Faculty Profiles
Nate Bolt : President, Bolt | Peters
Nate is the co-founder and president of Bolt | Peters, co-author of Remote Research, designer of Ethnio, and creator of Beep Show.
After creating the User Experience department at Clear Ink in 1999, which included the construction of Natural Environment and Remote Observation laboratories, Nate began working with the team at B|P to conduct hundreds of UX research and design projects for Sony, Oracle, HP, Greenpeace, Electronic Arts, and others.
Nate speaks regularly in academic and commercial settings – SXSW, UX London, CHI, UX Week, U.C. Berkeley, and the Urban Libraries Council where he gave a keynote on the future of library user experience.
Working with faculty at the University of California, San Diego, he created a degree titled “Digital Technology and Society,” which focused on the social impact of technology. He also completed a year of communications studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was jailed briefly for playing drums in public without a license.
He’s an invited photographer at Phoot Camp, and has photos and time lapse photography featured on ABC News, the Today Show, National Geographic, and San Francisco Magazine. He also manages a healthy Instagram addiction.
- Education
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BA, Digital Technology and Society, University of California, San Diego
- Professional Experience
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Director of User Experience, Clear Ink
- Publications
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A List Apart, Boxes and Arrows, VentureBeat, UX Booth, UX Magazine.
- On the Web
