Robot Loves Kitten

Why Does Robot Love Kitten? The name’s an homage to the classic ASCII “zen simulation” game Robot Finds Kitten. It also helps scare away enterprise folk. (See any around?)

My name is Tim Barkow and Robot Loves Kitten is my bespoke design & development studio. My team and I believe design always serves a purpose, and while analytics are important, we’ve been put here to create and be great, not optimize to local maxima.

We know things about graphic design, interaction design, and Web programming (among other topics). We’re deep in several Ruby on Rails and Codeigniter projects these days. We love WordPress and the tricks we can make it perform. We write all our CSS using LESS, and deploy to Heroku whenever we can.

I have 20+ years experience in editorial, design, strategy, product management, and programming. I started copy-editing print magazines, moved to writing and editing at Wired, and led the technology news team at wirednews.com. I’ve written for national magazines, including Wired, Inc., Fast Company, and more. I co-founded online storytelling & comix community SMITH magazine, creator of the NYTimes bestseller “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-word Memoirs By Writers Famous & Obscure”.

FYI, robots hate company politics, the words “enterprise” and “integration,” and placating humans with stupid ideas about the Web. Robots embrace the future. We don’t say yes—we say affirmative.

Contact Tim via robot {at} robotloveskitten(.)com