Nick Finck is a UX & design professional, advisor, mentor, coach, speakerprevious speaking engagements and is the founder of Craft & Rigor, a design operations consultancy, in Seattle, Washington. He is known as the co-creator of progressive enhancement.Nick Finck & Steven Champeon coined Progressive enhancement at the SXSW Interactive conference on March 11, 2003 in Austin. 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.Interact/WaSP
He was the founder and publisher of Digital Web Magazine, a publication for web professionals, in 1996 until it ceased publication in 2009.Digital Web Magazine closes its doors
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.UXnet disbanded on Friday, June 18th, 2010
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 DeloitteDeloitte Acquires Ubermind; Establishes Lead in the Mobile Revolution 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 BlinkBlink Interactive, Inc. Acquires Blue Flavor in 2010.
See also NickFinck.com (personal website) Progressive enhancement (co-creator) Information architecture liquid web design
Interviews Aurelius Podcast - Episode 46 – Leadership, career progression, hiring & job hunting in UX with Nick Finck Making UX Work with Joe Natoli - Episode 17, Nick Finck - removing fear, reaching out and remaining hungry User Defenders podcast - Episode 036 - No Designer Left Behind with Nick Finck iStockPhoto South by Southwest Tech Report
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