Aarron Walter Email & Phone Number

Athens, GA, US

Building the Design Better Podcast, a show about the intersection of design, technology, and the creative process.

I co-host Reconsidering, a podcast that explores how to live a more satisfying life by getting fresh perspective on your career, relationships, and the values that guide you through inevitable changes. In each episode my co-hosts Bob Baxley, Meredith Black, and I talk with experts about living a life of balance filled with meaning..

I've coached, advised, and presented to a number companies and organizations on the topics of design, product, psychology, and team strategy. Here are a few of the organizations I've helped:Technology and Software* Intuit* Peloton* Typeform* WW* Zendesk* Linked In* IBM* Atlassian* VMWare* AT&TGovernment and NGO* The White House Innovation Fellows* The US.

Investing time and energy in my two sons who are at critical stages of development. We're playing chess, guitar, violin, hiking, watching movies, baking cookies, and having great conversations.

New York, New York, US

I joined Resolve to Save Lives, a non-profit founded by Dr Tom Frieden, President Obama’s CDC Director, to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. I led a small, cross-disciplinary team of product managers, designers, product operations experts, and solutions architects who have built a variety of tools designed to help public health jurisdictions speed up.

New York, New York, US

Using design and technology to create contact tracing software to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the US.

Geneva 27, GE, CH

Served on a global working group to establish specifications for digital vaccination certificate standards that provide proof of immunization, program monitoring, and promoting safe international travel.

New York, NY, US

As the VP of Design Education and later VP of Content at InVision, I built a team that produced DesignBetter.com, a publication featuring books, podcasts, research, and interviews that help design teams adopt best practices. We produced 10 books that have been downloaded more than 400,000 times and influenced $3 million in ARR. We created a Webby nominated.

Atlanta, GA, US

I built a team of interdisciplinary thinkers to research, conceptualize, and prototype new features and products.

Atlanta, GA, US

I built a team of designers, developers, and researchers to create new products. We conducted product and market research then built a prototype and a functioning product from our findings.

Atlanta, GA, US

I built the UX team at MailChimp, which was comprised of three groups: Research, Design, and Front-End Development. I managed the team through many product releases and major redesigns. I established the customer research practice at MailChimp, which constantly informed the strategic growth of the product as it grew from a few thousand customers to.

I was a core member of The Web Standards Project, and the former lead of the WaSP InterACT curriculum–an open curriculum that seeks to improve the quality of web education in high schools and colleges. This curriculum was designed and authored by top industry experts and veteran educators, and is being used by schools around the world.

Wakefield, MA, US

Served as a co-founding member of the Open Web Education Alliance, an incubator working groupwithin the W3C established to define global standards for web technology education.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

I taught a wide range of design and technology courses from introductory to advanced levels. Courses included Perceptual Interfacing, Interface Design, Dynamic Web Applications, History of Communication Media, and foundation web design courses.In 2004 I lead a 2 week study abroad program to Berlin, Helsinki, and Stockholm that introduced students to.

For 8 years I ran a one person design consultancy. As the sole proprietor I handled all planning, designing, and development of web projects.

- Developed Computer-Based Training CD-ROMs (built with Director, and Flash) - Developed dynamic, standards-compliant websites- Project planning consultation

Athens, GA, US

Developed and taught a course for the Graphic Design department covering core web design concepts.

Taught interactive design course to graduate studio artists exploring digital media in the traditional arts.

Designed and developed websites and interactive CD-ROMs for clients including Barnes and Noble, David Bowie, and Hewlett Packard.

Mfa, Painting

Bfa, Painting