Shelton Davis
Experience Designer :: User Experience Design, Interactive Prototyping, Information Architecture
Shelton is a user experience designer who specializes in user-centered design for a wide variety of medical and consumer-oriented products. He spent the past three years at Georgia Tech as a Master's student and lead human factors designer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute's (GTRI) Accessibility Evaluation Facility. Having worked with companies like Coca Cola, BioLab, the Shepherd Center, Tylenol, Kraft Foods and Carbon Motors, his technical experience covers areas from touch screen interface design to complex prototyping for user research and 3D modeling.
Shelton's a former decathlete, which means that he participated in a sport that combined ten track and field events. While he occasionally still does jump and throw things (sometimes in the office), he's better these days at relating that experience to design: "Preparing for a decathlon is daunting! You've got intense physical and mental preparation, and then you've got the logistics - for the two day competition I would need seven pairs of shoes (spikes & spins), pole vault poles (4), javelins (2), shot puts (2), measuring tape, pillow, athletic tape, first aid kit, new spikes, chalk, a tree full of bananas and gallons of water. The process of pulling this together was never the same. I find the design process extremely similar - it frequently necessitates a new way of thinking, on the spot adjustments and an intricate background of iteration, practice and preparation to produce a great experience."
Shelton holds a Master's in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's in Psychology from the University of Southern California.
shelton (at) echoviz (dot) com
Shelton's a former decathlete, which means that he participated in a sport that combined ten track and field events. While he occasionally still does jump and throw things (sometimes in the office), he's better these days at relating that experience to design: "Preparing for a decathlon is daunting! You've got intense physical and mental preparation, and then you've got the logistics - for the two day competition I would need seven pairs of shoes (spikes & spins), pole vault poles (4), javelins (2), shot puts (2), measuring tape, pillow, athletic tape, first aid kit, new spikes, chalk, a tree full of bananas and gallons of water. The process of pulling this together was never the same. I find the design process extremely similar - it frequently necessitates a new way of thinking, on the spot adjustments and an intricate background of iteration, practice and preparation to produce a great experience."
Shelton holds a Master's in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's in Psychology from the University of Southern California.
shelton (at) echoviz (dot) com
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