Mike Tam: Profile

Mike Tam is a design consultant who works with organizations to develop brands, visual communications and user interfaces. Along with his understanding of traditional design principles and his extensive experience in a broad range of interactive technologies that range from content rich websites to consumer mobile devices, he focuses on creating meaningful experiences for users and to help them understand complex systems and information.

SInce 1996 he has designed many successful projects for some of the world's leading companies and cultural institutions that include AOL, Design Management Institute, HP, IBM, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Plantronics, Sony, Symantec and Yahoo. The results of these projects have added great value to the organizations and their ability to deliver a better expereince for the people who use their products.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Mike was a User Interface Designer at IBM-Rational, and a Senior Visual Interface designer at AlbenFaris, one of the pioneering design firms in User Experience Design.

He holds a BS in graphic design with honors from San Jose State University, and has taught a BFA graphic design course in user experience design at SJSU.

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Awards, Publications, and Presentations
My work has been written about, talked about or appeared
in the following:

. Design Management Journal
. DIS2000
. Dreamweaver 3 for Dummies
. How Design Magazine
. I.D. Magazine
. Interactions
. Loop (AIGA)
. Make IT Easy 2003
. Monthly Design (Korea)
. San Jose State University, 2004

. VanUE (Vancouver, BC.) 2006
. Wall Street Journal
. Webby Award, 2000 (Monterey Bay Aquarium)
. webtechniques
. XHTML by Example