Designer · Director · Founder
AlexanderDavis
Twenty-five years of interface and experience design for games, from AAA studios to his own ventures. Founder of House Davis and Ultraevum.
Practice
Since 2000
Shipped titles
40+
Discipline
UI / UX
01 · About
Interfaces for millions of players. Institutions for one family.
Alexander Davis is a designer and director from Mercer County, Ohio. He taught himself C++ as a teenager, founded his first company, a web design and hosting business, while still in high school, and graduated from Wright State University as valedictorian of his class.
His career in the games industry spans more than forty shipped titles across franchises whose cumulative revenue exceeds three billion dollars. He specialized in the player-facing layer, the interface and experience design that decides how millions of people meet a product, and directed it at studios including High Moon, Vigil and Petroglyph before running his own consultancy for clients on four continents. Across the industry he is credited as Xander Davis.
Today he is the founder of House Davis, a family office, and of Ultraevum, the House's building arm, and a father of three sons.
02 · Work
A quarter century of shipping.
Interface and art direction at AAA studios; interface teams built under deadline; an independent studio that shipped its own game; a consultancy that served studios large and small.
2024 – 2025
HAVIK Solutions · UI/UX Director
2022 – 2023
AVALON · UI/UX Director
2017 – 2018
Astrogun · Founder
VAST — shipped on macOS, iOS and tvOS under his own studio.
2013 – 2019
Xander Davis & Associates · Principal
Design consultancy for studios and clients across four continents, 3D Realms and Illfonic among them; the practice has been dormant since.
2012 – 2013
Petroglyph Games · UI Director
Las Vegas.
2011 – 2012
Vigil Games · THQ · UI Director
Darksiders II — built the interface team from nothing in the last three months before ship.
2009 – 2010
High Moon Studios · Activision · UI Director & Art Director
Transformers: War for Cybertron.
2005 – 2009
Studio design roles · Interface & visual design
Indiana; the portfolio years before the AAA arc.
2000 – 2009
Atlas-Image · Founder
Web design and hosting for international clients, started in high school.
03 · Ventures
Built to be owned.
04 · Elsewhere
On the record.
Design yourself. Then design the future.
05 · Contact
office@davis.oneCorrespondence reaches Alexander through the House Davis office.