Speaker: Nate Solas
April 13-17, 2010
Denver, Colorado, USA

Speakers: Biography

Nate Solas

Webmaster
Walker Art Center
New Media Initiatives
1750 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis MN
55403 USA
http://www.walkerart.org

Nate Solas is the webmaster at the Walker Art Center where he is responsible for the back-end programming of the walkerart.org websites as well as artsconnected.org and mnartists.org. He began programming web and business applications in the mid 1990s at a variety of startups and small web companies before landing at the Walker in 2003. In his time at the Walker he has helped to redesign the website, built a cellphone-based audio tour system, and most recently launched a new version of ArtsConnectEd. His professional interests include usability research and data retrieval interfaces. Nate received a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Theater from Colorado State University.

Nate will present Hiding our Collections in Plain Site: Interface Strategies for "Findability". [Paper]