Photo by Brian Wolfe (Oct 2020 at Crawford House, Newburgh).

Welcome to what was the professional website for my consulting business, Hoekema Design & Editorial (HDE) also known as Hoekema Interactive.

Now that I am retired from a 40-year career in interactive design (who thought that was even possible?), and heading for the exit, I've changed this into a retrospective account of my personal and professional life. Here's what you will find here:

• Designs - just the most interesing ones, at least to me.
• Writing - a mix of technical and more general-interest pieces, including 30 years' of holiday letters.
• Career - an excruciating account of my bizarre work history.
• Homes - the many places where I've lived.
• Families - my origin family plus marriages, relationships and such.
• Colin - a remembrance of my late son.
• Volunteer - local nonprofits for whom I have volunteered.
• Drawings - some feeble but earnest efforts over the years.
• Tunisia - recently scanned slides of my Tunisian "dig" in 1972.
• Nice Pix - some photos of outdoor scenes and buildings.

So, what's with this "All About Me" stuff, you may ask - is this some kind of vanity site? Well, yes, I suppose it is. It's been great fun to compile — I hope you find some of it interesing.

- Jim Hoekema

It turns out that the first and last significant events of my career are related! Here is a video of a 35-minute talk I gave at the Interaction 18 conference in Lyon in Feb 2018. The talk describes my very first interactive design project, which I led at the Office of Charles and Ray Eames in 1977-78. It's an interesting story, if I do say so myself.

For comments or just to stay in touch, email me at: jim@jimhoekema.com

Updated 2021-02-11