Contact & Elsewhere
Email me at tpoor@cmu.edu. Unless you’re a spammer. In that case, shoo.
I can also be found on LinkedIn and the HCII. And you can follow me on Twitter, too – even if you are a spammer.
I want to improve the world.
I study human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon,
and am currently looking for a interaction design internship.
My Background
I’m a humanist, designer, and developer (in that order) who is addicted to creation.
I’ve worked in web development since I was a wee little sixth-grader, so my biggest influences include Jakob Nielsen and Steve Krug. My background also means that I’m a designer who can develop too, though I make a conscious effort not to allow my knowledge of implementation affect what I design.
I love sunshine and billiards, and probably need a twelve-step program for bacon.
My Design Philosophy
My goal is to design interactions and products that help improve the world. I design not with a particular product in mind, but with the end goal of providing a framework for a wonderful experience, supported by an invisible and unthanked design. Bonus points if, in doing so, I manage to help solve a problem plaguing society or create something so influential that it enacts cultural change.
It’s no secret that empathy is crucial to achieving this. As Richard Saul Wurman puts it, “the key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand.” This is awfully convenient, because it’s why I design in the first place: to understand and improve people’s lives.
…and they actually pay me. It’s like winning the lottery.