Hi, I'm Eric Wright. I'm a creative director and product designer with over a decade of experience.

Experience & Portfolio

For the past 12 years I have designed applications for companies in finance, media, logistics, construction, film, and other industries.

Currently I am the Creative Director for an industry-leading company in the finance industry, where I guide teams in Technology, Product, and Marketing.

My work experience is detailed below, but if you're a traditionalist you can download a PDF version of my resume.

My extended contact info is at the bottom, or you can just email me at ericwright@fastmail.fm.

Creative Director

I am currently resposible for the design and user experience of all customer touchpoints, including our desktop applications, web applications, and marketing collateral.

Current priorities include the flagship trader application, the corporate website, and the web platform for a new business.

whereLiquidnet
whenApr 2012 to Present
whatCreative Direction, Product Strategy, Design Leadership

Product Manager

I led a team of designers and business analysts in the company's most aggressive development team. We built powerful apps for Liquidnet's new Capital Markets business — initially a desktop application, then a fully-featured web app, and finally a web platform of multiple apps.

My team was responsible for product strategy and design. I led the team to create an excellent user experience, and worked with development, sales, support, and deployment to ensure everything was successfully delivered to customers.

Today InfraRed serves over 500 of the largest public companies in the US, and is distributed through a partnership with the New York Stock Exchange.

whereLiquidnet
whenJan 2009 to Apr 2012
whatProduct Strategy, UX Design, Visual Design

Product Designer

After dozens of field interviews with Portfolio Managers in New York, Boston, Houston, and San Francisco, I advised Liquidnet's CEO and Senior Management to create a community of public companies, by providing a free application showing Liquidnet's unique overview of the instutitional investor sentiment.

To build this community I designed InfraRed, originally a desktop application that later grew into a web application (see above). I also led the development team that built and delivered the first version of the app.

Product Manager and UI Designer

At Bitscribe I led the UI design and development for over $1M in custom enterprise software. We delivered web products with complex business logic to clients in entertainment, media, manufacturing, logistics, construction, and other industries.

I worked with Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry, and James Lindenbaum, who later founded Heroku.

where Bitscribe
whenMar 2006 to Aug 2007
whatProduct Design, Project Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design and Branding, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Ruby on Rails

Interface Designer and Front End Developer

As part of Oversee's Consumer Products department, I wrote front end code for a variety of internal web products, including shameless knock-offs of Blogger, Flickr, and MySpace.

I introduced the company to semantic markup and web standards. I also created, organized, and led a cross-division Front-End Developers group.

whereOversee.net
whenApr 2005 to Mar 2006
whatUI design, visual design, front end development, web standards, HTML/CSS/Javascript

Graphic Designer and Web Developer

Working for the Director of Marketing, I designed all marketing materials, collateral, advertising, and more. I redesigned the entire correspondence system, including business cards, letterhead, envelopes, and contact cards. I photographed company headshots.

The Director of Marketing was incredibly creative and willing to experiment. I learned a lot about how to reach out to customers in interesting ways. For example, after the 2003 New York Blackout, we sent out MagLite Solitaire flashlights to our customers with the story of how one of Griswold's employees led a subway car full of people out of a tunnel under the East River with the flashlight on her keychain.

whereThe Griswold Company
whenMay 2003 to Jul 2004
whatGraphic Design, Web Design, Collateral, Advertising, Branding, Web Development, Photography

Freelance Design and Development

I have provided design and development on a freelance basis for over 10 years. For most projects I'm responsible for the entire project — the scope of work, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, all development, and deployment.

whenNov 2000 to Present
whatWeb Design, Web Development, Branding, Information Architecture, Collateral Design, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, Ruby on Rails

Skills

Strategy

I love to discuss product strategy, since design can only be as effective as the strategy underneath it.

As a result of my work in the Finance industry, I have domain knowledge of modern financial market structure and institutional investing.

As a graduate (with honors) from NYU's Tisch film school, I know how write and direct movies. Currently I'm working on a series of short films called The Impostor.

Design

My strongest skills are in design, both interaction and visual design. I have a lot of experience doing ethnographic field research and testing the results with prototypes.

While I think there's a place for wireframes, the design work isn't done until you have pixel-perfect mockups.

Currently I provide company-wide creative direction, enforcing quality and facilitating integration among Product, Marketing, and Technology.

Development

I know web development. I am buzzword-compatible with HTML5 (I like featherweight templates like Slim and Jade), CSS (ideally with something like Sass/SCSS, Less, or Stylus) and Javascript (including Jquery and Coffeescript, which I'm a huge fan of).

My go-to prototyping language is Ruby, although I find myself using Sinatra more often than Rails. Finally, to add a little nerd-cred I'll mention that vim is my everyday text editor, and I find it hard to use anything else.

Contact

Social Media

My LinkedIn profile is a lightweight summary of my work experience .

I'm on twitter as @ericwright.

I am not on Facebook.

Sicily!