About

Adam earned his BFA in Graphic Design in 2010 and has since dedicated himself to the field of web development.

An experienced designer and front-end developer, Adam has a keen interest in collaboratively solving complex problems with simple, practical solutions.

He’s also an accessibility professional, serving as West Virginia University's principal digital accessibility expert for the last six years.

When he’s not busy creating digital products, you’ll find him scaling sheer rock faces and braving rapids as an avid rock climber and whitewater kayaker. His insatiable appetite for adventure has led him to discover the natural beauty of our world, and he draws inspiration from its vastness in both his personal and professional pursuits.

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Work history

Web Accessibility Specialist WVU, 2017-Current
Front-end Developer WVU, 2013-2016
Web Motion Designer WVU, 2010-2012

Principles

Code

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

–Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman

“Write code that’s easy to delete, not easy to extend.

Obvious, explicit, duplicated dumb code is far, far, far better than magic, implicit, poorly-abstracted code.”

“The real ‘clean code’ is code that is easy to understand, verify, and change.

Which often means more repetition and less abstraction.”

–Sophie Alpert

“Under-engineering is the art of thinking rather than doing.”

–Andy Bell

Principles

Design

“The details are not the details. They make the design.”

–Charles Eames

“To design is much more than to simplify, to assemble, to order, or even to edit...

It is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.”

–Paul Rand

“Great design to us means content is king, function is more, and beautiful is best.

–sparkart

“Big type, even huge type, can be beautiful and useful.”

But poise is usually far more important than size—and poise consists primarily of emptiness.”

–Robert Bringhurst

Principles

Life

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

–Abraham Lincoln

“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.

–Helen Tran

“If you believe you’ve reached enlightenment, you’ve merely arrived at your limitation.

–Milton Glaser

“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”

–Daniel L. Reardon