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 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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 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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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.