Hi there. My name is Josh Sassoon, and I’m an interactive art director and creative developer, with a strong focus on UI/UX and SEO. My experience covers the whole spectrum of the design and production process – I concept, wire, design, and build sites.
Currently I’m on staff at Sony Music Entertainment in New York, where I work on designing sites for our major artists and I work on our global commerce platform. Before that I was at MySpace, and before that I was freelance, with long term contracts working on entertainment sites in Los Angeles, and doing flash design/dev on the Nissan/Infiniti sites.
I have a background in writing code (PERL way back in the day, then PHP/MySQL, Actionscript/Javascript, and of course front-end HTML/CSS), building and animating flash sites, and print design (yes, I remember quark, but now I love indesign).
These days I spend most of my time thinking up great user experiences (tons of wireframing and UI/UX considerations for maximum usability!) and doing the creative comps. I work closely with developers and engineers to make sure we are building the best possible sites, both for user-experience and SEO, but also for ease of maintenance, so we can keep sites flexible and easy-to-change.
Another big part of my current job is working on creating and improving a scalable commerce platform, allowing my team to design and deploy a large quantity of individually themed stores, but all using a flexible codebase that we are constantly testing and improving.
Take a look around – thanks for visiting!
