{"id":372,"date":"2021-10-14T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/civic-design-2021\/?post_type=speakers&p=372"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:30:23","slug":"edward-alton","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/civic-design-2021\/people\/edward-alton\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Alton is a UX designer driven to improve the usability of government technology in the United States. He joined Ad Hoc in 2019 after 20 years of running his own multi-disciplinary design practice where his clients included Verizon, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a wide variety of other organizations in the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

After establishing a specialty in exhibition design early in his career, the emerging web appealed strongly to Ed’s interests with its melding of aesthetic, functional, and technical considerations; his design practice moved quickly into this area. Eventually a desire to tackle the steep challenges of “civic tech”\u2014a term new to him in 2017\u2014marked an immediate pivot point.<\/p>\n

Outside of all that, Ed is a devoted dad to two lovely sons and two *very* high maintenance French Bulldogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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