About Eston
I’m Eston Bond, a 22-year-old interaction designer living in Palo Alto, California. By day, I work at Facebook, working primarily on growth and mobile projects there. If you’re ever in Palo Alto, e-mail me and say hello. Maybe we can have a beer at The Rose & Crown.
Professional Life
I’ve been programming since I was ten, originally learning QBASIC in elementary school. In high school, I worked for a government contractor writing software for the Palm OS and Windows CE; I also wrote the first commercially-available HTML editor for the Palm OS. I didn’t start seriously in interaction design until some time in late 2004. Even with the late start, aesthetics have always been a fixation of mine; combining that with my love for people and the interactions between them, interaction design is a happy medium. I am lucky enough to be able to exercise what was originally a hobby as a profession, and I’m liking every day of it.
Outside of work at Facebook, I write periodically for O’Reilly Media and used to act as a freelance social media consultant for companies attempting to establish a social presence. For the next few weeks, I’m volunteering to teach a sixth-grade technology class in nearby San Jose as part of the cool Citizen Schools programme.
I’ve never been formally trained in web design or development; my formal education is in Economics at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where I graduated with a BA in May 2007. While at Michigan, I gained a deep interest in the role of journalism in new media, being the Managing Online Editor of the independent student newspaper The Michigan Daily for a year and half before I resigned (with some colleagues) after philosophical indifferences. Eventually, after I feel that I’ve completed the work I’ve set out to do here in Silicon Valley (if I ever do,) I plan on going back to school for a Ph.D.
Personal Life
I keep busy for the ten percent of the time I’m not doing something involving social networking, new media or design. I co-founded an electronic dance music group at the University of Michigan and am still actively involved in mashups and music production, currently working with a co-founder on a concept album.
I also spend a lot of weekend time shooting and driving. I am a firearms enthusiast and either shoot handguns or sporting clays every weekend. I also waste a fair amount of money on my car, a 2007 Acura TSX, which becomes progressively modified over time as I explore and master the car at its limits. I’m on Acurazine as Populuxe, where every now and then I’ll chime in with some K-series knowledge.
About hyalineskies
hyalineskies has been around since 2002 and has been a blog on social media since last 2004. This is currently hyalineskies’s ninth iteration, with design heavily influenced by International Typographic Style and modernist architecture. All headlines on this site are rendered in Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk. The hyalineskies logotype is a modification of Helvetica Neue 45 Light. The only “true” colour used on this site is a hexadecimal representation of Pantone 381 C.
