A great photo of me mid-thought.

Hi, my name is Omer Ziv.

I've been using the internet forever (well, since 1993) and have worked at various internet-related jobs since 2004.
Most of my work these days is in that wonderful field that connects between Design, Code and Content (some people like to call it UX).
I really like what I do.

, I live in Tel Aviv (but dream of New York) and spend my days trying to help people with their projects, freelance style. I'll be very happy if you contact me and tell me what you're up to.

This isn't really a portfolio, is it?

Not really, portfolios usually have more images in them. Instead, I've made a few lists that I'd like you to go through. Yes, I want you to read lists.
(Come on, they're not long and it's OK to skim.)

Things I am doing these days:

• I am at BaconOppenheim HQ at least twice a week.
  Dani and Hovav are geniuses, they've created an awesome little team and we get to work with big, interesting companies like Google and Face.com.
  You should definitely hire us, even if we need a new website.
• I'm back at Bezalel, but on the faculty's side.
  I assist the wonderful Gila Kaplan in her Book Design studio class. Gila is one of the most interesting book designers in the country, I follow her lead and try to help the students imagine where books might be going these days.
• I work on a couple of small freelance projects. I'll write more when I can.

Things I am no longer doing but am happy I was a part of:

• I worked on a new user interface for Waze v3.0.
  Waze is a mobile app that has the potential to kill traffic by allowing drivers to help each other out.

• I graduated from the Visual Communications department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. If you want, you can see some of my (old) school work here.

  My Final Project at Bezalel is a blog named From Points to Pixels that talks about typographic design and it's shift from print to the web.
  

• I worked with Gila Kaplan on Yonatan Vinitsky's "The Neglected Genie". Yonatan is a very interesting artist, you should look him up.

• I studied at Parsons for a semester on a student exchange program.
  While living in New York I got to intern at Boxee and participated in the EyeWriter collab which was exciting/touching/important/awesome.

  There are a lot of things I liked in NYC.

• I worked with some really great people and learned a lot about social networks while working at 8hands (the project's website is offline now, but this video explains what it was all about).
• I was part of a 3 person team that created Reshet's website back in 2007 (we were competing with a 100+ person team that worked on the-other-tv-broadcaster's website).
• My first real-life job was at Mantis, where I got to design, code and find out about the geek heaven mentioned above.
• I created a collective blog named uhm.nu incorporated. It's in Hebrew and it started before they were called "blogs".
• Back when the internet started, I was in the Swankarmy.

Places where you can find me:

• A more detailed professional profile can be found over on LinkedIn.
• I am social on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
• I upload photos to Flickr and Instagram.
• I want, wish and need via Svpply.
• I use Email.

Thank you for reading.
Have a nice