Clay Newton // Clay is a User Experience Designer interested in emerging technologies and platforms. With a background in interaction design and front end development, Clay has a full spectrum of competencies including ethnographic research, user requirements, IA, accessibility, internationalization, usability, prototyping & development.
Clay was the co-founder and president of Remarkd.com, a run-anywhere ecommerce & auction service. Clay has also designed web applications and user experiences for Bank of America, Navis, eve.com, and other companies. In a previous life, Clay worked as a gardener and cook at The French Laundry, both before and during the Thomas Keller era. Ask him about the time he spilled paint on the new carpet just before the grand opening. He has a lot of tattoos.
The commoditization of smartphone hardware is just the beginning. Plunging prices of integrated “system on a chip” devices, paired with free Linux clones like Android, have enabled not just cheap devices, but,cheap cloud-based devices. This has applied to phone products like the Sony Ericsson LiveView, and also to home appliances like the Sonos home music system.
Here it comes.
