Hi. I'm Gary Bacon. I am a Principal Product Designerd who has 18+ years of experience with UX Design, UX Research, and front-end development. Rapid prototyping, iterative design, data-informed decisions, and human centered design thinking are at the core of what I do.
Most of all, I’m a lifelong learner. I read about 20-30 books a year. Subjects range from business to user experience and everything in between. I also continue to stay sharp with courses at Treehouse, blogs such as UX Booth & Smashing Magazine, and learning by practicing my craft via side projects.
I’ve been mentioned or written about in Bloomberg, ABC News, The Baltimore Sun, and US News & World Report.
I’ve worked on a wide variety of projects including:
- User Interface Designer for Monster Government Solutions ( monster.com ) including producing valid 508 compliant front-end code, and general design consultation.
- Created the 2008-2011 design for ThinkProgress.org, a WordPress based blog, which has approximately 2.4 million unique visitors a month. Awards the design went on to win: 2009 Webby Awards Official Honoree, and 2009 W3 Gold Award.
- Performed front-end web development work for CrowdFusion, a premium online publishing platform.
- Launched a bacon stickers app, Mister Bacon, which has been used by thousands in over 42 countries. It contains over 100 hand drawn illustrations that I created.
- Designed for startups and businesses in NY, DC, VA, MD, FL, PA, and Canada.
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