About: Nick Bouton is a user experience developer and community architect based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Nick has over 10 years of experience in software and web application development.

At the Habañero Consulting Group, Nick is responsible for the front-end development of web solutions, which includes interaction and interface design and development, establishing look and feel, and ensuring usability. A dynamic developer, Nick has extensive experience developing rich internet applications using AJAX, Web 2.0, and client scripting and also works with the .NET Framework and various open source platforms.

In addition to his position at Habañero, Nick is the founder of Taunt Media, a company that sponsors, develops, and nurtures several community-driven collaborative website properties including Protagonize, a collaborative fiction-writing site. Prior to beginning work at Habañero, he held a variety of positions including Product Manager at ThoughtFarmer, Software Developer at OpenRoad Communications, and Software Engineer at Versatile Mobile Systems. Nick majored in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia; holds an Associate’s Certificate, Java Programming from the British Columbia Institute of Technology; and earned certifications in ColdFusion and XML technologies. He is an active member of several professional associations including the Interaction Design Association and the Vancouver User Experience Group.