About Ted Billups

As founder and managing partner of his web development consultancy in Chicago, Billups Design, Ted has successfully built long-standing client relationships by championing interactive design approaches that couple usability best-practices ‘as a vital customer service’ with interface and content design that engages and communicates value to his clients’ online customers and prospects.

Ted Billups has more than thirteen years of experience as an online brand manager, web designer and creative director for agencies like Turner Broadcasting, Web Design Group, Inc. and Divine, Inc. He has headed creative and technology teams managing such brands as Virgin Records, Coca-Cola, Mark Shale, Nike, United Airlines, Gannett, CNN, Parlano Software, NASA, and Hyatt Worldwide.

Ted Billups is well recognized in the Chicago design community and is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA). He has also served on the Junior Board of Directors at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a member of The Chicago Bar Foundation Board of Advisors.

Ted Billups attended Michigan State University and earned his BA in Advertising in 1994, with minors in mathematics and visual design. He received the American Marketing Association Outstanding Achievement Award for 2004, was the co-recipient of the 2006 Horizon Interactive Awards Bronze Medal for eCommerce, and, most recently, the prestigious W3 Awards 2006 Silver Medal for Online Fashion Retail.