Wes designs websites, makes art, and collects non-fiction graphic novels.
UX designer @ the open source software company Red Hat. Freelancer locally in the gift economy. Vermonter who tries to get outside. Please don't mind the mess. Welcome, friend.
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Making a plan, then collecting and filling gaps in memories
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with Being Dead
Work
My sweet spot is untangling complex problems. Always collaborating. Reusing where possible and questioning boundries often. I aspire to empower other designers to unblock themselves and make their own informed decisions.
🌳 Web design
Check out 17 online presences I spruced up. For personal projects, I code and design them; otherwise, it’s collaborating with engineers.
✂️ Research
Orchards require pruning. Websites require maintenance. Read a few examples of user research I contributed to.
Work status
Currently
Red Hat: Sr. UX designer specializing in hairy, system-based projects on redhat.com like navigation. Also, ux research and ops.
Before that
iMarket Solutions: 1st designer at Vermont startup. Designed 200+ sites for HVAC & plumbing companies. Spearheaded design ops and research initiatives.
Way before that
Brady People ID: Designer at an I.D. company, doing typography, layout, and print.
Fidelity: Where I leaped from print to the web design & dev.
⚔️ Freelance: Where I dove deep into web work with agencies and clients directly.
Previous, local collabs: AALV (Association of Africans Living in Vermont), Pine Island Community Farm: A Farm for New Americans, Green-up Vermont, Burlington’s Code for America brigade.
Lists of note
Cultural inputs
John Steinbeck | Andy Shauf | Wendell Berry | Joe Sacco | Charles Eisenstein | David Wain | Neville Goddard | Jeffery Lewis | Studio Ghibli | Whitney | Protomartyr | Please dont destroy | David Graeber
Edible perennials in my yard
Aronia | Apple (Sweet sixteen, Liberty, Baldwin standard, Reine De Reinette) | Beach plum | Blueberry | Cherry (Surefire) | Hazelbert | Honeyberry | High bush cranberry | Currant | Elderberry | Gooseberry | Mulberry | Nanking cherry | Native plum | Pawpaw | Pear | Ramps | Raspberries | Rhubarb | Sun chokes | Winterberry | Witch hazel
Web homages to books
Radical comics library | Wobblies graphic novel: timeline | A People’s History of the US: CSS book cover | Be Here Now: CSS book cover.