About
Jeremy Fuksa is a designer and creative technologist in Kansas City. He has spent thirty years making things for screens, and sometimes for the rooms around them.
In the spring of 1996 I was skipping class to teach myself HTML, and somehow that ended with me showing the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education the World Wide Web off a 3.5" floppy, because their presentation room had no internet. All that self-teaching didn’t do my grades any favors, but it built my career.
The idea leads the work.
I’ve been told countless times, “I need a website.” But that has rarely included why. Craft, polish, and the right tools don’t save work that has no idea under it.
Accessible doesn’t have to mean ugly.
I learned a lot about accessibility while designing for healthcare. Now my goal is to make conceptual work pass accessibility tests, too.
The blending of technological and physical experience.
My favorite projects over the years are ones that blend technology and physical experience in meaningful ways, like a trade-show booth where people fought zombie sheep with a toy battle axe.
Every problem is a rabbit hole to me.
When an old laptop died and took my radio scanner software with it, I built my own for Mac, and that snowballed into a kiosk in my office.