I design to improve people’s lives.

I’m a humanist, designer, and developer who is addicted to creation.

I’ve worked in web development since I was a wee little sixth-grader, and my background means that I’m a designer who can develop too, though I make a conscious effort not to allow my knowledge of implementation to affect what I design.

My goal is to design interactions and products that help improve the world, tiny bit by tiny bit. I aim to provide a framework for a wonderful experience, supported by a possibly invisible and unthanked design. I share the opinion 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.

I love this craft (and I certainly consider it a craft): its right-brain/left-brain mixture, its softly spoken manifesto of morality, and its constant evolution. And I hope to apply my passion to make the world even just a little bit better.

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 Meebo. And you can follow me on Twitter, too — even if you are a spammer.