HenryTapia.com – Experiencing and designing things

Me

Hello! I’m a web designer from Sydney, Australia. I started out as an old-school webmaster around 12 years ago before going into freelance web design. Around 8 years ago I got into agency work, creating sites for government organisations, financial companies and consumer brands.

Late in 2006, my fiancée and I took a sabbatical and went travelling around Asia and the Americas, and then laid our backpacks down in the UK, where we gained good work experience (and saw bits and pieces of Europe whenever we could).

In 2010 I returned to my home town of Sydney after working in London for three years in e-commerce user experience, designing sites for leading UK retailers. I’ve since been working again in the digital agency space. In my work I aim for a simple and clean aesthetic that can engage users on an emotional level. I always combine this with ease of use and clarity of purpose.

In 2011 I took a position at Atlassian in Sydney, working as a UI and Interaction designer on one of their leading products.

I’m really interested in how we experience our environment, and how we can improve that experience through design and technology. I’m also a firm believer in lifelong learning, in whatever form that may take.

This site

I’m running this site using the ever-popular Wordpress blogging platform, using a theme I rolled myself, while using various plugins for extra bits and pieces of functionality.

In general, the typefaces I’m using are Georgia for body text and Clarendon for the headings (but some posts may vary from this combination). I’m using cufón for embedding the headings for now, but I might change to an @font-face method in the not too distant future (actually, some blog posts are now using Typekit).