About
Welcome to Munz Media! This is my place to share with you what’s on my mind. My name is Kurt Munz, and I have a strong interest in internet communication, in particular the merge between visual design and usability: well-designed interactions that work. I believe behavioral economics can lend a big favor to design usability. Understanding why people make the choices they do given a finite set of incentives will unlock the elements essential for strong usability. In other words, if you know how someone is likely to view an interaction, you can leverage that toward favorable outcomes (more sales, more trust, more brand loyalty, etc.). Merging these findings with the principles of design can yield fantastic results. I focus on usability because brand interaction is critical in the era of social media. We’ll look at four topics:
- Business
- Design
- Economics
- Marketing
About Kurt Munz
Kurt and his dog Andy.
I’ve been a web designer since dial-up. I built my first web page back in 1996 on the topic of Simpsons trivia. I used that topic (albeit quasi-legally) to build a large numbers of users, but really the site for me was about learning. I graduated from Geocities animated gifs to domain names running custom CGI in Perl.
This site is still about learning. I’ve done many since “The Simpsons Trivia Homepage” (be sure to check out my portfolio), but with each I’m learning new things and applying new ideas. My sites have always been about interaction, and I’m going to do my best to foster that here as well.
Right now, I’m living, designing, writing, running, and cycling in Southern Spain with my dog Andy (named for Andalucía, the area in which he was born). We’re here because I’m an officer in the United States Navy stationed in Rota. I’ve been serving in the Navy since graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communication in 2005 (2005-2009 stationed aboard ships with home ports in San Diego). I run this site for the enjoyment of it, in my free time. Someday, I see myself settling down in the Northeast, closer to Rhode Island, where I grew up.
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