Summary
Michael Angeles is a user experience designer residing in New York City. He has worked on the design and development of projects ranging from large scale information systems to web sites for non-profit organizations. Michael is a founding member of the Information Architecture Institute, ran the iaslash community, and was a contributor to the Drupal platform. He now works at Balsamiq and runs the Konigi UX site.
Experience
Balsamiq Studios
Director of User Experience, 2010 - Present
Traction Software
Director of User Experience, 2008 - 2010
Sling Media, Sling Entertainment Group
Information Architect, 2007 - 2008
Alcatel-Lucent
Designer/Developer, 1998 - 1999, 2001 - 2007
Sapient Corporation
Senior Site Developer, 2000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
Site Developer, 1997, Part-Time & Graduate Internship
Freelance and Pro-Bono
Armchair Media (2007), Smart Experience (2007), Thomson Wadsworth (2007), Traction Software (2006-2007), Spike Source (2006), iinterpret (2006), Initsoft (2006), FierceMarkets (2006), Management Innovation Group (2005), Winning Connections, Inc. (2005), Spoons Across America (2004), Information Architecture Institute (2002, 2005 Pro-bono), filamfocus, inc. (1999-2001 Pro-bono), Robin Smith, Esq. (1998), Artlink (1996)
Education
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey,
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Master of Library and Information Science, January, 1998, Grade Point Average: 3.958
Beta Phi Mu, International Library & Information Science Honor Society
Rutgers College
Bachelor of Art, Art History, Minor in Cinema Studies, 1993
Personal and Company Awards & Achievements
- 2007, InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award: Best Enterprise Wiki, Traction Software
- 2002, Co-founder, Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
- 2000, Special Libraries Association, Marketing Competition; Lucent Technologies, Integrated Information Systems Marketing: First place for print marketing materials, Second place for intranet site
- 1998, Rutgers SCILS, Chair's Great Work Award
- 1998, Initiate, Beta Phi Mu, International Library & Info. Science Honor Society
- 1997, Visual Resources Association Nancy DeLaurier Writing Award
- 1997, Metropolitan Museum of Art Graduate Internship
Presentations
- "Sketching Interfaces." Asbury Agile (October 3, 2012)
- "New and Up and Coming Rapid Wireframing and Prototyping Tools." IxDA New York and NYC-CHI (February 21, 2012)
- "Wireframes for the Wicked." South by Southwest Interactive 2009 panel discussion about wireframes, with Nick Finck and Donna Maurer. (March 16, 2009)
- "'No Tears' Method for User Centered Design." Presentation given at DrupalCon Boston (March 4, 2008)
- "Blogs and the Blogosphere: Definitions and reasons to care." Presentation given at Rutgers, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (December 12, 2005)
- "Enterprise Weblogging: Using weblogs for communication & information management." Presentation for the American Society for Information Science & Technology, New Jersey Chapter. (May 20, 2005)
- "Blogging in the Labs: Using weblogs for communication & information management." Presentation for Los Alamos National Laboratory. (April 28, 2005)
- "Utilizing Weblogs for Project Efficiency." Presentation for the IQPC Weblog and Wiki Summit 2005 (January 11, 2005)
- "Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap." Presentation for Computers In Libraries 2004 (March 15, 2004)
- "Blogging in Corporate America." Presentation for September 2003 Usability Professional Association meeting. (September 17, 2003)
Publications
- "Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring." LLRX.com. (November 2004)
- "K-Logging: Supporting KM with Web Logs." Library Journal. (2003, April)
- "Automating diagrams with Visio." Boxes and Arrows. (2002, April)
- "Information Organization and Information Use of Visual Resources Collections." VRA Bulletin, 25 (3), 51-58. (1998, Fall)
- "Analysis and Description of an International Visual Resources Index: A proposal for building an image indexing database." VRA Bulletin, 24 (3), 37-59. (1997, Fall)
Field study
The American Academy in Rome/Superintendent of Archaeology in Rome., Palatine East Excavations 1992 Undergraduate field study
- Field study, excavation of architecture, archival preservation of artifacts recovered from the North East slope of the Palatine Hill, Roman Forum.