Adam Ruf

Adam Ruf

San Francisco

San Francisco UX designer who codes. Full-time at BrightRoll (Yahoo), part-time User Experience Design faculty at Academy of Art University, and part-time freelance UX designer through adamruf.com.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    BrightRoll

  • Job Title

    Senior User Experience Designer

  • Spoken Languages

    • English, Mandarin, Japanese

157 Achievements

  • Collections
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  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Data Binding with D3
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Selections with D3
  • Next Steps
  • Financing Our Company
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • Protecting Yourself With Contracts
  • Establishing a Proper Workflow
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Putting the "Fun" Back in "Functions"
  • Selling Your Product
  • Shopping List
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Marketing Your Product
  • Product Market Fit
  • Discovery
  • Protecting and Sharing Your Work
  • Licensing
  • Fair Use and Public Domain
  • Getting Started with Copyright
  • Video Marketing
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Social Media
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Things That Count
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Wireframing, Interaction Design and Planning
  • Designing our App
  • Working with a Developer
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • Ins & Outs
  • Say Hello to Python
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Getting Started with Advanced Sass
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Creating HTML Content
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Getting Work Done
  • A Lifestyle Choice
  • Growing Your Business
  • Client Services
  • Sales and Pitching
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Intro to User Experience
  • Introduction
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Rails Deployment
  • Building the Profile Page
  • Testing the Whole App
  • Rails Routing
  • Writing Tests
  • Selectors
  • Tables
  • Customizing Ruby on Rails Forms
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Website Basics
  • Framework Foundations
  • Printing
  • Page Layout
  • Box Model
  • Text
  • Data Types
  • Selectors
  • Introduction
  • Forms
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Ruby on Rails Authentication
  • Rails Frontend Development
  • Getting Started With Rails
  • Newbie