An established and award-winning web publisher before he co-founded Yeti Arts, Aaron Louie has been working on the web for a long time. While studying Biology and Psychology at the University of Oregon, Aaron began creating web pages at the suggestion of a friend, as a way to archive and display Aaron's quirky original comic series, Ka-Blouie!.
Ka-Blouie had been published in the Oregon Daily Emerald, and Aaron took it as a personal challenge to take the comic to a new medium. So, in 1994, after a few weeks of intense HTML coding, the Kablouie Gallery was established as one of the first online comic strips.
Aaron continued his work on The Kablouie Galley throughout his college career, eventually winning a Lycos Top 5% Of The Web Award in 1995. He also assisted his friends in learning HTML, as well as creating several web sites for campus organizations.
Aaron is a very active designer and, in addition to designing for Yeti Arts, he has managed the redesign of the University of Washington Department of Orthopaedics web site, designed a distributed content management system using the Zope platform, conducted research through the UW's Program for Educational Transformation Through Technology, and even illustrated a book with his comics. He recently completed his master's degree in Library & Information Science at the University of Washington in Seattle and is active in the information architecture and library community.
When designing web sites, Aaron says he focuses on the interplay of the users' experience with the structure of the information: "Balance and unbalance; a design must be so natural and intuitive to users that almost no thought is necessary."
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