Hi, I'm Beth Dean.

I'm a user experience designer. In the past I've done front end development, user interface design and icon illustration. I've also taught the occasional college web design class. By day I work for a large .com in San Francisco. By night I draw comics. I also listen to music, hang out in the park, eat food, get tattoos and play with my dogs. I usually look very serious but I assure you usually I am not. I don't do freelance any more unless it's for something really special.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. That's me on the left with the crayons, with my mom and grandmas.

In Ohio I liked to geek out with my friends at the Cleveland Web Standards Association.

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Shout Outs

Congratulations on making it this far. You will now be rewarded with an incomplete list of people I think are awesome:

• Airbag Industries
• Lea Alcantara
• Mark Bixby
• Stephen Caver
• Brad Colbow
• Jeff Croft
• Brendan Cullen
• Designing Interactive
• Brad Dielman
• Luke Dorny
• Rob Goodlatte
• Chris Harrison
• Lisa Herrod
• Dana Kashubeck
• Nate Klaiber
• Russ Lephew
• Emily Lewis
• Ethan Marcotte
• Eric Meyer
• Jen Myers
• Matthew Oliphant
• Phil Rundle
• Dave Seah
• Bridget Stewart
• Eric Wiley
• J Wynia

This site was built using:

• A 15" Macbook Pro (unibody)
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Cufon
• jQuery
• Diet Coke
• Pizza
• Puppy dog tails

The design is heavily inspired by the work of Barbara Kruger. Fixed backgrounds are the new black. This is meant to be viewed really big.