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About me

Hi, I’m Rodrigo Thauby, a Web Designer and Developer living in the beautiful Bay Area of San Francisco. I like to design beautiful user interfaces and craft engaging user experiences.

I’d like to work with you.

Short Bio

I created my first website in 1997 when I was 14 and have been doing it ever since.

Tip: don’t forget the password you used for your site when you were fourteen, you simply cannot erase that stuff (no matter how hard you try).

I continued to explore the possibilities of web design while I was in High School, but it was only around 2002 that I started doing some real work for small corporate entities and my University.

I graduated in 2005 with a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from Adolfo Ibañez University, in Chile; and shortly after that I moved to United States, where I have been working as a UI Designer & Developer to date.

I have continued accepting freelance work, while also under the employ of Forio Business Simulations.

I am currently pursuing an MS in Internet Engineering at the University of San Francisco and enjoying every minute.

I built and shipped my first iPad app last year.

Where I want to go

I enjoy designing and building interfaces for non-Interwebs people; that will always be a big part of what I do. However, I am also very interested in the development of mobile applications, product design, marketing, etc — ideally getting involved in as many facets of software development as I possibly can.

What I know about the web

Though I don’t have any deals to write books, I do read a lot of them.

I get the bulk of my learning from people like Andy Clarke, Jefferey Zeldman, Shaun Inman and Eric Meyer, among others. I have attended conferences where some of these people have talked.

I spend the majority of my time writing javascript and obsessing about my css sheets. I enjoy programming and building tools on Ruby and Python, my languages of choice.

Photo by Kerri Thauby

Some of my Inspiration

I find it’s rather hard not to get influenced by other artists, or other artforms for that matter. In that sense, I find a great deal of inspiration from a bunch of places, which can be tough to summarize. Music, movies, software, other designers, things I see, pictures... you name it.
Here are a few that I can think of:

Stan Lee

Genius

That’s right, true believer! Stan “The Man” is one of my real-life heroes, and truly an inspiration and encouragement to use our imagination.
Jeffrey Zeldman

Web Designer

Wether you’ll admit it or not, the man is the Internet. From A List Apart to the Web Standards Project. I’d move back to PA for this guy!
Andy Clarke

Web Designer

Andy’s book “Transcending CSS” was a real eye opener for me, it taught me quite a few things. I had the pleasure of meeting Andy at FOWD back in 2006 (I think?).
Tool

Band

These guys are, without a doubt, my favorite band. I couldn’t even think of spending all those countless hours building sites without rocking to their songs.