About
Ellen Kanner is the Principal of Kanner Kreative.com and has been for the past 12+ years. She has over twenty years of combined experience in the communications, video, digital imaging and technology fields within the arenas of higher education, the media, non-profit fund-raising, and web-based software development. In the Summer of 2010, she left her full time role at Dartmouth College as Information Architect/User Experience Designer to pursue her dream of returning to her beloved state of Maine and running her own business.
While at Dartmouth, Ellen built the template for the main website in accessible CSS and XHTML that is used by 150+ websites across campus. Ellen is a wiz at picking up new technologies and enjoys doing so. In the early days of the Web, she helped to build MaineToday.com.
On every project Ellen strives to create straight-up, well-researched user-centered designs, solid information architecture with an eye toward the future and clean and accessible CSS & HTML. The end goal being highly functional and interesting web-based experiences. She provides consulting in all areas of user experience, design, development and social media to clients across the United States and internationally.
Her industry experience includes: higher education, tourism, outdoor recreation, entertainment, artists, video production, non-profit fund-raising, e-commerce, and software design. She has also taught a variety of courses at the university level on web site development, design, marketing and Photoshop and presents occasionally at national conferences.
Before working in the web, Ellen worked as a Television Producer/Director for six years, creating commercials, public service announcements and broadcast news segments for both network and cable television production companies.
In 2005, she helped author and photograph a book, New England Cycling by Foghorn Outdoors/Avalon Travel Publishers.
On a different note…
In April 2011, she and her husband fulfilled a lifelong dream and opened a tearoom, Dobrá Tea in Portland’s Old Port. Ellen is also a designer of other sorts with jewelry designs in juried galleries and museum shops throughout New England. She enjoys travel, gardening, kayaking, yoga, photography, hiking and cycling, has been paid to do all of them (except for yoga!), and still keeps them as hobbies. Building upon her interest in design and project management skills, she enjoys constructing things and remodeled a house with her husband in 2005. She is based out of her favorite town, Portland, Maine.