Welcome! I’m A.J. Kandy.

I’ve been designing things for thirty-five years; the first ten in print and graphics, the last twenty-five in web, mobile, apps, and interactive TV.

👉🏻 I’m currently looking for a new role!

I started in the late 1980s as a typographer, composing stories and headlines for newspapers on CompuGraphic phototypesetting machines, and was there for the start of mainstream desktop publishing using Macs and PCs.

As a graphic designer in the 1990s, I designed countless ads, flyers, brochures, magazines, annual reports and more for clients including Multimicro, the parent company of Compucentre and CompuSmart; Air Canada; Power Corporation; and Bell Sympatico Internet.

I moved to web and interaction design in 2001. Since then, I’ve been working on web and digital projects as part of in-house and agency teams at Bank of America, Central States Funds, Cubeler Inc, Hitachi ID Systems, SMART Technologies, and many more.

I’ve worked on:

• Digital banking platforms
• Investment portfolio management sites
• Pension and healthcare CRM systems
• Enterprise IT management tools
• News and education apps
• Cable set-top-box and Smart TV apps
• E-commerce and corporate websites
• Stock market trading simulations

I moved from my hometown of Montreal to Calgary in 2015, and as of 2022 I’m now based in Chicago, Illinois.

I’m married to UX strategist and author Clarissa Peterson. 🦊