Jay Brewer
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Jay Brewer is a designer.
. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts after college, and married Maya Bazar having two children.
and Product Designer at Abuzz.com (acquired by The New York Times
), he managed the team that created the award-winning Abuzz.com website, achieving over 1 million users and 20 commercial affiliates.
At Affinnova, he created a new way to gain insight into product and graphic design using online consumers to evolve designs. At Turbine, Inc. he was the Lead User Interface designer for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online. Currently he is the Lead User Interface Artist and Designer for an unannounced video game project at Turbine, Inc.
a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and exploring new opportunities in business at Blogpire Productions - creating category and product niche sites that provide targeted news and information to consumers. In his spare time, he creates video games, websites, and music to continue to enrich his art, design, and technology skills.
Personal
Jay Brewer grew up with designer and father Rod Brewer and business woman Nadiene Brewer. He has one sibling Rod Brewer III, and attended the University of MaineUniversity of Maine
The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...
. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts after college, and married Maya Bazar having two children.
Professional career
Brewer has been working in various areas of design and technology for 15+ years. At Natural Intelligence, Inc., he helped to design the interface of the first Java development environment for the Macintosh. Then as a product designer at Hands On Toys, he won more than 10 awards for his work, including Parenting Magazine's Award for Best Toy of 1997. As the Chief User InterfaceUser interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
and Product Designer at Abuzz.com (acquired by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
), he managed the team that created the award-winning Abuzz.com website, achieving over 1 million users and 20 commercial affiliates.
At Affinnova, he created a new way to gain insight into product and graphic design using online consumers to evolve designs. At Turbine, Inc. he was the Lead User Interface designer for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online. Currently he is the Lead User Interface Artist and Designer for an unannounced video game project at Turbine, Inc.
Turbine, Inc.
Turbine, Inc. is an American computer game developer that pioneers 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing games . Turbine was founded by Johnny Monsarrat, Jeremy Gaffney, Kevin Langevin, and Timothy Miller, changing their company name in 2005 to Turbine, Inc...
a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and exploring new opportunities in business at Blogpire Productions - creating category and product niche sites that provide targeted news and information to consumers. In his spare time, he creates video games, websites, and music to continue to enrich his art, design, and technology skills.