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About Me

David Humphrey, a Interaction Designer, graduated from the Masters program of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2008. After a B.Des degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada he worked as a Interaction Designer in the e-learning courseware industry producing interactive multimedia applications for medical researchers, offshore technology industries and Fortune 500 companies, including KPMG and Microsoft. During the last three years, he focused on narrative and storytelling, information architecture, usability, interface design, and human-centered experience design. David teaches at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in the Communication Design Department. While there he instructed a course on interactive essentials introducing design research methods to second year undergraduate students.

Currently based in Vancouver, he has joined Kodak, a leading developer, manufacturer, and distributor of digital solutions for the graphic arts and printing industries. Kodak’s software systems are the world’s leading solutions in the print industry.

As an Interaction Designer, responsibilities include the user experience and overall visual direction of a world class, sophisticated software suite, additionally making decisions on usability. Working closely with software development teams, often one-on-one with developers, to design, refine, and produce appropriate user experiences to inform and direct the user interface designs. This work encompasses the full development cycle of the product, from inception, through design, to final production. Design research and design methodologies carry through the interface design and graphical components for final implementation, and cumulating in beautiful and functional user interfaces for Kodak clients