Hello There

I'm Jason, a Web Designer living and working in the sweltering heat of College Station, Texas. I geek out about things like javascript, typography, unicycles, semantics and such. I like a good Pinot Noir—especially if it's from Willamette Valley. After freelancing for a few years, I'm now employed at Texas A&M University as Assistant Director of Communications for the Division of Research. Our team is working on a new site that will tell the stories of research at Texas A&M and the impact it has on our everyday lives. Although attending Web Design school at TSTC Waco, I've gained most of my 8+ years of industry experience through tinkering, messing things up, and building lots of crappy websites.

Work Ethic

The web is a beautiful symphony of interconnected links and structured content. Designing for the web is making well structured content accessible to all no matter what device the user may or may not have. There is no mobile web and there is no desktop web. In order for content to be accessible, you have to design accordingly. Device specific apps still have a place but good Web Design should embody accessibility, structure, flexibility, and aesthetics. There is a process to achieve this balance: Progressive Enhancement

Essential Gear & Software

An 11in MacBook Air is my main computer and I have a 15in MacBook Pro with a 27in Apple Cinema Display in my work office. At home I'm keeping old memories on my late 2007 20in iMac. All are running the latest flavor of OSX. An Android powered T-Mobile 4G MyTouch gets used as my main mobile device. At work, we've gathered a nice range of devices for testing. I keep up with my email accounts using Mail, code with TextMate, and FTP with Transmit. When I need to do image editing, Fireworks is used for sweating the details and Photoshop for deploying filters. Mostly, I do browser comps using WebKit nightly builds and iOS Simulator bundled with Xcode. Having the iPad and iPhone simulation while doing live comps is essential for designing flexible, device agnostic websites.