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DAN SAFFER 1134 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
415.373.8749
http://www.odannyboy.com
dan@odannyboy.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
Experience Design Director Master of Design, Interaction Design Interactive Gestures: Designing
Senior Interaction Designer Carnegie Mellon University Gestural Interfaces
Adaptive Path 2005 O'Reilly, 2008
San Francisco, CA
June 2005 Present Bachelor of Arts, Individual Major Desiging for Interaction: Creating Smart
Design websites, applications, kiosks, mobile UCLA School for the Arts Applications and Clever Devices
devices, and services for this innovative design firm. 1992, cum laude New Riders, 2006
Recruit, hire, mentor, evaluate, and train designers. Translated into Italian, Korean, Japanese
Lead workshops, as well as oversee projects for a
wide variety of clients from startups such as Ning
and Soundflavor to international corporations such "The Cult of Innovation," BusinessWeek,
as Nokia and Time Warner. TEACHING EXPERIENCE March 2007
Adjunct Professor
Senior Interaction Designer "Everything You Wanted To Know About
Carnegie Mellon University
Ameritrade (Datek) Designers (But Were Afraid To Ask),"
Pittsburgh, PA
Jersey City, NJ Vitamin, September 2006
Spring 2004 and 2005
January 2002 June 2003
Taught interface and interaction design
Led the experience design efforts on applications fundamentals to undergraduates.
"Interaction Design: An Introduction,"
and websites for the largest online brokerage BusinessWeek, July 2006
serving nearly three million users.
Creative Lead PRESENTATIONS PATENTS
Plural "Tap is The New Click," ETech 2008, Charmr Diabetes Management System
New York, NY WebVisions 2008 Provisional Application #60/955,625
June 2000 May 2001
Managed experience design teams in the creation Soundflavor DJ
of websites and applications. Hired and managed "UX Intensive: Interaction Design,"
creative teams.
Provisional Application #60/823,241
San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago,
Amsterdam, Vancouver 2007-8
Producer
Organic, Media Circus
AFFILIATIONS
and Funny Garbage "How to Lie with Design Research,"
New York, NY Design Research Conference 2007 Founding Board Member, 2005-8
July 1998 June 2000 Interaction Design Association
and September December 2001
Oversaw the creative and technical visions "Playful Interaction Designs," Member
for projects of up to 40 people and $8m budgets From Business to Buttons 2007, Industrial Designers Society of America
for start-ups through Fortune 100 companies. Malmö, Sweden
Senior Interactive Developer
American Interactive Media "Learning Interaction Design CLIENTS
New York, NY from Las Vegas," BayCHI 2007 and
1997 1998 SXSW 2007 Cablevision, City of Chicago, CNN,
Foxmarks, Greenpeace, IBM, !ndigo,
Webmaster Lucent Technologies, The New York
W.W. Norton and Company "Enough With The Hammers Already," Times, Ning, Nokia, Plazes, Scripps
New York, NY Design Thinkers 2006 Network, Soundflavor, Tiffany & Co.,
1995 1997 Warner Bros.
Oversaw all aspects of the design and operation "The Role of Metaphor in Interaction
of wwnorton.com.
Design," IA Summit 2005