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Meet Mark … <br />

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I DESIGN FOR LIFE<br />

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Passion for the User Experience!<br />IA<br />DM<br />V<br />Br<br />UX<br />MENTOR<br />DEV<br />ED<br />

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About Mark<br /><ul><li>In-demand User Experience Designer , Marketer & Information Architect, with over 15 years of experience.

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Polished and persuasive communicator with excellentpresentation, and interpersonal skills

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Proven ability to transform concepts into successful interactive reality.

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Combines creative, artistic talent with P&L mindset to deliver revenue-enhancing, market-oriented pieces that have exceed sales projections for a few clients by as much as 300%.</li></li></ul><li>About Mark<br /><ul><li>In-demand User Experience Designer , Marketer & Information Architect, with over 15 years of experience.

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Polished and persuasive communicator with excellentpresentation, and interpersonal skills

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Proven ability to transform concepts into successful interactive reality.

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Combines creative, artistic talent with P&L mindset to deliver revenue-enhancing, market-oriented pieces that have exceed sales projections for a few clients by as much as 300%.</li></li></ul><li>EDUCATION <br />Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts<br />Paris, France<br />Diplome, Product Design, 1997<br />Middlebury College;<br />Middlebury, VT<br />Art History & Russian Language, 1983<br />

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Career + Experience Timeline<br />MH Creative <br />Principal <br />(UX, Visual Design, Product & Industrial Design)<br />Microsoft <br />Lead UX/ Product Designer<br />Drugstore.com<br />Site Director<br />1995<br />1995<br />1995<br />1995<br />1995<br />2000<br />2000<br />2000<br />2000<br />2000<br />2005<br />2005<br />2005<br />2005<br />2005<br />2010<br />2010<br />2010<br />2010<br />2010<br />Napster<br />Marketing Director<br />Hanna – Barbera <br />Manager, Classic Characters Marketing<br />28 Years Cumulative Experience<br />

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Skills<br /><ul><li>Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

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Strong skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Dreamweaver, ImageReady / Fireworks, Quark, Acrobat, Flash, Visio and HTML/XHTML. Working command of Silverlight, JavaScript, CSS / XSLT, DOM and ASP technologies. Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides.

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Comfortable working knowledge of French, German & Russian; Rudimentary knowledge of Mandarin Chinese (I teach beginning Mandarin to lower school age kids on Sundays during school year)

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Voting member of NATAS (Emmy), AMPAS (Oscar) and NARAS (Grammy) Academies; member of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists), Art Directors Club of New York and The Information Architecture Institute</li></ul>PHOTOGRAPH: MARK HGUHES<br />

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Mark Hughes Creative<br />

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Random House Germany<br />Defined new product design (UX) information architecture strategy for the world’s largest and most well known publishing company.<br />

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Neiman-Marcus.com<br />Product DesignerSite Redesign<br />Redesigned client’s Internet site that was directly responsible for over $1.7M in sales after first three months, surpassing previous quarter’s sales by 225%<br />

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iTunes 4.0<br />Retail Experience<br />Apple<br /><ul><li>Key architect and product design leader

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Lead initial architecture and design of a pluggable content-importation tool for music (samples, metadata and cover art), design of the commerce model, credit-card authorization and price modeling experiences.

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Lead design of the account UI components of 20+ and counting international stores, as well as complete UI and architecture of a gift certificate/allowance mechanism..</li></li></ul><li>Microsoft<br />

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Microsoft<br />

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Microsoft<br />Microsoft Corporation<br />Lead Product Designer, Redmond, WA, 2005 – 2009 (FTE)<br />Windows 7, Windows Vista, MSN Music, Windows Vista Help, Windows Help, Vista Fit and Finish, WEX & Microsoft Internal Sites, Windows Media, Windows Media Radio Tuner, <br />Producer, Music WindowsMedia.com, WMP 9, Redmond, WA, 2002 – 2003 (VENDOR)<br /><ul><li>Shipped 6 products since joining Windows in 2005!

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Managed the conceptualization, production and delivery of image branding and corporate identity; for several Windows Experience (WEX) teams including the Experience Design & Research site for Windows (http://xdr) as well as the ‘We do Windows” campaign.

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Managed Windows Media visual style, development and branding, as well as internal collateral, print collateral and ad campaigns.</li></li></ul><li>Microsoft<br />I’M A PC INTERNAL MS CAMPAIGN<br />Windows User Experience Design and Research team site (//xdr)<br />

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Microsoft<br />Windows Media Ad (Design, Concept & Copy) <br />MAIN CONTROL<br />WINDOWS <br />GUIDED HELP<br />

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Microsoft<br />We do Windows<br />UX campaign<br />Windows Media Radio Tuner<br />Windows Shell Branding<br />

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Drugstore.com<br />

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Drugstore.com<br />Online Pharmacy<br />Plans to grow into full patient care service scoped, not completed.<br />Drugstore.com<br />2004 – 2005 <br />Site Director<br /><ul><li>Redesigned the site look and feel in conjunction with a new brand campaign. The redesign also incorporated many technology updates and interface changes.

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Led team of 30 writers, designers and photo staff in supporting merchandising, marketing, and program-management team.

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Set priorities and streamlined processes in a competitive, resource-challenged environment. For example, revamped digital photography studio below budget, cutting costs and increasing image quality. </li></ul>Rebranding<br />Shown here: <br />Out of Home Advertising, <br />

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Napster<br />

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Napster<br />1999 – 2001 <br />Marketing Director, Client & Brand (yes, the kitty head logo)Product Designer, Client (PC & Mac)<br />Say what you will about how Napster facilitated copyright violation on a massive scale (it had 60 million users at its zenith), but piracy was around well before Napster came along and has continued to thrive without it.<br />Rather, Napster is of critical importance not only for inventing peer-to-peer technology, but also for forcing record labels to play ball and work with tech companies to make file-sharing practices in the digital music industry legal. <br />

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Hanna-Barbera<br />

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Hanna - Barbera Productions<br />1994 – 1996<br />Manager, Classic Characters<br />Played key role in managing growth of the H-B division from $30 - $60 million and earnings from $5 million to $12 million in television program sales.<br />Developed online presence for key Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network brands. Lead production of Corporate Identity, Character Reference Guides and style guides for Jonny Quest: The Movie, 35th Anniversary Flintstones redesign, Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast and the Boomerang Network. <br />Hired and worked with MIS Manager to develop and implement company-wide intranet, which only three months following launch, became primary Internet site www.cartoonnetwork.com. <br />

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Hanna Barbera<br />Flintstones 35th Anniversary <br />Style Guide<br />Art Director<br />HB Business Card (Back)<br />Hanna Barbera Prod.<br />Cartoon Network1994 – 1996<br />Manager, Classic Characters<br />Played key role in managing growth of the H-B division from $30 - $60 million and earnings from $5 million to $12 million in television program sales.<br />Developed online presence for key Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network brands. Lead production of Corporate Identity, Character Reference Guides and style guides for Jonny Quest: The Movie, 35th Anniversary Flintstones redesign, Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast and the Boomerang Network. <br />Hired and worked with MIS Manager to develop and implement company-wide intranet, which only three months following launch, became primary Internet site www.cartoonnetwork.com. <br />

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Pro Bono / Non – Profit Work<br />

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Boy Scouts of America<br />BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA<br />CUB SCOUTS OF AMERICA<br />2009 <br />NATIONAL PINEWOOD DERBY <br />POSTER<br />Concept<br />Art DirectionCreative Direction <br />

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia<br />THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION<br />Website Concept, Creative Direction & Information Architecture<br />Led team of 6 <br />

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia<br />THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA <br />KIDS HEALTH GALAXY<br />http://www.chop.edu/kidshealthgalaxy/index.html<br />Branding & Website Concept, Creative Direction & Information Architecture<br />Developed flow and architecture. Prepared and created storyboards. Supervised team of Flash animators. Client wanted a Jetson’s type feel (which I say we delivered)<br />Besides,, I had some experience in that area…<br />Led team of 4 <br />

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Thank you!<br />