Madison Rails
Ryan Smith (Version #11)

Bio

Ryan R Smith is a web designer with an eye on web standards, the user experience, clean code, and a distrust of people wearing glitter. OS X is his primary mode of transport but is forced into the daily grind using WinXP. He’s also interested in everything open-source, geocaching, and forward-compatible, non-profit web sites.

He also has a side project designing a self-sufficient, streaming video server from a broadband-enabled, satellite-linked sailboat. More info about this to follow shortly.

His current projects include Usability consulting for American Family Insurance, the BarCamp Scheduler app together with others in this group, and various freelance web design projects.

Personal/Professional Site

• Ratio Switch

Notable Links

• Dan Cederholm of Simple Bits
• Web Typography
• Style Gala
• Dan Benjamin of Hive Logic
• Daring Fireball
• Product Website Done Right, Could Veil

Contributions to this Site

• February Crazy Talks on the topic of Smart CSS for data tables
• RoR Installation Cheat Sheet
• Command Line Cheat Sheet

Recent Web Work

• UI Design on RoR-enabled schedule app for Barcamp
• LeMond Bikes (A product web site for crazy-dedicated cyclists)
• Trek Travel (A vacation information site done for those crazy-dedicated cyclists—a collaboration with K. Soliva and J. Hoover)
• Radlund Photography (A basic photo-display site for a local photography studio)
• Wisconsin UPA (The local Usability Professionals Association chapter … pro bono work in progress)

Contact Info

• ratioswitch ‘AT’ gmail ‘DOT’ com
• ratioswitch (iChat via AIM)
• ryan_r_smith (Skype)

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