About Me

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Background

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For over five years, ux designer, Adam Ruf, has been providing world-class ux design solutions for entrepreneurs and startups in Silicon Valley and around the world. In addition to working as a freelance user experience designer, he currently works with UserTesting.com as a Sr UX Designer & Product Manager to help make usability testing an increasingly easy and automatic part of designing and delivering sites and apps for desktop and mobile.

Interested in working with a UX designer who understands how a Lean UX approach can make a significant difference for your business? Contact Adam to chat about your project--he'd love to see how he might be able to help.

Experience + Skills

  • Adobe Design Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash
  • Hand-Coding: HTML5, CSS3, XHTML
  • Social Media: Google+, Facebook, Twitter
  • Blogs: WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger

Education

  • B.A. in Psychology
    University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, MN
  • Certificate of Intermediate Chinese Language Studies
    Language & Culture University - Beijing, China

Professional Interests

  • Usability & user experience
  • Design, especially for web
  • Mobile web & responsive, adaptive design
  • Typography
  • Information graphics and data visualization
  • Ruby on Rails, SCSS, HAML

Personal Interests

  • Topics: Psychology, Dinosaurs, Art, Sustainable Development, Film
  • Activities: Reading, Hiking, Badminton, Tennis, Swimming, Digital Photography, Board Games, Drawing, Painting, Ping Pong