Meet the team
Billy Belchev
President
Bilyan "Billy" Belchev is the president of Webitects. Since the beginning of the millennium (which would only be twelve years), he has believed that the most efficient way to design a successful site is to consult directly with the people who will be using it. This approach has a fancy name–user research. Billy stays focused on lightweight (Agile) methods to user research that can be applied to projects with time or budget limits (in other words, all projects).
Billy likes sharing his opinion with clients on how to avoid producing Carelman teapots (shown in photo), but only if he has enough evidence that it might help. When clients are not around to listen, Billy lectures graduate students in the Usability & Research course at Illinois Institute of Technology, or various conference attendees.
In his spare time, Billy works on forming new opinions (to be shared in the future) on how to solve complex information problems (like faceted search), how to conduct usability testing more efficiently, or where to buy good wine at fair prices.
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Recent blog posts
- Design: the in word that is now out
- Published on Sep 17, 2010 | Category: design
- How could anyone help but love the term ‘design?’ I certainly did. It was an in word in my line of work—implying ingenuity, inventiveness, innovation, intelligence,...
- The future of print magazines? Only a part of it.
- Published on Dec 17, 2009 | Category: design
- While enjoying my morning homemade espresso, I stumbled upon a video of a prototype digital magazine reader called Mag+ and dubbed by some as the future (and the savior) of print mag...
- Webitects is presenting at Agile2009
- Published on Aug 24, 2009 | Category: design
- If you have done any Agile software development, you already know that the biggest Agile conference will be in Chicago this year. Well, we got ourselves a presentation spot at Agile2...