James Kalbach
Bellealliancstr. 34
20259 Hamburg, Germany
james DOT kalbach AT gmail DOT com
View Resume [pdf] or click on CV to the right
I’m a Principal User Experience Consultant at USEEDS°, a Berlin-based design and innovation consultancy for businesses with a high online profile. Previously I was a User Experience Consultant with LexisNexis, a leading provider of legal and news information, where I develop interfaces for web-based search applications. Prior to that I served as head of information architecture with Razorfish, Germany. I hold a degree in library and information science from Rutgers University, as well as a Master’s degree in music theory and composition.
For the past seven years, I’ve been on the organizing committee for the European Information Architecture conferences (www.euroia.org). Previously I was an assistant editor with Boxes and Arrows for a few years, a leading online journal for user experience information (www.boxesandarrows.com). I also served on the advisory board of the Information Architecture Institute in 2007 and 2005.
Music is a main creative outlet outside of work. I play bass in a local jazz combo in Hamburg Germany, where I live with my wife, Nathalie, and our cat, Niles. See the website for Helmut and the Lamp Shades.
I’m also a craft beer aficionado and regularly contribute ratings and stories to RateBeer.com, a leading online beer community, under the user name pivo.
In 2007 I published my first full-length book, Designing Web Navigation (O’Reilly, 2007). See the link on the right for more information about the book.
Here are some links to more information about me:
- My profile page on LinkedIn.com
- a list of my music compositions
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