Nick Finck

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Nick Finck is a UX & design professional, advisor, mentor, coach, speaker<ref>previous speaking engagements</ref> and is the founder of Craft & Rigor, a design operations consultancy, in Seattle, Washington. He is known as the co-creator of progressive enhancement.<ref>Nick Finck & Steven Champeon coined Progressive enhancement at the SXSW Interactive conference on March 11, 2003 in Austin.</ref> Nick was a co-creator if the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Education Task Force curriculum (Interact/WaSP) which was later merged into the W3C's learning material.<ref>Interact/WaSP</ref>

He was the founder and publisher of Digital Web Magazine, a publication for web professionals, in 1996 until it ceased publication in 2009.<ref>Digital Web Magazine closes its doors</ref>

Nick was a founding member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP), and a founding member of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI). He was also the Pacific Northwest Ambassador for UXnet prior to it being disbanded in 2010.<ref>UXnet disbanded on Friday, June 18th, 2010</ref>

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In 1994 Nick established his first web consultancy, Designs by Nick Finck, based out of Portland, Oregon. Since then he has headed up design a research at many agencies and tech product & service companies.

Nick was the head of design & research at AWS (2013-2015), product design manager for Platform at Facebook (2015-2017), he was the head of design & research at Ubermind (2011-2013) which was acquired by Deloitte<ref>Deloitte Acquires Ubermind; Establishes Lead in the Mobile Revolution</ref> in 2012, the head of design & research and founder of the Seattle office of projekt202 (2013), and co-founder of Blue Flavor (2005-2011) that was acquired by Blink<ref>Blink Interactive, Inc. Acquires Blue Flavor</ref> in 2010.

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