Career interests ...

• Designing and building great software that makes a difference in people's lives by making computer and technology-based products more enabling, easier to use, more transparent, and more powerful.
• Making technology in general more accessible.
• Building better user interfaces that act like people expect them to.
• I am available for consulting. If you have a product whose user interface is in need of help, I can make a big difference in a surprisingly short time. My consulting also includes architecture, algorithms, and development for systems of all sizes, from small to very large-scale.
• See my résumé here.

• Puzzles and puzzle construction (puzzles published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and GAMES magazine, among other places). I also create high-quality custom crosswords for individuals or companies. Contact me if you're interested.
• Ambigrams
• Photography (I'm also a big fan of Ansel Adams)
• Making pizzas (I'm writing a cookbook)
• Arts Commissioner for the City of Redmond, Washington (I'm Chair for 2005)

Other interests ...

• Shakespeare
• Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright in particular).
• Some lamps I designed and built.

My World Trade Center Memorial Proposal

• The proposal I submitted to the design competition [PDF]
  (the most interesting portions are the upper right and the lower left)
• My Ten-Year Memorial proposal
• Why it's so hard to know what's right
• An entrant's perspective on the competition
• Comments on the winning designs

Other links

• www.KristaLeeJohnson.com - A friend of mine from Minnesota, who is a wonderful oil painter (I did her website)
• www.TheBookOfLore.com - My sister-in-law, a simple web site for the novel she's working on (a much simpler site I did)
• www.NaturalInterface.org - How to build natural user interfaces (coming soon)

Email: royleban AT groupthink DOT com

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