I'm Dana.

I work at the convergence of interaction, service, and industrial design. I've designed for Cooper, in San Francisco where I currently live, and XPLANE in Portland, Oregon.

I see design through user-centered glasses. I ask a lot of questions. I think analysis and intuition are equally good reasons to make a decision. I get to the point. I design because it's fun, and because it matters. And I still believe that design can and will enable us to lead better lives.

dana [at] danasmithdesigns [dot] com

Resume (88k .pdf)

Portfolio - Xplane & Academic (1.4mb .pdf)

Research Sample - 2006 (3mb .pdf)

Thoughts on interaction design,
collaborative dynamics, and culture.

A podcast on IT Conversations
of a visualization session that Dave Gray
and I conducted at Meshforum 2006.

Tech Crunch asked me about visualization,
and I attempted to read Korean.

My flickr stream.

Documentation of the Lia project
design process.

A record of my academic
Information Architecture work.