Nathan Curtis is a founder and principal at EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Nathan has been practicing varied disciplines within user experience design since 1998, and areas of interest include information architecture, interaction design, usability research, and front-end development. Through EightShapes, Nathan has helped improve the user experience for companies including Discovery, Inphonic, Revolution Health, Comcast, National Geographic, Sprint Nextel, and Sun Microsystems.

Prior to founding EightShapes, Nathan led efforts at Sprint Nextel, Inc for projects that include ecommerce shopping and checkout, content management and programming, account management and bill pay, and web portals for wireless device data synchronization. During the 2005 merger process between Sprint and Nextel, Nathan served as the user experience lead on the large, diverse creative team that consolidated and rebranded the online presence of sprint.com, nextel.com, sprintpcs.com, and approximately 200 related online products and applications.

Before Sprint Nextel, Nathan was a principal owner at BIG fish in Washington DC from 2000-2003. He lead user experience projects for federal and corporate clients via services that included information architecture, user interface design, graphic design, usability engineering, and application development.

Nathan enjoys writing about and realizing the potential of various tools of the information architect, including Microsoft Visio and Adobe’s InDesign and Illustrator. He has presented at the Information Architecture Summit on wireframes and deliverables, and has also published on boxesandarrows.com.

Education

M.S. Statistics
University of Chicago, August 1996

B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Statistics
Virginia Tech, June 1995
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa