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 design to improve people’s lives.
I study human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon,
and am currently seeking an interaction design position.
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, 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.
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, tiny bit by tiny bit. My end goal is to provide 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.
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’d love to work at a place where I can learn from the best and apply my passion to make the world even a tiny bit better.