More than visuals.
In 2015, I built niche websites with a focus on learning SEO and the affiliate marketing business. I designed these websites with Gestalt Principles in mind in order to improve the click-through rates on my ads and keywords. Unknowingly, I had dipped my fingers into the world of UX. Within a couple of years, I had started taking on freelance projects building applications around my customers’ needs and constraints—another important aspect of UX design. All the while my time as a research engineer had introduced me to UX research. By 2019, I founded my first startup trying to solve a problem through design. Still, I can reflect on my experiences—how does one approach a problem? how does one identify an opportunity? how does one handle tradeoffs? and how does one drive the idea forward?—and see the design process take shape.
Demo the product. Hire the designer.
As Founder, I led brand and design for my startup handling all things UX.
Here’s what’s on my shelf.
Valuable Resource
“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
Creative constraint
Unlock creativity while working with constraints.
Team Effort
Embrace collaboration to address business needs.
Design System
A widely popular design system methodology.
Design Principles
Design Systems are more than a components-only guide.
Equity Design
Make design solutions meet the varied needs of users.
UX & Marketing
Designing a product and learning how to sell your ideas.
Checklist
A list of essential tasks and activities when developing design systems.
User Interface
UI templates and best practices.
Publications
Peer-reviewed literature
Automated evaluation of service oriented architecture systems: a case study
Hesham Fouad, Antonio Gilliam, Suleyman Guleyupoglu, Stephen M. Russell
SPIE Defense + Security, 2017
Modeling User Behaviors to Enable Context-Aware Proactive Decision Support
Benjamin Newsom, Ranjeev Mittu, Mark A. Livingston, Stephen Russell, Jonathan W. Decker, Eric Leadbetter, Ira S. Moskowitz, Antonio Gilliam, Ciara Sibley, Joseph Coyne, Myriam Abramson
Springer, Cham, 2016
CEDARS: Combined exploratory data analysis recommender system
Mark A. Livingston, Stephen Russell, Jonathan W. Decker, Eric Leadbetter, Antonio Gilliam
IEEE, 2015
Patent
Recommender system for exploratory data analysis
Mark A. Livingston, Stephen Russell, Jonathan W. Decker, Suleyman Guleyupoglu, Antonio Gilliam
Grant, 2019
Meta-Agent Based Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems for SOA System Evaluation
Hesham Fouad, Stephen Russell, Antonio Gilliam
Application, 2017