About me

I'm not sad, just concentrating. Hi I’m Craig I’ve been a user interface and user experience designer in the Dallas Texas area for over ten years. Professionally I love making web applications that are easy to use and beautiful to look at. I believe in and advocate the use of web standards and making the software and websites I design as usable and accessible as possible. While some consider “web standards SharePoint site” an oxymoron, I believe that some attention must be given to the client side experience and technologies for a framework as prevalent in the marketplace as Microsoft SharePoint.

Personally, when I’m not pushing pixels for the greater good of mankind, I am spending time with my wife Melisa and my two boys. We fish, hike and sometimes, just sit and stare at one another.

I currently work as a User Experience Design Consultant for Slalom Consulting in Dallas Texas. A great company that has the rare quality of being able to develop great applications with an understanding that to make a great product you have to design it.


About this blog

The whole idea for this blog came to me when I first started researching UI/UX design for SharePoint. At that time I had a difficult time finding individuals specializing in that practice. I have since discovered many really amazing designers who do what I do and hope that my blog can find room among my peers.

My goal on each SharePoint project I am engaged in, is to apply non-programmatic solutions to create a consistent style and experience. I do so currently with the use of XHTML/CSS and JQuery. I’m not adverse to any other solution, these are the tools that I have at my disposal.

On these pages I plan on covering the topics below and how they relate to SharePoint:

  • Requirements Gathering
  • Usability
  • Graphic Design/Custom Master Pages and Layouts
  • Information Architecture and Taxonomy
  • XHTML/CSS
  • JQuery

I’d love it if you took some time to let me know what you think of the blog in general or any of the information contained therein.

Regarding IE6 support for this blog… I just can’t be bothered.


About things that seem arbitrary

  • I used to be really good at waiting tables… It’s harder than you think.

  • I am still a really good cook. I currently cook at an amateur status for my family and friends.

  • I’m a book nerd.

  • My Dad is an architect.

  • I took a typing class in the 7th grade

  • My Great-Grandfather was featured in a “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” cartoon.

  • I had three majors in college. Theology, Fine Art, Animation. Different times. Different colleges.

  • I used to catch fish at a tropical fish warehouse for a living… They are faster than you think.

This seemingly unrelated trivia is a glimpse into the circumstances that conspired to
make me what I am today. A family man who loves web design.