Personal
- Full Name
- eric christian brown
- About Me
With over 15 years of professional experience, Eric has been designing digital media since the near advent of the commercial graphical user interface, and the infancy of the World Wide Web.
As an undergraduate at Pratt Institute, Eric’s interest in computer graphics and media was awakened, and he was early to adopt the then still-new Macintosh computer as a design tool, exploring and experimenting with the myriad of design possibilities its applications were just beginning to enable. In the early 1990’s, Eric continued to pursue his interest in technology and media through graduate studies at New York University. At the same time he was one of the founders and principal designers of the multi-disciplinary design group, eng!ne/g-whizz, incorporated, whose guiding principle was to create leading-edge designs more economically through the manipulation of those digital design tools that were just then becoming commonplace.
For most of the decade, as the group’s principle designer, Eric worked with many of New York’s most established media companies, as well as with many of those that would contribute to creating the entirely new industry that would become known as Silicon Alley. Through the convergence that the technology fostered at the time, Eric created numerous design projects for print, publishing, advertising, broadcast and major motion pictures.
Having discovered it as a student at NYU, Eric became involved with and started designing for Echo, the acclaimed and innovative New York internet digital community, through which he was exposed to the newly emerging visual content platform of the World Wide Web, and he began designing web content as early as 1994. Eric created some of his earliest web and web advertising projects for clients as illustrious as IBM, Xerox, Kodak, Conde Nast, Ziff-Davis, American Express and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Also in 1994, Helix Software, a maker of award-winning utility applications for Windows, joined eng!ne’s roster of clients, and Eric began creating designs for the user interfaces of their products, and continued to do so for the next four years. When Helix Software was acquired by Network Associates in 1998 and was merged into the McAfee Consumer Products Division, Helix’s founder Mike Spilo tapped Eric to become the division’s Senior Designer in charge of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) designs. Eric remained at McAfee for nearly five years, rising to the position of Creative Content Manager, and overseeing the GUI designs for numerous versions of their full range of award-winning consumer products, including McAfee VirusScan, McAfee Office, McAfee Utilities, McAfee Internet Security and others. He coordinated localization with overseas staff to create versions in the major foreign languages sold around the world, managed the technical writing and editing staff in the creation and maintenance of the manuals, help files and all the text content of the user interface. He was also a member of the team responsible for the initial launch of mcafee.com, the company’s internet portal and application service provider.
Since 2003, after leaving McAfee, Eric returned to working independently as an interactive and user interface designer and consultant, with a focus once again upon embracing and exploiting the advanced capabilities of the latest generation of digital design tools and distribution platforms.
Business
- Organization Website
- http://www.eyeui.com
- Organization
- eyeui
- Organization Profile
The mission of eyeui is the relentless pursuit of original and functional user interface design. Around here, we think technology is cool, and when we say that, our tone is enthusiastic, not excited, while remaining just a touch disaffected, to, you know, sound cool. Technology does not, however, always look cool, nor is it always particularly user friendly. We believe the opportunity to correct both problems is through well-thought-out, well-designed user interfaces, whether they be for a website, a web application, a software application, or any other form of interactive implementation. Frankly, we would like to see everything done with more user-friendly, visually appealing interfaces, but our focus is upon things you view on, and use via, display screens. We also believe that doing it right the first time is the most cost-effective approach.
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- 17 years 2 days