Ben Sykes

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Bio

Ben Sykes is a dev / design hybrid with a focus on interaction (IxD), user experience (UX), and emotional design. He always had a strong desire to tell stories, and eventually ended up in Hollywood where he worked in TV & film on such projects as Melrose Place, American Beauty, and Murder In The First.

In the mid 1990s, he started a web design consultancy and has since worked on various projects with companies such as Warner Brothers Music, Artisan Entertainment, and Digital Evolution, just to name a few. In 2003, he joined the Marine Corps Reserves and was deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon his return he continued to work with such companies as: Oversee.net, American IdolUnderground, NSA, NASA, Oracle, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems.

Other recent projects include: All For Good, StyledOn, Samesurf, and YouSendit's shared workspace.

Ben Sykes currently works as a designer at Google.