Alex is a user experience design, usability, and information architecture professional with over 10 years of experience. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, as well as start-ups, helping them improve their business by improving the usability and user experience of their web sites and applications.

His interests include online markets (including prediction markets, financial markets, healthcare markets, and so on), information dashboards, trading interfaces, information design, and economics.

He also manages UsableMarkets, his consultancy and blog.

Contact 
email (remove the obvious "f00 spam" filter):
alex at usablemarketsf00spam dot com / alex at alexkirtlandf00spam dot com

phone: +1 917 623 9131 (skype: akirtland)

Networking and Online Profiles
Find Alex on: Linked In, Boxes and Arrows, Slide Share, and UX Zeitgeist

Articles and Presentations
On A Scale of 1 to 5: Understanding Risk Improves Rating and Reputation Systems (article)

Why Markets Love the Internet (Or, The 1 Hour MBA for User Experience Designers and Other Layabouts) (presentation)

An Introduction to Prediction Markets (presentation)

Communicating Complex Ideas: How Public Prediction Markets Simplify Concepts about Buying and Selling Events and Ideas (article)

Ads Are Here To Stay: Planning For Ad Placement (article)

Executive Dashboards (article)

Maginot Lines of code: infowar, infocrime, and data defense (article)

Resume
in pdf format
please inquire to see a portfolio of Alex's work

Some companies he's worked with:

Financial Morgan Stanley - Application design - User research - Usability testing InTrade - Design strategy - Stakeholder interviews - User testing Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Intranet redesign Western Union - Extranet design Peak6 - Envision new trading platform for retail clients Reuters - Envision new B2B2C product for financial advisors Media & Communications Broadway.com - Usability testing Blockbuster - UX Lead for Silverlight, movie exploration application Nokia - Usability testing for OVI application Rodale - MensHealth.com site redesign - Search design - Recipe finder

Non-profit DonorsChoose.org - Usability testing, training Manufacturing Moto Research (startup) - Application design - User research - Usability testing Kodak - Site redesign for Kodak Dental - Metadata strategy for Kodak Medical Ford - Redesign of Ford.com Philip Morris USA - Intranet redesign - Experience lead for all Avenue A - Razorfish Philip Morris PM USA projects Avaya - Avaya.com site redesign - Executive dashboard - Usability testing - Metadata strategy Pharma Merck - Application design Pfizer - Intranets - Application design Travel ResortQuest - Redesign of resortquest.com

What He's Read ... Would Like To Read
Alex's Library at Google Books

His Current, Favorite Information Graphic

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