Ryan Olshavsky, Author at Boxes and Arrows

Author: Ryan Olshavsky

, copy editor for Boxes and Arrows, is an Interaction Designer at EBay. Prior to joining Ebay, he was Interaction Designer working on messanger for Yahoo!, and before that Ryan spent 4.5+ years at Cooper Interaction Design (now, Cooper) as a Design Communicator.

Ryan has a long history with small, design-oriented publications—at various times he has written for, edited, and designed newsletters for his design class at Carnegie Mellon University (SAiD), the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of IDSA (InCA), and Cooper. When he's not working on newsletters, Ryan dabbles in illustration, “playing” guitar and bass, looking up words in the dictionary, watching “The Simpsons,” collecting “Futurama” merchandise, and pursuing other nerdy activities. You can learn more about Ryan on his personal website—designjerk.com—if you're into that.

Articles by this author:

May 12, 2003 Deliverables / Visual and Visible

Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation

Posted by Ryan Olshavsky

Good organization, complete information, and clear writing are, of course, key to the success of any design document, but there are some other, less-obvious techniques you can use to make your documents more readable and understandable. Here are a few of them.

October 27, 2002 Reviews

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Posted by Ryan Olshavsky

While there are many fine books that go into great depth on various aspects of the information architecture and design process, “Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web” is, essentially, a primer on successful website design.