Shawn Allen
Partner, Design Director
Shawn Allen is a Stamen partner, designer, and programmer. As Design Director, he is responsible for connecting the studio's visual interfaces with the underlying data and technologies that drive them. He also teaches and consults journalists, policymakers, and the public sector on strategies for making information freely available and easily consumable, both visually and programatically.
Shawn has worked in and on the web for over a decade, first as an interaction designer, then developing user interfaces for console video games at Maxis, then as a freelance web designer and developer before joining Stamen in 2005. He has taught data visualization courses at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and the Interaction Design MFA program at the Parsons School of Visual Arts in New York. He also presents regularly at both design- and technology-related conferences with diverse audiences that include graphic and industrial designers, cartographers, and urban policymakers.