Chris Blanz Email & Phone Number

Bowling Green, Ky, Us

As a UX/UI & Product Designer and Webflow Developer, I help business leaders create user-friendly web experiences that guide, educate, and inspire. I look at the user experience (UX) as the entire user journey: from the first time someone discovers a brand to how they engage with the product, customer support, and how to keep them coming back. I see user interface (UI) as more than colors, typefaces, and buttons. Sometimes, it's the only real connection people have with a company. So, while websites and products need to attract and introduce new users, it is just as important that they retain regular visitors. Webflow has become my go-to platform for website development. As a designer, it gives me the freedom and flexibility to design and build powerful, pixel-perfect, responsive websites without needing a big team of developers. Dynamic sites with thousands of virtual pages served from database-driven content. Bonus... they make it easy to allow clients to maintain that content without me having to make changes. (Of course, when coding an actual product, I leave that to the pros.)Portfolio of work: www.chrisblanz.com

The project description was far more than UI. It included elements of Creative Direction, UX/UI Strategy, Product Design, Marketing Coordination, and Copywriting. At a few points, I was probably considered the defacto head of the mail room, with all of the trade show prep and shipping I was coordinating. I refined the company’s brand and the existing SaaS product identities as a one-person department. I also wrote new copy for all public-facing products and services and promotions for the web, print, and sales presentations. Product User Experience Enhancements—Working with internal developers, I designed a multiphased approach for enhancing the platform UX with small but tactical improvements to the user experience.

Nashville, Tn, Us

As co-founder, my primary focus was UX/UI Product Design for a product that helped users securely manage and remotely control Bluetooth, NFC, and QR touchpoints. These features became the base of our patents (us 9,629,064, us 10,104,515, us 10,375,060, and multiple others pending). Highlight: Hardware Product Design - Google featured my Bluetooth beacon hardware designs in several Physical Web promos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yaLPRgtlR0

After selling my agency (cabedge), I took this deep dive into product design and development, working closely with company leaders to discover product enhancement opportunities, then develop user-centric product development and customer engagement strategies. (Although the MōBLS name started as a mobile-tech concept, the meaning became more of a metaphor representing agility.)

I founded and served as CEO and Creative Director for a team of talented designers, writers, developers, and web strategists. Clients included national brands like Band-Aid, Cracker Barrel, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Rockwell Tools, The Washington Post, LEGO, National Geographic, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and others.Cabedge was featured twice in the Music City Future 50 Awards and named one of Nashville Business Journal's Best in Business for two consecutive years. One of the most fulfilling awards had to be when cabedge was honored as one of 2011's Best Places to Work from the Nashville Business Journal. We were recognized with 60+ American Advertising Federation awards (including a National Judge’s Choice Award in 2012), more than 50 American Graphic Design awards, 5 AIGA CASE Awards (including 2 “Best Of…” awards), and a Telly.

I recruited and managed a team of top-tier designers. Together, we designed attractive and informative web experiences in the days when Flash ruled the web.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

After my company, The Creative Syndicate, merged with The Edge, I recruited and directed a brilliant team of designers. Together, we created some of the first websites for brands like Cracker Barrel, BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.), and the State of Tennessee.As our flagship product grew and became more technology-focused, I chose to leave and explore more design-related projects while retaining my shares of ownership in the company. In 2004, we sold this company to a New York investment firm.

As one of three founding partners, my specialty was print design, but I quickly learned the tech driving the early web. Our major accomplishment was being awarded the State of Tennessee’s first Internet design/development contract, which led to our merger with a team of rocket scientists from Arnold Air Force Base in Tullahoma, TN to form EdgeNet Media.