Joel Magalnick Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

North Then West is a boutique consulting agency that helps its clients design a value proposition for their business that puts their customers at the center of everything do. As founder and lead design consultant, I work with my clients to understand their current struggles so we can include their entire team to redesign their customer experience.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

I teach the fundamentals and principles of digital experience design to several student cohorts as a part of their design education, including dives into accessibility and inclusion.

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Our small but mighty team works with enterprise technology clients to tell their stories at a human scale. Projects include podcasts and infographics for industry verticals that focus on how AI and digital transformation are promoting culture change and competitive advantage. Responsible AI, diversity & inclusion, and curiosity have been common threads throughout each engagement.

Wenatchee, Wa

I'm thrilled to be able to facilitate and teach a diverse group of students as they learn about the landscape of digital communications. We cover user experience, content strategy, UX writing, the business and moral applications of social media, public relations, ethics and good digital citizenship, and much, much more. My hope and intent is that these students end the quarter with the motivation and tools to find jobs in whatever field they choose—and a portfolio project that proves it!

Greater Seattle Area & Greater Edmonton Area

I'm a digital storyteller who brings my clients joy through a customer-first combination of subject expertise, collaboration, and mentoring.• I help my clients understand where their projects sit in the marketing funnel to establish the customer experience and content strategy that enables them to reach their goals.• I infuse a culture of diversity and inclusion into my projects, such as hiring recommendations and accessibility considerations, as well as promoting use of responsible AI when it's applicable• I use a design-thinking methodology that I use in microcopy, UX writing, and product design as well as helping my clients to see their challenges from different angles and solve their problems empathetically.• I bring a forward-thinking mindset to projects that ask my clients to think about ways to integrate advanced technologies into their workflows.• I have a background as a journalist that has trained me to ask tough questions, but also guide my clients on a journey that helps them understand difficult concepts.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

As a key member of the founding team of this startup, I am developing the product experience and marketing strategy for the mobile platform that builds communities of music lovers, performers and hosts based around live music 24/7. My goals are to build an experience that brings joy to everyone using our platform, on both sides of every show.

Seattle, Washington, United States

I support multiple clients through content marketing, user experience, UX writing, and creative project management. The holistic marketing approach we take has helped our clients grow their businesses while using the full power of online services to reach clients wherever they are.

Greater Seattle Area

As SCC's lead content and customer experience resource, I work with my team to develop expertise in subject matter (mainly encompassing how AI and emerging technologies impact business and humanity), prioritize and communicate top impact areas, establish narrative for content and user interactions, then present high-ROI deliverables.Most exciting: Visit your favorite podcasting platform to check out Gov Pod, the series I scripted about governments and how they are using AI and other intelligent technologies, and NextGen Health, which covers AI and the bold new direction healthcare is going. I interview subject-matter experts worldwide, then script entire seasons based on those conversations and further research Really fascinating stuff—and a great learning experience about how the technology helps us!Also awesome: I have coached more than 40 executives on scripts and delivery to prep them before they got in front of a camera to pitch their professional stories.

Greater Seattle Area

With my co-founder Alex Stolyarik, we are the founders of RealityNext, a lab for developing fun and engaging project-based curricula for teens in Virtual Reality. We created RealityNext because of our shared passion for storytelling and education. The product we designed fulfills our vision: to blend education with maker spaces, storytelling, and theater—inside the magic of VR—in a way that allows students to advance together by researching, solving and overcoming group challenges.Work included iterative methodology development, user experience design, study and assessment of intellectual property needs and creation of initial patent-filing documentation, content development, and working with students to test assumptions on a Minimum Viable Product.

Seattle

Also June-July 2016, Oct.-Nov. 2016, March-April 2017As a contract UX architect, I worked with client companies to refine user flows and tell their online stories through user interaction design, information architecture and wireframing.Clients include T-Mobile, Eddie Bauer and EvivaMD.com

Greater Seattle Area

• As the leader of this community-based media company, I published a newspaper in print and online that informed, challenged, educated and excited thousands of readers, week in and week out. • I created enjoyable, informative, inclusive, hard-hitting journalistic experiences that made readers stop and think.• I oversaw the editorial direction for delivery across multiple platforms and channels.• I designed and managed multiple marketing and editorial products to increase revenue and readership.• I led my staff through good times and bad, including the shutdown of the business, but gave people who worked for and with me the freedom to follow up on ideas to grow the company.• I experimented with different content structures to tell the organization’s stories in different ways — think e-books or interactive storytelling sites.• I designed multiple digital products such as print magazines, mobile-friendly design, and daily email newsletters that streamlined internal processes, delighted external users, and increased sales.• I implemented a social media strategy from zero that engaged and conversed with thousands of readers each week.

Greater Seattle Area

I designed an innovative digital product that allowed media companies to publish their content to a white-label iOS app, which gave them a presence on the just-launched iPad and advanced their digital strategies.• I conducted user research and usability studies to validate product need and reader experience.• I designed the iOS-based systems architecture and user interfaces.• Collaborated with overseas development team to build prototype and 1.0 minimum viable product.

Master Of Communications In Digital Media, Communication Leadership Program

I focused on user experience and integrated digital marketing. I used my education as an opportunity to experiment with new ways digital.

Certificate, Writing And Commercial Fiction

Bs, Journalism

Masterclass—Less Machine, More Learning: What You Need To Know Now About Ai

This one-day masterclass taught us about artificial intelligence and the role of communication leaders. Attendees learned how to make.