Markiyan Matsekh
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Tom Schneider
Tom Schneider is a former VP of The Usability Professionals Association (Philadelphia) and the UX Partner of UX&ART (www.uxandart.com). He is the creator of UserXman; the user experience super-hero, and is currently working on a new book, UX Alchemy: Transformational UX Design. Tom studied philosophy and painting before he was hired at Boeing as an artist. There he was tasked with designing Boeing's first corporate intranet. He helped establish some of the first information architecture best practices used in Web design and continued as a Art Director, Web Designer, and user experience advocate. He has spent the past 12-plus years in the advertising industry serving clients in aerospace, transportation, hospitality, B2B, healthcare, and consumer products. While at Rosetta he helped standardize the practice of Program Architecture and experience design while focusing on personalized experiences and designing experience programs to drive users through the marketing continuum of awareness, engagement, conversion, loyalty, and advocacy. Tom spent a year in Moscow where he wrote the first of several screenplays and recently has undertaken songwriting much to the dismay of his kids; Mack, Ava, and Lydia.
Will Hacker
Will Hacker is a Manager of Interaction Design at Cars.com, where he leads a team responsible for experience design and usability for a portfolio of consumer- facing automotive shopping, research, and financing products. Will is the author of Mobile Prototyping With Axure 7, and his work has appeared in Boxes and Arrows, Mobile Commerce Daily, Smashing Magazine, UX Booth, UX Magazine, and UXmatters. You can follow his tweets at @willhacker or visit his website at willhacker.net.
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.
Mary Jean Babic
Mary Jean really enjoys drawing on her journalism and writing background to help tell the Rosenfeld Media story. After graduating from Northwestern University, she was a daily newspaper reporter in Michigan for six years. After that, she embarked on a life of fiction and freelance writing, earning master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Warren Wilson College. She's a frequent contributor to university publications, counting Michigan, Columbia, and Cornell among her clients. Her short fiction has appeared in the literary journals The Missouri Review and The Iowa Review.
Tracy Brown
Tracy started as a digital designer in London during the late 90's. "It was a great time to start because you had to do so much: graphic design, front end development, content development, Information Architecture etc. The methodologies weren't formalised, and mostly we just had to take chances and figure stuff out as we went. Good old trial and error!" Since then she has worked within agencies, corporate institutions, charities and with small business owners, picking up rich information about users and stakeholders, the creative process and the not so creative process. Her relatively diverse background in creative direction, visual design and front end development makes her a (proud) generalist. "Sometimes I get to work with specialists, working to create intuitive, elegant interfaces and experiences that a business can be proud of and that their customers can enjoy. I help enterprises of all varieties to think about how to create experiences that are useful to their customers before they attempt to make them usable. I am always looking for different tools and methods, with the main aim of helping people to get to the crux."
Hunter Whitney
Hunter Whitney is a consultant, author, and instructor who brings a distinct UX design perspective to data visualization. He has advised corporations, start-ups, government agencies, and NGOs to achieve their goals through a thoughtful, strategic design approach to digital products and services. Hunter is the author of "Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data”. He was also asked to contribute a chapter in the book, “Designing for Emerging Technologies: UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things”. Additionally, Hunter has written numerous articles covering a range of subjects for various online and print publications including UX Magazine.
Alex Demichev
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Corey Stern
Corey Stern is a User Experience Designer at The Nerdery with over 15 years experience creating engaging interactive media for agency, startup, and Fortune 500 clients. His areas of expertise include user experience, strategy, user-centered design, user engagement, interactive design, web/mobile design and visual design. Corey graduated from Academy College in Minneapolis, Minnesota with an Associates Degree in Multimedia and Graphic Design. Follow Corey on Twitter.
Markiyan Matsekh
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Poornima Vijayashanker
Poornima was as a founding engineer at Mint.com. After Mint was acquired by Intuit, she decided it was time to go from being a founding engineer to a founder! She started BizeeBee, out of a passion for yoga, which grew out of a 6 year practice. BizeeBee helps fitness businesses with customer management, and currently services private instructors and studios around the country. She is also the founder of Femgineer, a business that helps tech professionals and entrepreneurs, especially women, level up their careers.
Chris Bank
Chris Bank is the growth lead at UXPin. He also led growth at Lettuce (acquired by Intuit), MyFit (acquired by Naviance), and his own startup Epostmarks (USPS strategic partner), and launched Kaggle in the B2B tech vertical. Visit his website, follow him on Twitter and check out UXPin.
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.
Rich Berkman is an associate partner in IBM Interactive Experience where he works with clients on delivering IBM Design Thinking approaches to user experience strategy, design and development engagements for their interactive channels. Follow him on Twitter @RichBerk.
Jon Kolko
Jon Kolko is Vice President of Consumer Design at Blackboard; he joined Blackboard with the acquisition of MyEdu, a startup focused on helping students succeed in college and get jobs. Jon is also the Founder and Director of Austin Center for Design. His work focuses on bringing the power of design to social enterprises, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. He has worked extensively with both startups and Fortune 500 companies, and he's most interested in humanizing educational technology. Jon has previously held positions of Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv, a venture accelerator in Austin, Texas, and both Principal Designer and Associate Creative Director at frog design, a global innovation firm. He has been a Professor of Interaction and Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he was instrumental in building both the Interaction and Industrial Design undergraduate and graduate programs. Jon has also held the role of Director for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), and Editor-in-Chief of interactions magazine, published by the ACM. He is regularly asked to participate in high-profile conferences and judged design events, including the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Design Studies of Monterrey, in Mexico, and Malmö University, in Sweden. Jon is the author of three books: Thoughts on Interaction Design, published by Morgan Kaufmann, Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis, published by Oxford University Press, and Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving, published by Austin Center for Design. His fourth book, Well Designed: How to use Empathy to Create Products People Love will be published by Harvard Business Review Press in November, 2014.
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.
Josh Tyson
Josh Tyson is the co-author of the first bestselling book about conversational AI, Age of Invisible Machines. He is also the Director of Creative Content at OneReach.ai and co-host of both the Invisible Machines and N9K podcasts. His writing has appeared in numerous publications over the years, including Chicago Reader, Fast Company, FLAUNT, The New York Times, Observer, SLAP, Stop Smiling, Thrasher, and Westword.
Anthony Franco
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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.
Andres Bohorquez
Andres Bohorquez is a Senior User Experience Designer and Strategist. He has strong roots in UX, visual design, advertising, business and branding. His secret passion is photography and you can follow his work at bohorquez.org
Joseph Dickerson
Joseph Dickerson is a writer, technologist, and user experience lead who specializes in "next-gen" experiences and products. A designer of multiple mobile and Internet applications, he has worked to make technology easier and better fo users for over a decade. The author of several books, including a primer on user experience design, Experience Matters, Dickerson is a regular contributor to many websites as well as editor of This Week in UX, This Week in Geek and The Twin Peaks Gazette. He recently completed his second book on UX, UX 101.
Joe Harrison
Joe is a London-based Lead Designer currently working for Great Fridays, a Product and Service design agency. He's worked on a wide range of projects for clients including Pearson, Capita, MasterCard and Nokia. In addition to designing websites and apps, Joe has a talent for iconography, and has been commissioned to create icons sets for clients such as Harrods and The Atlantic Magazine. More recently he's designed and built responsiveicons.co.uk and responsivelogos.co.uk, projects that explore new and innovative ways to display scalable design elements on the web.
Chris Harrison
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Zack Rutherford
Zack Rutherford is a freelance copywriter, with an invested interest in UX and web design. A combat sports enthusiast and poetic soul, Zack endeavors to create beauty through syntax, sentence structure, and the liberal use of hyperbole. Follow him on Twitter (@zack_rutherford) or visit his website (Zackrex.com) to read all of his innermost thoughts.
Lin Wang
Lin Wang is a full-stack designer and front-end development enthusiast who is passionate about technology. She loves creating user expereinces that make people's lives more enjoyable. She lives in San Francisco.
Jeremiah Still
Jeremiah Still earned a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Iowa State University. Since that time, he helped create and direct the first Human Factors graduate program in Missouri. In recognition of his accomplishments with the graduate program, Jeremiah received the Liberal Arts and Sciences Council of Chairpersons award. Also, his scholarly work has appeared in top-tier journals, which resulted in recognition at the university level. Jeremiah is the principle investigator of the Psychology of Design (PoD) Laboratory. His team completes research at the intersection of product design and cognitive psychology. The PoD lab is currently investigating three lines of research revolving around: improving intuitive design, facilitating usable Cyber Security, and making complex interfaces easier to search. Jeremiah is currently an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Psychology. He regularity contributes to the CyberSecurity Center and the Human Factors graduate program. He enjoys teaching the Human-Centered Design process at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Notably, his students are consistently competitive at international design competitions.
Mary Still
Mary Still is a cognitive psychologist with broad interests in mental representations, attentional guidance, and research methodology. At the intersection of these areas is her interest in understanding the factors that contribute to intuitive interactions. Mary earned her PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Iowa State University and teaches at San José State University. When she is not in the classroom, she enjoys designing new experiments, cycling, and hiking.
Jarad Bell
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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.
Sarah Bloomer
Sarah Bloomer has been working in the UX field for about 20 years, establishing companies in Australia and the United States. Currently, she runs her own consultancy, providing design facilitation, customer experience research and interaction design. She also works with UX teams, helping with set-up, training, mentoring, and coaching.
Alexandra Stevens
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Marc Cajolet
Marc Cajolet has worked as an interaction design manager and UX strategist for 10 years at Kronos Incorporated.
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.
Marc Scibelli
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Doug Hopkins is a user experience director at Isobar, leading and directing user experience design, research, design validation and design strategy efforts for large, Fortune 500 client engagements. With 23 years of experience in digital product design and development, Doug is a highly seasoned resource who has led efforts in numerous industries and contexts—web marketing, ecommerce, large scale B2B systems, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and much more.
Doug’s focus in recent years has been in deeply transactional, large scale distributed experiences that are multi-channel/multi-form factor, incorporating adaptive/ responsive design approaches and methodologies. Prior to joining Isobar, Doug led all user research and testing efforts at Rosetta Marketing, managing a state of the art testing/research center and a dedicated testing team.
Jonathan Courtney is a UX designer and Product Strategist. He runs the cheeky UX design blog UX Messiah. Originally from Ireland, Jonathan moved to Berlin and founded the UX Design agency AJ&Smart in 2011. 3 years later, AJ&Smart now works with everyone from the Fortune 500 to the smallest startups, helping them create great products and to innovate. Jonathan also has a creepy, unhealthy obsession with Pierce Brosnan which requires no explanation. Follow him on twitter: @Jicecream.
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.
Chad Vavra is a Director of User Experience at Rosetta. Chad's 15 years of experience in digital media spans design, development, strategy, and operations across a variety of industry verticals which benefits his ability to design holistic digital solutions.
Pallavi owns programs for UX and performance enabling on all Intel consumer devices for worldwide OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) where she defines and drives product strategy and execution for UX, power and performance on Intel Architecture. She is reputed as an industry expert, speaker, author, and mentor in platform power and thermal management, user experience evaluations and enrichment, benchmark and performance analysis, and competitive analysis for mobile technologies, SOC & OS architectures. Her primary product focus includes connected devices, tablets, smartphones, 2 in 1s, consumer wearables and internet of things.
Since 2014 she is an advisor to ManoraLabs a cloud consulting startup based out of Silicon Valley.
She has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University. She also currently serves as the Director, Social Media for Saratoga Village Development Council and the Commissioner for Parks and Recreation for the City of Saratoga, CA
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.
Russell Blanchard
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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.
Will Towler
Will Towler is an analytics and insights consultant working out of Seattle.
Lin Wang
Lin Wang is a full-stack designer and front-end development enthusiast who is passionate about technology. She loves creating user expereinces that make people's lives more enjoyable. She lives in San Francisco.
Zack Naylor
Zack Naylor is a design and product person with over 10 years of experience across nearly every industry and company size. His passion is helping people use customer feedback and user research to make the best design and product decisions they can. His biggest passion in design is to help people solve the right problems for their company and their customers. Zack is co-founder and CEO of Aurelius, the user research and insights platform for design and product teams.
Nick Shim (@nim342) is a researcher and engineer from Sago Sago Toys, working on titles such as Sago Mini Pet Cafe and Monsters. He holds a M.Sc. in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Toronto and leads Sago's research with kids and parents. Nick is an experienced usability tester who has worked with gamers as young as 2 and as seasoned as 86. Prior to joining Sago he worked at Electronic Arts as a software engineer, developing console games for the NBA Live and FIFA franchises.
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.
Saskia Schippers is a UX consultant and researcher working for User Intelligence, where she explores user needs and behaviour to support the development of user-centered design solutions. She places high demands on the quality of research projects and the analysis of results. Saskia likes to travel to distant places to immerse in foreign cultures. In a typical weekend she likes to go for a run, go to a concert and enjoy some good food.
Meike Mak is a user researcher at User Intelligence, exploring user needs and behaviour to support the development of user-centered design solutions. She gained experience with qualitative research methods and techniques like interviewing, conducting focus groups, and inhome visits as a researcher at Blauw Research. In her spare time Meike likes to be outside walking, hiking or gardening, make clothes or furniture and play squash.
Shlomo "Mo" Goltz is an interaction designer and user researcher at Hearsay Social. Here he crafts experiences that enable those in the financial sector to develop, maintain, and enrich relationships with customers via social media. Shlomo combines qualitative and quantitative research-based methodologies to inform his design process, with a focus on creating enterprise software that feels as delightful to use as consumer products.
Mick is CEO and co-founder of EchoUser. He is driven to improve human experience wherever possible. Before EchoUser Mick worked for 15 years advancing user testing and design methods, creating UI Standards, and defining corporate usability benchmarking processes. He is expanding his Any Experience philosophy at EchoUser to innovate experiences for users and customers, whoever they may be and whatever they may be doing.
Cory Lebson
Cory Lebson (@corylebson), author of The UX Careers Handbook (CRC Press, 2016), has been a user experience consultant for over 20 years. He is the Principal and Owner of Lebsontech LLC, a successful user experience consulting firm he established in 1997. Lebsontech is focused on user research and evaluation, user experience strategy, UX training, and mentoring. Cory also speaks frequently on topics related to UX career development, user experience, user research, information architecture, and accessibility. He has been featured on the radio and in addition to his recent book, has published a number of articles in a variety of professional publications. Cory has an MBA in marketing and technology management, as well as an MA in sociology and a BS in psychology. Cory is a past president of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International and is also a past president of the UXPA DC Chapter.
Avi (@xgmedia) is the owner of IoT News Network, an independent resource for the Internet of Things. He is a longtime interactive and web design professional with thirteen years of experience. The author of Design-It-Yourself: Web Sites (Rockport Publishers, 2003), Avi has published several articles about user experience, he is an avid enthusiast of technology and is often invited to speak about emerging design and UX trends. Avi is currently working as an Independent UI/UX Consultant at his studio, XG Media.
Debra Levin Gelman
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