Garrick Van Buren is President of Working Pathways, Inc. a web application strategy and design company. He has assisted companies like Sun Microsystems, Target, Orbitz.com, and countless start-ups in developing and maintaining a customer-centric web presence. Garrick co-founded and contributes to the MNteractive.com and PodcastMN.com communities, and continues to publish one of the first podcasts – The First Crack Podcast, he also occasionally writes for Minnov8.com.

Recent Projects; RealTimeAds.com, CagedTweets.com, Cullect.com, More about Me

Garrick’s been mentioned in:

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  Peter Van Dijk’s Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success – about his fast, informal research methods
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  George Colombo’s Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting (Absolute Beginner’s Guide) – about how he presented commenting and ratings at the First Crack Podcast.

People ask Garrick to:

• consolidate and simplify complex web applications.
• infuse the customer in the product strategy of their new web application.
• design how their websites and web applications work (information architecture/interaction design).
• set up a weblog, incorporate RSS, and generally make their online publications easier, more usable, and more sustainable.
• understand how to make RSS and podcasting work for them.

Ways to contact Garrick:

• Voicemail: 612 284 4148
• Skype: firstcrack
• Email: garrick.vanburen at gmail.com
• AIM/iChat/Yahoo: grrr1ck
• Twitter: @garrickvanburen
• Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/garrickvanburen
• Garrick’s Résumé.pdf