff at all, which was interesting to me.

His bio can be found at http://www.argodesign.com/jared-ficklin-bio.html