Idan Gazit

Lead Designer

  • Tel Aviv

Founder at Skills

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Biography

Django core team member, Cofounder of Skills, developer/designer hybrid, builder of beautiful web applications with a stellar user experience. Particularly interested in info visualization and extracting meaning from the firehose of data we are subjected to in the information age.

Industry Expertise

Design
Computer Software
Internet

Areas of Expertise

Django
Web Development
Web Applications
Interaction Design
User Experience Design

Education

New York University

BA

Computer Science & Mathematics

2003

Graduated Cum Laude

Affiliations

  • DjangoCon Europe Organizers
  • Python Web Developers-Israel

Event Appearances

Data, Design, Meaning

Pycon US 2012  Santa Clara, CA

2012-03-08

Sketching a Better Product

Pycon US 2012  Santa Clara, CA

2012-03-10

Keynote: Designers Make It Go to Eleven!

Djangocon US 2011  Portland, OR

2011-09-06

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Sample Talks

Keynote: Designers Make It Go to Eleven!

My keynote address at Djangocon US 2011. Covers the fundamentals of product design, and explores the benefits that designers bring to engineering-driven, open-source culture and products in general. Slides and video online at http://lanyrd.com/2011/djangocon-us/sggmr/

Style

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Author Appearance
  • Corporate Training