About Garrick Van Buren
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. Garrick also built Kernest – the first web font licensing service.
Recent Projects; No More Servers.com, RealTimeAds.com, CagedTweets.com, Cullect.com, Kernest.com.
Garrick and his projects have been mentioned in the following books:
Jason Cranford Teague’s Fluid Web Typography and John Allsopp’s Developing with Web Standards – on using Kernest.com-delivered fonts on your website.
Julio Ojeda-Zapata’ Twitter Means Business – on how Cullect’s commenting engine made it easy to integrated Twitter posting into your website.
Peter Van Dijk’s Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success – about his fast, informal research methods
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
