DesignMap Inc.

Gregory Baker comes to DesignMap from the Dubberly Design Office where he was the senior interaction designer for six years. There he learned Hugh Dubberly's industry-leading methodology for concept modeling and application mapping. His work focused on the health care industry, designing insurance and community web applications, as well as electronic order entry and patient management desktop applications. His other clients there included Palm, Verisign, Sun Microsystems, Nikon, and Kodak. Gregory began his career at TS Design in Boston (now part of RazorFish). There he worked on interface and strategy solutions for fortune 500 companies like the 3M Company and Fleet Bank. He left TS Design to join America Online's west-coast design staff. There he was responsible for the design of community and communications services and applications for deployment on AOL's major brands. Gregory has BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design.

Gary Chai began his career at Netscape Communications and was responsible for the look and feel of Netscape's web portal. He was also responsible for providing design direction to the designers on the team. Gary was part of the team that designed the Netscape 6 browser. After 3 years, he left Netscape to be the first interaction designer at Loudcloud, a software infrastructure and internet services company, where he was responsible for transforming the visual image of Loudcloud and for designing myLoudcloud, the customer-facing portal. He has worked as a design consultant for AOL Time Warner, Yahoo! and the Dubberly Design Office. Gary has BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design. Most recently, Gary designed the visual look for Cisco.com.

Nathan Kendrick trained with Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk, two leaders of the information architecture discipline. He has 8 years of web-based application design experience, starting at Aaron Marcus and Associates. He was the design lead during the time when user interaction was being standardized across AOL's web applications. He was the lead designer for web-services at the Linux startup Eazel, founded by former Apple engineers responsible for the original Macintosh user interface. He consulted at Loudcloud, and created the interaction design standards for myLoudcloud, the industry leading web-based monitoring and code change management system. Nathan has BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design. Most recently, he helped research, create, and institute a customer experience design methodology at Wells Fargo Bank, and designed the online service request tool for Cisco.com.

Lori Neumann has been leading web design projects while working at IBM since IBM's first web site launched in May of 1994. She held several management positions in user interface design, software development and visual design and worked with IBM design consultants Paul Rand, Norm Cox and Edward Tufte. She finished her career at IBM in New York as the user interface program manager, where she was responsible for the look and feel for IBM's first web site. Since moving back to California, she has held director-level design positions for Trimble Navigation, Netscape Communications, Loudcloud and other startups, and most recently is a design management consultant and account executive for technology companies including Cisco.

We also have a network of experienced freelancers, expanding our team to fit any size project.