Janis Gonser
Education: Sports Journalism, University of Hamburg, Graphic Design, Tallahassee Community College
Janis Gonser has a large interest in visual design, standards, and usability. His
career started in 1998 during a college course for Sports Journalism in
Hamburg, Germany. He began designing and developing Web sites and graphics
for friends and family. In 1999 he moved from Hamburg to Tallahassee, Florida
where he eventually started working at the Learning Systems Institute (LSI),
a research foundation which is part of the Florida State University. Over
the years his work focused more and more towards the development of Web
sites and applications, but also included responsibilities in the area
of usability testing, print design, and project management.
Recently Janis moved to Austin with his wife Amie, daughter Naya, and their cat Lucie. Besides being busy downloading music from Itunes and eating good food, he spends his time with his family or is seen in the morning hours running at his neighborhood park in the Arboretum area.
Janis's Favorite Things
- Good wine, beer, sausages, and cheese
- KISS principle
- Bauhaus school
- Furniture
- Running
- Outdoor
- IPod
- Beats
Janis's pet peeves
- Bad wine, beer, sausages, and cheese
- Bureaucracy
- Indecisiveness
- Hasselhoff Jokes
- Generalization of German food