Portfolio: Anthony Colfelt
If I ever teach anything to anybody about IA, IXD, or UX, it will be to honor Anthony Colfelt. Anthony mentored me at Classmates.com and at Myfamily.com. He’s been a great friend, guide, teacher, ass kicker and secret weapon for me for a long time. I lean on his lessons daily, both personally and professionally.
I met Anthony at a party. He walked right up after I tried to impress his girlfriend with my fancy job title – Talk about the worst come-on ever. I mean, normally if I’d tried that in a bar, some meat-sock would have come up and just knocked me out. But the kind of guy Ant is, he made me his intellectual bitch for two years. I guess it could have been painful, but it’s hard to take seriously somebody who laughs like Knox Harrington from “The Big Lebowski”, combines Euro-trash and protein shakes, yet hails from the birthplace of Yahoo Serious. And I was always learning from him, so the medium never really compromised the message.
I have unending respect for the guy, for his work, for his discipline, and I hope to be able to return the favor. He works for some group called Different now. I’m sure their being transformed.