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Nick Finck

Nick Finck

American design professional

Nick Finck is a UX & design professional, advisor, mentor, coach, speaker[1] and is the founder of Craft & Rigor, a design operations consultancy, in Seattle, Washington. He is known as the co-creator of progressive enhancement.[2] Nick was a co-creator if the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Education Task Force curriculum (Interact/WaSP) which was later merged into the W3C's learning material.[3]

Quick Facts Born, Citizenship ...

He was the founder and publisher of Digital Web Magazine, a publication for web professionals, in 1996 until it ceased publication in 2009.[4]

Nick was a founding member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP), and a founding member of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI). He was also the Pacific Northwest Ambassador for UXnet prior to it being disbanded in 2010.[5]

Professional background

In 1994 Nick established his first web consultancy, Designs by Nick Finck, based out of Portland, Oregon. Since then he has headed up design a research at many agencies and tech product & service companies.

Nick was the head of design & research at AWS (2013-2015), product design manager for Platform at Facebook (2015-2017), he was the head of design & research at Ubermind (2011-2013) which was acquired by Deloitte[6] in 2012, the head of design & research and founder of the Seattle office of projekt202 (2013), and co-founder of Blue Flavor (2005-2011) that was acquired by Blink[7] in 2010.

See also

Interviews

References

  1. [1]
    previous speaking engagements
  2. [2]
    Nick Finck & Steven Champeon coined Progressive enhancement at the SXSW Interactive conference on March 11, 2003 in Austin.
  3. [3]
    Interact/WaSP
  4. [4]
    Digital Web Magazine closes its doors
  5. [5]
    UXnet disbanded on Friday, June 18th, 2010
  6. [6]
    Deloitte Acquires Ubermind; Establishes Lead in the Mobile Revolution
  7. [7]
    Blink Interactive, Inc. Acquires Blue Flavor
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