Tori Breitling, Experience Architect for Launchpad Coworking, brings to the project a long history of both visual design and retail experience. Starting in graphic design in the days of the Mac Plus, her career grew with the boom of desktop publishing. (It was during this time that she and Julie Gomoll first began working together, when Julie engaged Tori as a freelance illustrator at Go Media.) Tori’s increasing computer savvy led her to managing some of the first and later largest computer center operations for Kinko’s stores in Texas and in the Bay Area.
While in the Bay area, her formal education in film piqued her interest in CD-ROM development, which quickly led her to make the transition to working primarily on the web. Upon returning to Austin, Breitling once again worked with Julie as Senior Designer for Excite’s communities products. It was this experience in dynamic applications which would define her career in the coming years, as she became more focused on the user experience aspects of web design, and worked on increasingly complicated desktop and web applications for The Cobalt Group, Halsoft, Inc., and HomeAway.
Tori’s long history of working with computers – and working with people working with computers – makes her especially sensitive to the user experience. Her goal is to create interactions that are useful, usable and elegant.
