Robot Loves Kitten

Why Does Robot Love Kitten? That’s the question a geeky dad is trying to answer about his brilliant new baby boy. It’s also an homage to the classic ASCII “zen simulation” game Robot Finds Kitten, which is how I feel most of the time.

My name is Tim Barkow and Robot Loves Kitten also serves as my Portland, OR, bespoke design & development studio. Me and my team believe less design is best, and we always put the user first.

We know graphic design, interaction design, and Web programming (among other things). We are primarily focused on creating new and innovative online communities through small, focused projects that can be developed and launched quickly, so they can start generating feedback and results. We’re deep in several Ruby on Rails and Codeigniter projects these days.

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 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