Jay Brewer
Jay Brewer (Born 1971 in Presque Isle, Maine, United States) is a designer.
Personal
Jay Brewer grew up with designer and father Rod Brewer and business woman and mother Nadiene Brewer. He has one sibling Rod Brewer III, and attended the University of Maine. 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 Interface 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. He also explored new opportunities in business at Blogpire Productions - creating category and product niche sites that continue to provide targeted news and information to consumers. At Turbine, Inc. he was the Lead User Interface designer for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online. He was also the Lead User Interface Artist and Designer for Infinite Crisis (video game) at Turbine, Inc. a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Jay is currently at Rapid7 leading their user experience team to create next generation security products and data visualization as the Senior Director of User Experience.
References
- Gunelius , Susan (2010). "Blogger in the Spotlight Video Interview with Jay Brewer of Blogpire.com", Newstek
- Matlack, Carol (2009). "Nespresso Pitches 'Luxury' Coffee for Lean Times", Business Week
- Nobel, Carmen (2008). "8 Ways To Make Money Online", Information Week
- Calnan, C (2008). "Startups like Entrecard bet on blogs as the next hot ad market", Mass High Tech
- Johnson, C (2007). "Blogging for Dollars", The Boston Globe
- Brewer, J (2007). "Making the Leap: Going from the Single Blog to the Blogpire", Blog Bash Experts Posts
- Barnako, F (2006). "Blogger amazed at what people will read", MarketWatch
- Grocer, R (2006). "Consumer-Product Blogs Spark a Web Empire", The Wall Street Journal
- Castanier, B (2006). "The Spartan Podcast - Jay Brewer - blogpire.com", Spartan Podcast
- Forman, E (2005). "Blogpire Productions brews blogs for fun and profit", Mass High Tech
- Moby Games