Mark Ury

Current

Co-founder at Storybird
Chief Experience Architect at Blast Radius

Past

Senior Creative Director at Blast Radius
Director, User Experience at Blast Radius
Creative evangelist, talent market strategist at Bernard Hodes Group

Chief Creative Officer, Partner at Animatics

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Education

Dawson College

Recommended

9 people have recommended Mark

Connections

233 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Mark Ury’s Summary

Lacking a label, someone once called me a creative entrepreneur. It stuck.

My professional interests are product, service, and brand design, particularly when they are intertwined, ambiguous, and early-stage. My skills are an ability to combine critical thinking, practical strategy, design empathy, and common sense to prototype and visualize ideas and opportunities.

If anything typifies my work, it’s the desire to create things that have a purpose in people’s life and create a hint of product or service lust.

Personally, I’m intrigued by people with a restless mind, especially at the intersection of culture, business, design, and technology.

Apparently, I'm an herbivore.

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I adore:

Professionally,
-turning products into services
-CEO’s who are still willing to take risks
-the ambiguity that precedes clarity
-that small truly is big, no matter what fad

Personally,
-tenacity, but not pushiness
-wit, particularly of the British/Yiddish variety
-honesty, even brutal
-eclecticism, not eccentricism

Artistically,
-The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Patty Griffin, Springsteen’s heir apparent
-Aimee Bender’s An Invisible Sign of My Own
-Jessica Hagy’s worldview

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Name dropping:
Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Paramount Pictures, Starbucks, IKEA, P&G, Virgin, Viacom, MTV, Nike, AOL, Rogers, United Health Group, Herman Miller, Nokia, Palm, Harman Group, Radio Shack, Intrawest, Aer Lingus, Aeroplan, Mastercard, General Motors, BMW

Mark Ury’s Specialties:

Service design, brand and positioning strategy, startups and new ventures, user experience strategy and design, ethnography, usability, design systems

Community design, social networks, platforms and social media, peer production and innovation, prosumers, edge competencies

Web and mobile applications, widgets, open standards, microformats, social algorithms, search, etc.

Media, entertainment, retail, consumer goods, travel and tourism

Mark Ury’s Experience

Co-founder

Storybird

(Online Media industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Chief Experience Architect

Blast Radius

(Public Company; Internet industry)

December 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Senior Creative Director

Blast Radius

(Internet industry)

September 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Director, User Experience

Blast Radius

(Internet industry)

August 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 2 months)
Creative evangelist, talent market strategist

Bernard Hodes Group

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )
Chief Creative Officer, Partner

Animatics

(Internet industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years )