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.
Brent Summers is a marketing strategist at Digital Telepathy who is passionate about data and design. With a background in project management and business analysis he strives to produce measurable results by focusing on resuts and helping to improve performance—of both his designs and his team.
Tony Albanese
Tony Albanese is a marketer, writer and design enthusiast in the Bay Area who has worked with a wide variety of companies (includeing UXPin and ZURB) and industries. He holds a master’s degree in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University and bachelors in Psychology and Communications from Temple University. You can visit his website maximumbeta.com for more information or to get in touch.
Adaptive Path is a ground-breaking consultancy that uses design to empower companies to create meaningful experiences with their products and services. Adaptive Path champions UX ideas through writing, speaking, and teaching, and gives designers the tools they need to create great experiences through public conferences and workshops. Adaptive Path has global reach but calls San Francisco and Austin home.
Marc Miquel
Marc Miquel is a User Engagement PhD researcher & Game Designer in Barcelona, Catalonia. He worked in the gambling industry as a user researcher and now curates darkpatterns.org with Harry Brignull in an effort to stamp out user interfaces designed to trick and improve the web. He also created the company Catalan Games to explain his Catalonia’s culture in a funny way.
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.
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.
Joe Macleod
Joe Macleod has been working on the issue of Closure Experiences for 15 years. Through his work in design, technology and services, he has detected a common pattern of denial at the end of the customer lifecycle. In the last couple of years this interest has led him to establish a research project based on sharing this insight and new approach with people via conferences, articles, teaching, projects and - now - a book. His 20-year professional career has been based across the leading web, telecoms and carrier companies, where he led teams and built a variety of successful products. Most recently as Head of Design at the award-winning digital product studio Ustwo, he built it into a globally recognised team, working with the world’s favourite brands on the most pioneering of products. In 2013 he founded the IncludeDesign campaign; this brought the UK’s leading designers together to champion creative education.
Nikki Knox
Nikki Knox is a Design + Education strategist at Cooper who draws from a diverse design background that includes architecture, interiors, product, and interaction design. She is committed to the design process and ways of working and thinking that reach beyond a specific deliverable.
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.
Rick Parrish is a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research serving Customer Experience Professionals. Learn more about his customer experience ecosystem research here (will be live on June 27). Follow him on Twitter @RickParrishGCX.
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.
Tutti Taygerly
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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.
Mike Bulajewski holds a Master’s degree from the University of Washington’s Human Centered Design & Engineering program and works as a UX designer and design technologist with experience in e-commerce, education, social media and collaboration software. His writing on the social, economic and political implications of technology has appeared in West Space Journal, The New Inquiry and Cyborgology.
Arijit Banerjee
Arijit Banerjee is a UI & UX Enthusiast. Although a power systems engineer by education, he has always found himself inclined toward the world of UX. He has been associated with several firms and has helped define experiences across a wide range of products. Apart from that, he's an avid user of Label.m products, a dog lover, and an out and out foodie with decent culinary skills.
I am the Co-Founder & Chief Storyteller at Lemonade in Summer, a design and communications agency based out of Bangalore, India. I love to write about Content Marketing, Design and UX. I blog here.
Russell Bongard lives and works in San Francisco. Do not try to contact him. He is an awful bore with terrible ideas. (He can be reached at [email protected].)
Jeroen is the original creator and co-founder of JW Player, an online video player used by million of websites around the globe. He currently heads the company's product efforts.
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.
Scott Hutcheson started working with website user experiences in 1998, before he really knew what they were. He continues to work on figuring out exactly what they are to this day. He’s written content and created user experiences for hundreds of websites including those for universities, major online auction websites, tourism destinations, ecommerce and music services. Scott sometimes dreams about information architecture and really enjoys talking about different taxonomy models. You should probably avoid him at parties. He’s currently the Director of Content Strategy for Paramore | The Digital Agency in Nashville.
Dorian is an author, tech designer and Creative Leader at the Wellbeing Technology Lab at the University of Sydney where she specialize in UX, IxD and UI design for learning and wellbeing. Her books include Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential (MIT Press), and Interface Design for Learning (New Riders). She enjoys plundering the smarts of philosophy and the social sciences to enrich design practice and rescues wombats in her spare time. You can find out more at her website: dorian-peters.com.
Sarah Doody is an NYC based user experience designer and product strategist. She works with startups to help them launch their initial product as well helping companies already in market optimize their user experiences.
Sarah publishes a popular UX newsletter, The UX Notebook. Sign up for free at: www.theuxnotebook.com
Sarah also teaching about user experience, she co-developed and taught General Assembly's first 12 week UX course. Sarah writes about user experience, design, and technology on her website, www.sarahdoody.com and can be reached on Twitter @sarahdoody.
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.
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.
Steven Hoober
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Shay Ben-Barak
Shay Ben-Barak (@ShayUXD) is a freelance experience strategist and senior usability expert. For the last 15 years he is leading projects from the early inventive stages of understanding the users' needs, throughout the process of concept design, to the detailed interaction design and visual design. He is experienced with mobile devices, legacy applications and web applications, and he was involved with development of consumers apps as well as complex systems (e.g. financial, medical, ERP and C4I systems) for professionals. Shay is also a UX mentor at the Google Campus TLV which is a pro bono publico activity of mentoring startups and entrepreneurs in their initial steps towards their very first UX prototype. Shay owns a master's degree (M.Sc.) in cognitive science from the Technion and his master thesis about Mental Models was published in chapter 5 in this book.
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
Nithin Rao is the President at Boston Technology Corporation, a custom mobile and Web application development firm. The role he truly relishes, however, is that of Chief Experience Officer. With expertise in interaction design and usability, his focus is on getting his team to deliver a winning user experience with every app. Every pixel matters and no detail is too small to him in his quest for creating apps, that users love coming back to.
Sergio Nouvel
Sergio Nouvel (@shesho) is a chilean-born designer, Director at Continuum Peru and entrepreneur. He has worked with big companies and small startups in Latin America, helping them building better digital products and innovative business models. He is also co-founder of Get on Board, a job board focused on tech professionals.
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.
Steve Tengler
Steve Tengler is a Senior Director with the Honeywell Connected Vehicle group, where he oversees a global team of engineers, data scientists and designers working on vehicle monitoring solutions such as cybersecurity, prognostics, etc. Steve is a proven expert in the field of the connectivity and user experience with over twenty-five years of experience on some of the country's top automotive teams, such as OnStar, Nissan, Ford and Honeywell.
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.
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.
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.
Rameet Chawla
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Toby Biddle is the Founder and CEO of Loop11, an online testing tool allowing individuals and companies to conduct unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface. He is also the Director of U1 Group (formerly UsabilityOne): a niche consulting firm with specialist skills that blend professional market research, usability and user centered design founded in 2001. You can learn more about online usability testing by checking out the free 7-video series, “Online Usability Testing 101.”
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.
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.
Paul Brooks (@okpaul) is the Global UX Design Authority for PRGX Inc. Paul previously worked at a digital marketing agency and as a freelance designer for PR agencies. He studied in London, France, and the US before moving into product management and user experience. He has three young children with his wife, Sarah, and lives in Essex, England.
Matt McManus a Director of Product Management at PBS. He looks after all of the PBS and PBS KIDS video streaming applications including PBS KIDS for iOS, PBS for iOS, PBS for Apple TV and multiple other applications scheduled for launch in 2014. Matt is a highly motivated digital media enthusiast who takes pride in delivering best-in-class products to the market from concept through commercialization.
Tyler Wells is a hospitable gentleman often mistaken for international supermodel Francois Verkerk. When introduced as co-founder of Handsome Coffee Roasters, most folks act equally impressed or, at the very least, nod and smile. Tyler’s career in the world of coffee started in 2005 at Progress Coffee, and then General Manager for Austin restaurant ‘Frank.’ From there he moved to Los Angeles to act as GM for Intelligentsia Pasadena before starting the Arts District based roasting works and coffee bar. It's since been acquired by Blue Bottle and Tyler is on to consulting, most recently with Blacktop Coffee. Prior to a life of coffee, Wells dabbled in many a trade from mechanic and bicycle messenger to classically trained chef. He’s happiest riding a bicycle on the open road or in the kitchen cooking for friends or pretty much anywhere in Pasadena. In his free time he cooks for and co-owns Buenos Buenos catering because he really likes cooking for people.
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.
Steve Tengler
Steve Tengler is a Senior Director with the Honeywell Connected Vehicle group, where he oversees a global team of engineers, data scientists and designers working on vehicle monitoring solutions such as cybersecurity, prognostics, etc. Steve is a proven expert in the field of the connectivity and user experience with over twenty-five years of experience on some of the country's top automotive teams, such as OnStar, Nissan, Ford and Honeywell.
Adrian Zumbrunnen is a user experience, UI, and web designer working at Information Architects (iA) in Zurich. He loves the Web, well formed type & transitional interfaces. In his free time he brews coffee and writes about UX design on his blog.
Jordan's been a freelance experience strategist for the past 5 years, working with organizations across North America. He's in the process of establishing Hostile Sheep, a boutique experience lab created to help organizations produce better digital products and services. He's worked with brands like Coke, Nike, BMW, Canadian Olympic Committee, HP, GE, Ford, Canadian Tire, Kraft, Telus, P&G and Diageo. He's worked with agencies like Critical Mass, Razorfish, W+K, TAXI, Trapeze, Ogilvy One, Proximity/BBDO, Cheil, JWT, and others. Follow Jordan on Twitter or connect with him on LinkedIn.
Heather Wydeven is an Associate UX Designer at The Nerdery in Minneapolis, MN. Her background in theatre and graphic design, combined with frustrating online experiences, drove her to discover user experience. Heather quickly developed a passion for making those experiences better for everyone, and in 2013 entered the field through the UX apprenticeship at The Nerdery.
Rima is a freelance user experience architect, designer and developer, and proud Minnesota native. She has worked with a variety of nonprofits and educational institutions and more recently as the UX/creative lead for pahaly.com, a Minneapolis start-up. Currently based in Nairobi, Rima is working on projects within East Africa and the Middle East, relishing the opportunity to be at the forefront of bringing UX best practices to these emerging markets.
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.
Gowri Penkar
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James Breeze has a Masters of Organizational Psychology and his goal is to improve people's lives through improved design and usability of things. He runs Objective Asia and Eye Tracking consultancy in Singapore and SE Asia. Objective Asia was set up in Feruary 2013 and is a subsidiary of Objective Digital, a UX consultancy in Sydney, Australia. An eye tracking evangelist, he is also a Tobii Eye Tracker partner in Asia Pacific.
Objective Asia is SE Asia's only customer research consultancy sepcialising in Eye Tracking to uncover people's conscious and unconscious experiences in online and mobile UX and Usability Testing. We work in Telecommunications, Banking and Finance, Travel, Government and many more industries. Objective Asia also apply these methods in Shopper Research and Market Research in retail and FMCG contexts.