Tory Paez
A believer that we can address the world's greatest problems through business principles, Tory is currently serving in the Peace Corps as a Community Economic Development volunteer. She is utilizing human-centered design techniques to support workforce development and economic infrastructure in Costa Rica. Previously, she worked as a Senior Consultant within Customer Experience for West Monroe Partners for nearly four years. At West Monroe, Tory was specifically focused on Voice of the Customer solutions, harnessing the power of customer insights to enhance digital and UX experiences. Tory is an experienced runner, a novice yogi, and a bit of a bookworm. Her weakness are fries and al pastor tacos.
Carylyne Chan
I'm a co-founder of KeyReply, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot-as-a-service for midmarket and enterprise clients in the hospitality, ecommerce and software space. I work on product, design, marketing, data crunching and front-end (though my job scope sometimes changes day-to-day.) I have built and launched products at companies such as 3M, American Express, AGT International, and strategy + account management at DDB, among others. I'd love to talk to you, so get in touch!
Rhys Lloyd
Rhys is a Co-Founder of FirstyLondon, an online ordering platform and customer analytics tool serving the hospitality industry.
Rhys' expertise lies in business development, digital marketing, and operations management. Having led successful partnerships with UK based restaurants and bars, he has gained experience overcoming a variety of challenges facing the hospitality industry. Rhys is interested in empowering businesses to improve customer experience through innovation and business & cultural transformation. A foodie at heart, he has spent time abroad as a sous-chef in a French hotel.
Chris Calabrese
Chris Calabrese is a Senior User Experience Designer at Cooper. He is passionate about transforming complex interfaces into practical, user-friendly experiences for devices of all shapes and sizes. @ChrisACalabrese
Ori Takemura
A Ux Design Director at MullenLowe Profero, for over a decade Ori has been focused on bridging the gap between the human condition and digital interactions. Ori helps leading global brands bring meaningful, human centered products to the market. He is also a founder of an interaction design & game studio QIXEN-P. Based in Singapore he is best reached via Twitter and LinkedIn.
Luke is a designer who goes by the alias of WeLoveNoise. He approaches design by fusing design & technology to create captivating and thoughtful experiences across multiple forms of communication – digital, analogue and environmental for brands such as Pepsi, Playstation, Google, BBC and AT&T.
WeLoveNoise.com is the creative outlet of his projects, private commissions & design experiments.
Mark Hicks
Mark is a Chartered Psychologist and systems thinker. He has worked in complex system, service and digital product design for 25 years across multiple sectors. Now increasingly focused on finance, but interested in many things.
Dashiel Neimark
My name is Dash. Well, actually, it's Dashiel - but after gathering a life-long dataset of user feedback from an A/B test via the "introduce myself" task scenario, I've gained the summative insight that, in terms of satisfaction, effectiveness and efficiency (particularly the latter), it was necessary that Dashiel iterated into Dash. Although my friends and family would probably refer to me as a tennis burnout or table tennis enthusiast, in reality I am actually a User Experience Architect. I create usable, enjoyable digital experiences driven by a design thinking process and guided by the needs and desires of internal and external stakeholders. I draw upon my past experience in startups, freelancing, and consulting, as well as the wealth of user experience knowledge I have gained throughout my M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction and M.S. in Information Design & Strategy journeys. From concept to launch, I incorporate full-cycle UX tools & methodologies and am continually excited by future opportunities to play my part in delivering innovative digital solutions.
Pamela Pavliscak
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David Dominguez
David is a VP of User Experience in RBS. He has worked in design agencies, start-ups, businesses and corporations since 2007. Helping to evolve their experiences into multi-platform domains. David leads different design initiatives in RBS, guiding the design and implementation processes of UX in an agile environment. He also devotes his efforts to educating the organisation; guiding product managers and developers to think like a designer. Putting users in the center while balancing user and organisational needs.
Robert Berris
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Sara Wachter-Boettcher
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Eric A. Meyer
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Rashaud Brooks
Rashaud Brooks, ChannelNet’s UX/UI Director, is responsible for championing the strategy for user experience (UX) design disciplines across all new and existing client programs. Adept at directing the design of web interfaces, he knows how to cater to the needs of all stakeholders: corporate users and brand owners, dealers, retailers and end consumers. Design and color are his passions and he is known for his professionalism and high-level of creativity. He leads the implementation of solutions in collaboration with marketing, sales, and development as well as supervises, mentors and develops UX team members. A valued member of our management team, he also presents design concepts and solutions to current and prospective clients. He has led numerous multichannel solutions for some of the top brands in the world. He ensures user-centric design and website accessibility practices are applied to each project and platform. In addition to his ChannelNet experience, he previously worked for some of the top-tier agencies in the U.S. such as Campbell Ewald, Team Detroit and Enlighten. A graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta, Brooks is a passionate gamer and devotes his playing time to Madden Football, Magic: the Gathering, and Star Craft. He voluntarily puts gaming on pause to spend time every month teaching teens how to grow personally & spiritually. Brooks resides with his family in Allen Park, MI.
Q Manning
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Richard Trigg
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Mary Brodie
Mary has been designing and producing user experiences for over 15 years in the Web and mobile spaces. For the past 7 years of freelancing (her company name is Gearmark), she has become highly familiar with Agile methodologies and how UX fits into the process. Her projects range from creating visions to collaborating with her clients to make small, yet valuable, incremental changes that meet business or technology goals.
Leszek Zawadzki
Leszek Zawadzki is a founding partner at The Rectangles, UX design agency from Poland. His previous successful business venture was Chop-Chop, an extremely user-friendly web-development agency. Currently, as a user experience designer and consultant, he and his team work mainly with VCs, startups, SaaS, ecommerce and business owners. He also teaches UX design at The University of Wroclaw, where his main area of research and interest is human-centred approach to solving users’ and business’ problems.
Ryan Bateman
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UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.
Chase Buckley
I'm Chase Buckley, a UX Unicorn & Design Evangelist with over a decade of experience working on the bleeding-edge of future-focused innovations. For the past several years I've been heavily involved in the burgeoning Augmented & Virtual Reality scene, architecting the next-generation interfaces and experiences of tomorrow. In my spare time, which I can't say there's much of, I enjoy drinking coffee, tasting fine IPA's, studying up on UX trends, and exploring all that San Francisco has to offer! If you'd like to know more about me, my interests, or my work establishing the design conventions that will ultimately shape the technologies of the future, don't hesitate to add me on LinkedIn or Twitter!
Jake Cohn
Jake Cohn (@LeftEarpod) is the Founder & CEO of And Chill, a smart movie concierge in your messaging app. With roles at Google, WunWun and NimbleTV, he has cultivated a skill set based around providing the absolute best experience for customers. Sense is a reflection of that skill set. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in Economics.
Dmitri Khanine
Dmitri is a published author and frequent speaker at industry events. He loves to impress business users with six and seven figure savings by finding root causes and focusing project teams on solving the right problems quickly. At times not starting a project can be a wise and the most cost effective decision and Dmitri's User Research will provide hard facts to support the decision either way. Dmitri's 'secret sauce' is his ability to help organizations reduce the scope creep, costs and delivery times with better focused requirements and more efficient UIs.
Rian van der Merwe
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David Rhyne
I'm David Rhyne. Born, bred, and currently residing in Virginia, I'm a designer specializing in user experience (and, within that, visual design). I'm a boring, everyday guy who's pretty darn passionate about great design. I'm very particular about details and as such tend to be critical of design, including my own. Every once in a while, I create some cool things. When I'm not writing or scurrying around in Sketch or Photoshop, I'm enjoying photography, autocross, my family (29 nieces and nephews and counting), and trying to keep in shape. I like people. Since I like people, I don't like social media, though you can find me on Google+ once in a while. I love my Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amanda Linden
Amanda Linden is Head of Design at Asana. Prior to Asana, she was the Design Director for Intuit’s small business division. There, she led the redesign of Intuit Quickbooks, and also managed their payroll and payments experiences. She has also written the free e-book The Future of Enterprise UX with the collaborative design app UXPin.
Peter Eckert
Peter is regarded as one of the UI Design visionaries and best UX design leader by some of the top product companies in the world. As co-founder and chief creative officer of projekt202, Peter has helped many Fortune 500 companies to implement a meaningful UI design process into their organizations. He has directed efforts at projekt202 for SAP, Charles Schwab, PayPal, Sabre Airlines, Motorola, Dell, Microsoft, Agresso, Thomson Financials, Open Text, Buffalo Technologies, LeGrand, Logitech, Tektronix, Deloitte and many more. Peter co-founded projekt202 to build a unique environment that fosters creativity, provides a platform for innovation while delivering world class and award winning design solutions. During his five years at frog design, Peter directed efforts for SAP, i2 Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, Symantec, Halliburton, Hire.com and many other well-known companies. While studying in Germany, Peter was president of WATCH GMBH, a design firm he founded in Cologne, Germany. His client list included DaimlerChrysler, SMART, ZDF, Spiegel, the Swiss bank SBG, and a number of other prominent companies throughout Europe. A graduate of Köln International School of Design in Cologne, Germany, Peter also studied Design at Arizona State University and he holds a degree in electrical engineering.
John Gladding
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Tatyana Khamdamova
Tatyana Kahmdamova is the Director of Design at Blue Fountain Media, a full-service digital agency in NYC that specializes in website design and digital marketing. Tatyana is a creative professional with over 10 years of experience in art direction and interactive design at Blue Fountain Media. She approaches all projects with enthusiasm and a strong desire to create fresh, insightful, and relevant ideas. She has lead the planning and design on some of the most challenging projects, which have gone on to win numerous awards. Also a believer in a balanced lifestyle, Tatyana enjoys spending all of her weekends with family and friends.
Sean B. Walter is the Founder and Chief Design Officer at Cybric. Sean has spent the past 20 years specializing in enterprise and consumer interface design and user experience. During this time, Sean has helped grow eight technology startups from very early stage through multiple rounds of venture funding and multiple successful exits.
Prior to founding Cybric, Sean served as Chief Design Officer at CloudHealth Technologies where he led design and implementation of all consumer products, most notably the award-winning policy driven cloud management software.
Further, Sean was a founder and Chief UI Architect at Actifio, where he drove the UI paradigm that led to Actifio's “Radically Simple” theme and helped grow the company from three to more than 200 employees and over $200 million in venture investment.
Also, Sean held various UI architect positions at Verdasys (now Digital Guardian), Reprise Media, Phase Forward, Ask.com and Mothernature.com.
Sean holds a BSc. In C.I.S. from Bentley College.
Sean lives outside of Boston with his wife and daughter.
Nour Diab Yunes
Designer and entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience as a consultant in the design and tech industry, currently based in London. She founded Femmes Designers Ltd, which has grown to 15+ women since its launch in 2022. Femmes Designers is a creative community launched to inspire the next generation of makers while championing the work of artists, designers and scholars interested in how the contemporary arts and design interact with people, science and technology. Formerly, Nour worked as Service and Interaction Designer at Designit, Sapient and Fjord. Beyond project work, she is deeply passionate about the intersection between art, science and technology, where design can contribute not only aesthetically or within its field of practice, but can also contribute to various layers of daily life, such as to the evolution of behaviour practices, whether social or environmental. Instagram @femmesdesigners
John Boykin
John Boykin answers to user experience designer, information architect, interaction designer, information designer, and UX researcher. He’s been doing all of the above for over 10 years. Clients include Walmart, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, Blue Shield, Bank of America, Visa, Symantec, NBC, HP, Janus, Prosper, and Mitsubishi Motors. His site, wayfind.com, will tell you more than you want to know.
TECHVED
Techved is a leading “Global Usability & Design Company” in Southeast Asia. It was founded to bring the benefits of usability to the clients. Our approach is unique and we have a proven experience working with some prominent global companies. Our flagship “Usability Services” is best utilised which delivers the idea of user-friendliness in huge volumes. The services we offer covers web, mobile, applications and products as well.
Gigi Peccolo
Gigi Peccolo is the Associate Editor of UX Magazine, where she is focused on providing content to the UX Mag audience about designing great user experiences. Gigi received her BA in Journalism Studies and Spanish from the University of Denver, where she graduated with Distinction in Journalism Studies.
Tammy Guy
Tammy Guy is the founder of a visual design and usability consulting firm focused on strategic brand planning, creative direction and diffusion of user experience problems by applying design theory and usability best practices in a rapidly changing Web environment. Her firm provides consulting services (e-commerce solutions, mobile apps and tablet experience) to clients from various industries such as fashion retail, commodity retail, pharmaceutical, insurance, financial services, social networking and others. Services include product evaluation, strategy and planning, creative development and direction and usability consulting. With more then 16 years of experience, Tammy previously worked as the Creative Director at LivePerson, Inc. and was a Design Group Manager at the Hertz Corporation where she art-directed all aspects of graphical application development for all customer facing websites. In addition, Tammy has been a frequent guest speaker with the Nielsen Norman Group for the past few years, teaching visual design and usability workshops. She also teaches similar design and usability courses with General Assembly in New York City.
Lucy Barret
Lucy Barret is associated with HireWPGeeks Ltd., an HTML to WordPress Conversion Company. She works as a front end WordPress developer and handles a team of expert developers. She is also a blogger and loves to share her knowledge with the large community of WordPress. You can even follow her company, HireWPGeeks on Facebook.
Rosie Allabarton
Rosie Allabarton is a writer who lives in Berlin. Her writing specializes in technology, education, UX design and careers. She works as editor for the CareerFoundry blog. CareerFoundry is an online educational platform that provides training in web development, UX design and UI design, providing career changers with the skills they need to launch themselves onto the tech scene.
Lou Rosenfeld
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Jorge Arango
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Peter Morville
Peter is a pioneer of the fields of information architecture and user experience. His bestselling books include Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Intertwingled, Search Patterns, and Ambient Findability. He advises such clients as AT&T, Cisco, Harvard, IBM, Macy’s, Vodafone, the Library of Congress, and the National Cancer Institute. He has delivered conference keynotes and workshops in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work has been covered by Business Week, NPR, The Economist, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Knowsy. He blogs at intertwingled.org.
Vijay Sundaram
Hey there! I'm Vijay Sundaram, founder of Polka Dot Labs. We're a strategy, design and development studio focused on emerging technologies and new ventures. We're based in San Francisco and always up for opportunities to collaborate. Don't be shy about saying hi.
Gigi Peccolo
Gigi Peccolo is the Associate Editor of UX Magazine, where she is focused on providing content to the UX Mag audience about designing great user experiences. Gigi received her BA in Journalism Studies and Spanish from the University of Denver, where she graduated with Distinction in Journalism Studies.
Dan Ward
Dan Ward is the author of F.I.R.E.: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation (HarperBusiness, 2014) and The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide To Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (HarperBusiness, 2015). Prior to launching Dan Ward Consulting, he served for more than 20 years as an acquisition officer in the US Air Force, where he specialized in leading high-speed, low-cost technology development programs and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. For more information please visit thedanward.com and follow the author on Facebook and Twitter
Jennifer Aldrich
Jennifer Aldrich is a UX & Content Strategist at InVision and a UX Blogger at UserExperienceRocks.com. She's also a social media addict, a cartoon doodler, and an amateur photographer. She has had the opportunity to present at the UXPA International Conference, participate as a panelist in the AIGA Women's Leadership initiative, present at the 2013, 2014 & 2015 Web Conferences and has guest lectured at Millersville University. She also serves as a member of the National Program Advisory Committee for Independence University. Jennifer has had the opportunity to contribute to UXMag, Net Magazine, MediaShift, InVision Blog, and A Beautiful Site, among other publications. She is fascinated by the intersection of Psychology and UX, and loves having the opportunity to make the world a slightly better place each day, through design.
John Boykin
John Boykin answers to user experience designer, information architect, interaction designer, information designer, and UX researcher. He’s been doing all of the above for over 10 years. Clients include Walmart, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, Blue Shield, Bank of America, Visa, Symantec, NBC, HP, Janus, Prosper, and Mitsubishi Motors. His site, wayfind.com, will tell you more than you want to know.
Zack D
Zack is a software engineer at Autodesk, Inc.
Brian Pagán
Hi, I'm Brian Pagán, UX Coach & Founder of The Greatness Studio.
I use techniques from acting, psychology, & UX design to turn digital products into sustainable relationships.For over 16 years, I’ve designed everything from websites to digital strategy, award-winning mobile health apps, & blockchain services. Since 2015, I also perform in short films, commercials, & theatre productions. I believe our true superpowers come from where art and science meet, so my work combines the best of both worlds.
Jaykishan Panchal
Jaykishan Panchal is a content marketer at MoveoApps, a mobile apps design and development company. He enjoys writing about Technology, marketing & industry trends. He is tech enthusiast and love to explore new stuff. You can follow him on Twitter @jaypanchal8.
Egan Schulz
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Chuck Longanecker
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Pete Kinser
Pete is based in Denver, Colo. and is the Director of Experience Strategy at Universal Mind where he leads strategy, design, and research projects and teams. He works with leaders to help educate and encourage human-centered mindsets within organizations. Pete received a bachelor's degrees in Design and Psychology and a master's degree in Information Science from the University of Missouri. He is also a Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver where he teaches courses focused on design-thinking, user-centered design and customer experience. You can also reach Pete via Twitter @petekinser
Sarah Martin
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