Patrick Ording: Interactive Media Designer and Developer

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About me

Hi, my name is Patrick Ording. I'm a 24 year old designer and developer from Germany. I lived and studied in the United Kingdom for almost two years before moving back to Germany, where I'm currently living in a small town called Neuburg an der Donau.

My work ranges from offline to online media but even if I'm a multi-disciplinary person I'm happiest when designing and building websites. I'm definitely on the designer side of the programmer/designer fence but I've learned various coding languages since I started my "media career" four years ago. (Visit my Xing profile for more information about my educational background) Most of my skills come from university lectures and from projects that I was involved into but I've also learnt a lot autodidactically by reading books or magazines. Many of the projects that I did involved working with real life clients which has proven invaluable as university lectures can be very theoretical sometimes.

My toolbox includes the Adobe Creative Suite, several pens, a sketchbook and great tunes. I get my inspiration by seeing what others are doing on the web but I also look outside the digital world for fresh ideas. When not looking at a computer screen you'll find me doing sports, listening to podcasts or going to the cinema.

The Future

I'm currently looking for a job where I can work in a team of enthusiastic, likeminded individuals, building exciting and user-friendly websites. My core competencies are:

Target audience specific planning of websites employing for example Personas and Scenarios.
Creation of user-oriented interfaces with Photosop/Illustrator/Flash.
Creation of accessible websites with semantic and search engine orientated (X)HTML markup.
Building cross-browser working layouts with CSS.
Development and customisation of templates. (Experience in working with the Smarty Template Engine and the creation of XSLT templates)
Usability testing and interpretation of the results.

So if you need a passionate person in your team who constantly strives to improve his knowledge feel free to drop me a line. I'm happy to tell you more about me and my projects.

About this site

My brief for this site was simple: Showcase projects but make them easy to access. That's why I used meaningful project images and added useful project descriptions. The site was hand-built by me and I hope that the code behind the scenes is as beautiful as the finished page. Currently (i.e. November 2008) this site is only a showcase of my work but I'm planning to set up and add my own blog. Until then check out my tumblelog.