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Building a Solid Foundation for Efficient Design

[email protected] | Angela Craven
post authorAngela Craven

Angela Craven

Angela Craven is a Senior UX Designer at Slice of Lime. Working from a user-centered philosophy, she helps not only design, but also guide new solutions to user experience challenges that surface throughout user research, development and evaluation. She has worked on a number of projects ranging from software, to mobile applications, to content sources for a variety of clients including PepsiCo, Beringer Wines, MetLife, Novartis AG, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Weber Grills, Wells Fargo and ReadWriteThink (Verizon Thinkfinity). She is also an abstract painter, received her B.F.A. in painting at Colorado State University, and studied information architecture at New York University.

The Design for Experience Awards Site is Live

[email protected] | UX Magazine Staff
post authorUX Magazine Staff

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.

What Prevents Users from Making Better Financial Decisions?

[email protected] | Colleen Roller
post authorColleen Roller

Colleen Roller
Colleen Roller has over a decade of experience in making websites easy to use. One of her primary interests is in Decision Architecture - designing websites for user decision-making that increases customer satisfaction and achieves business objectives. She is a published writer on this topic, with articles appearing in UXmatters and the QRCA Views Magazine. She has also presented to corporate audiences such as Bank of America, Fidelity and VistaPrint, as well as for the Usability Professionals Association and as an invited speaker at Bentley University. She is forever fascinated with the workings of the human mind, and with the art and science of designing for it.

Usability Tip: One Main Call-to-Action Item Per Task

[email protected] | Tammy Guy
post authorTammy Guy

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.

Announcing Winners in the International Design for Experience Awards

[email protected] | UX Magazine Staff
post authorUX Magazine Staff

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.

QuickPanel: Women in Tech

[email protected] | Mary Jean Babic
post authorMary Jean Babic

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.

How Mature is Your Organization when it Comes to UX?

[email protected] | Juan Manuel Carraro
post authorJuan Manuel Carraro

Juan Manuel Carraro

Juan helps organizations and startups to build better products and provide services that delight customers in a profitable way for the business. He leads, trains and mentor teams to incorporate User Experience, Service Design and Design Thinking processes and technics through a Human-Centered and Agile approach. For the last 15 years he has worked for technology and service companies, entrepreneurs, consulting and interactive agencies developing projects in Latam and the United States. Juan is a lecturer, academic advisor and regular speaker at seminars and other related events on User Experience, Service Design, Design Thinking and Lean UX. 

He holds a Masters Degree in Economy and Business Administration from ESEADE, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. 

Five Tips for Letting Collaboration Fuel Innovation

[email protected], [email protected] | David McGaw, Zachary Jean Paradis
post authorDavid McGaw

David McGaw

David McGaw is Strategy Director at Embarcadero Partners, a San Francisco-based consulting firm. Working with an interdisciplinary team, he helps clients turn great ideas into cultures and practices that create value. His background includes corporate and innovation strategy, organizational transformation, project leadership, and business development roles at Monitor/Doblin (Chicago and San Francisco), gravitytank (Chicago), and McKinsey & Company (Washington, DC). Clients he has served include leading consumer electronics, computer hardware/software, consumer goods, and insurance companies; large private philanthropic foundations; and agencies of US federal and state governments. Prior to his work in innovation, he was a brand strategist at Alliant Studios, and a creative director at Cru, a global non-profit based in Orlando. David holds an undergraduate degree in History from Yale, and a Master of Design from the IIT Institute of Design, where he has taught graduate classes in project management and concept evaluation, and created the “Fostering Creativity” course. He currently teaches the “Leading Innovation” module in the Master of Business Innovation degree program at CEDIM in Monterrey, Mexico. He co-authored “And the Winner Is…”, a McKinsey & Company report on innovation and philanthropic prizes. Get in touch with David at mcgaw.net, or follow him on Twitter: @mcgaw.

post authorZachary Jean Paradis

Zachary Jean Paradis
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Internet of Things and the Work of the Hands

[email protected] | Thomas Wendt
post authorThomas Wendt

Thomas Wendt
Thomas Wendt is a consultant based in New York City, specializing in user research, experience strategy, product strategy, and innovation. Thomas is part theorist and part practitioner, firmly believing that theory and practice need to learn how to play nice if we’re ever going to be truly innovative. He comes from a background in psychology, philosophy, and literary studies—all of which have a strong influence on his design and strategic processes. He strives for a deep understanding of the relationship between people and technology, as this relationship is what shapes product design. He frequently teaches, writes, and speaks, on a variety of topics including intro UX, strategy, context-aware computing, philosophy and design, mobile UX, knowledge work, lean process and theory, and semiotics. His articles have been published in UX Magazine, Semionaut, UX Booth, and the Journal of Information Architecture (forthcoming). Presentations have been delivered both nationally and internationally at conferences such as Interaction 14 (forthcoming), LeanUX NYC, UX Cambridge, MidwestUX, FutureM, and a variety of smaller events in the NYC area. Thomas also teaches classes through General Assembly and independently for clients on topics such as Intro to UX, UX for Strategists, Research Methods, Design Thinking, and Product Ideation Methods. Thomas lives in the NoLita neighborhood of Manhattan in a tiny, modernist-by-default apartment with his lovely wife, Niki. In his spare time, he enjoys seeing how many books he can fit on his shelves and lusting after furniture he can't afford.

A Walk Down Front-End Development Lane

[email protected], [email protected] | Mike Germaine, Katie O'Reilly
post authorMike Germaine

Mike Germaine

Mike Germaine is Vice President of User Experience Development at Fidelity Investments in Boston. He has been with Fidelity for 18 years and was the Front-End Architect for Fidelity’s first Financial Institution web offering in 1996.

Mike graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1981 with a B.A. in Economics and began his career as a front-end developer with Republic Western Insurance in Phoenix. in 1983. He later took his talents to Hanover Insurance and Allmerica Financial from 1986 through 1995.

post authorKatie O'Reilly

Katie O'Reilly
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Usability Tip: Intuitive Design Clears Confusion

[email protected] | Tammy Guy
post authorTammy Guy

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.

How to Help Your Users Take Action

[email protected] | Stephen Wendel
post authorStephen Wendel

Stephen Wendel

Stephen Wendel is the Principal Scientist at HelloWallet, where he's worked for five years to develop applications that help users take control of their finances. He is a behavioral social scientist by training, and studies how technology can drive beneficial behavior change. Stephen is the co-founder of Action Design DC, an event series with over 1000 practitioners and researchers building products to help users take action via behavioral economic techniques. His recent book, Designing for Behavior Change, gives a step-by-step approach to applying behavioral economics to product development.

Social Networks can be More than Just a “Like”

[email protected] | Laith Ulaby
post authorLaith Ulaby

Laith Ulaby

Laith Ulaby is a User Experience Researcher at AnswerLab, a user experience research consultancy with offices in San Francisco and New York and Fortune 500 clients across the U.S. Over the last decade Laith has been immersed in the study of culture. He has conducted years of policy, academic, and user experience research on the power of communities and social networks. Starting his career as an academic at UCLA in ethnomusicology (the ethnographic study of music and popular culture) he has enjoyed his transition into applied research. Laith currently leads user research engagements for financial services, pharmaceutical, social media, and eCommerce clients across digital platforms.

The Game-Changing Nature of Beacons

[email protected] | Rit Mishra
post authorRit Mishra

Rit Mishra

Rit Mishra is a service design lead at Fjord, where he leads projects out of San Francisco office. Hailing from an interaction design background, Rit has extensive experience in designing playful. desirable, and rich user experiences for convergence-driven products and services. He has designed elegant and simple service solutions for clients including Adidas, PayPal, Nokia, Turkcell, Telefónica, Ericsson, Mattel, and Samsung.

Everything I Really Need to Know about User Experience I Learned in Sunday School

[email protected] | John Boykin
post authorJohn Boykin

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.

QuickPanel: Air Travel

[email protected] | Mary Jean Babic
post authorMary Jean Babic

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.

The Hubris and Humility of Opting In

[email protected] | Bryan Goodpaster
post authorBryan Goodpaster

Bryan Goodpaster
Bryan Goodpaster is a creative director at LPK, where he is often called upon for his non-traditional approach and strategic consultancy—helping crack wicked brand problems and strategic conundrums for many category-leading brands. Part semiotician, part psychologist, Bryan has known what you really meant by that for over 15 years.

Usability Tip: No Dead-Ends, Please

[email protected] | Tammy Guy
post authorTammy Guy

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.

UX the Bruce Lee Way

[email protected] | Joseph Dickerson
post authorJoseph Dickerson

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.

The Positive Impact of Good UX on Non-Profits

[email protected] | Danica Ralston
post authorDanica Ralston

Danica Ralston

Danica is a UX professional for pioneer Australian UX consultancy U1 Group. She is incredibly passionate about doing work that benefits people’s quality of life, and loves getting involved with projects that influence public policy. She is also extremely diligent when it comes to ethical user testing. With a background in market research, psychology, biology, international relations and political science, Danica enjoys continually growing her understanding of the psychological basis of behaviour, and exploring how people use and benefit from technology today. U1 Group is Australia’s one and only member of global UX network, UX Fellows.

Some Thoughts on Being Flat

[email protected] | Jessica Holt-Carr
post authorJessica Holt-Carr

Jessica Holt-Carr

Jessica is an Associate Director of User Experience with Hill Holliday in Boston and has expertise in interaction design and usability. She has experience designing with desktop, mobile, and product design, as well as performing user research. Jessica holds a Masters of Science degree in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University. The focus for her degree was mobile and gestural interfaces and meta-cognitive aspects of human factors and HCI. She also has a Bachelors of Arts degree in English with a Certification in Technical Writing and Professional Communication. Other agency work experience includes Isobar where she worked on award-winning projects.

QuickPanel: Digital Cocooning

[email protected] | Mary Jean Babic
post authorMary Jean Babic

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.

Combining Contextual Inquiry with Eye Tracking

[email protected] | James Breeze
post authorJames Breeze

James Breeze

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.

 

Usability Tip: Help Your Users Act

[email protected] | Tammy Guy
post authorTammy Guy

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.

Announcing the Drawing Ideas Contest Winners

[email protected], [email protected] | UX Magazine Staff, Mark Baskinger
post authorUX Magazine Staff

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.

post authorMark Baskinger

Mark Baskinger

Mark Baskinger is an associate professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University who teaches courses in industrial design with an emphasis on form & interaction. His interests include exploring new paradigms for interactive objects and interpretive environments, and methodologies of design drawing and visual thinking to promote collaboration. He has published papers and articles on the language of designed artifacts, inclusive/universal design, visual “noise” in product design, tangible interaction, and methodologies of visualization.

Baskinger currently serves as a researcher with the Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center through Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh; he is a core faculty member in the Master of Tangible Interaction Design program through Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture (mTID), is an affiliate faculty member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon and collaborates with the /d.search-labs at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands (TU/e).

An international speaker and workshop leader, Mark also conducts Drawing Ideas®: A Field Guide to Visual Thinking courses in conference and business contexts where he makes design drawing methods and visual thinking techniques accessible to a broader audience and demonstrates strategies for using sketching to foster collaboration in design processes. His work has been featured in design publications and international magazines, and has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), I-Space Gallery (Chicago), the Krannert Museum (Illinois) and the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery (Pittsburgh). His work is also included in the permanent art collection of the University of Illinois.

He has won numerous design awards from ID Magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDEA) and personally holds multiple product patents. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Baskinger was creative director at Corchia Woliner Rhoda in New York City, and was the lead designer at the Central Park Zoo - Exhibits and Graphic Arts Dept. He also held a visiting faculty position in the School of Art and Design (https://art.uiuc.edu) at the University of Illinois (UIUC). Parallel to his appointment at Carnegie Mellon, he co-directs The Letter Thirteen Design Agency, and is a founding member of the EcoDesigners Guild of Pittsburgh.

Native or Web-Based? Selecting the Right Approach for Your Mobile App

[email protected] | Michael Montecuollo
post authorMichael Montecuollo

Michael Montecuollo

The Director of User Experience & Design at DOOR3, Michael Montecuollo has been with the company since 2007. He is tasked with overseeing all enterprise, web, and mobile user experience work for the company.

Michael manages a staff of talented UX and visual designers in ensuring that DOOR3 builds solutions that are highly usable, easily adoptable, and up to the latest standards and best practices within their solution domain.

With a background in information technology, programming and development, Michael has a deep understanding on the inner workings of the solutions that his team designs and delivers.

Michael has played a critical role in the company's success including work for companies such as Bowne, Elizabeth Arden, Fresh Direct, HP, New Balance, and Teach For America. In addition to his project work, Michael also serves as a consultant to DOOR3's strategic partner, EMC, in their user experience and strategic digital endeavors.

Michael holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology and Informatics from Rutgers University and is a member of the New York City chapter of the Usability Professionals Association and Interaction Design Association. In his spare time, he enjoys sports, music, fishing, and spending time with his wife, Larissa.

QuickPanel: Google Buys Nest

[email protected] | Mary Jean Babic
post authorMary Jean Babic

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.

Off-Site UX: Making Content Distribution Work for You

[email protected] | Nick Switzer
post authorNick Switzer

Nick Switzer

 

Specializing in front-end development, Nick Switzer has been with Elevated Third, a Denver digital agency, since May of 2010, and is one of the leading information architects on the development team. He has over six years of experience in web development and design, with an expertise that runs the gamut of technology, arts and media. Nick’s favorite part of web development is taking creative initiative in transforming static designs into living, breathing websites. While he is skilled in a variety of web languages, Nick enjoys the complexity and flexibility of Drupal, and aspires to be a more effective part of the overall Drupal community.

Outside of work, Nick is always planning his next adventure and thrives off of all things outdoors including snowboarding and mountain biking.

 

Usability Tip: Don’t Make Me Search for Search

[email protected] | Tammy Guy
post authorTammy Guy

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.

Brain-Computer Interfaces: Interactions at the Speed of Thought

[email protected] | Hunter Whitney
post authorHunter Whitney

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.

From Superman to the Avengers: Rethinking Bruce Mau Design

[email protected] | Teresa Brazen
post authorTeresa Brazen

Teresa Brazen

As Design Education Strategist for Cooper, Teresa Brazen pulls from her experience across many disciplines (film, design, journalism) to inspire curriculum, teach, and build community. Her passion is teaching others how to cultivate healthy, inspired cultures within projects, teams and organizations—no matter what their role. Through her current work as a trainer (Cooper) and previous experience in program management (Adaptive Path), she's had the unique privilege of collaborating with, nurturing, and empowering teams from a broad range of industries: global financial institutions, Silicon Valley startups, and everything in-between. She also created and programs the Cooper Parlor event series, a monthly gathering of designers and design advocates to exchange ideas and push the potential for design.

In her free time, she also continue her work as an artist. In her short films and artwork, she explores how people navigate experiences like love, secrecy, and judgment. In her podcast series, she interviews people at the edges of industry and culture. She's obsessed with uncovering what makes people tick and exposing our shared humanity…in service of fostering a bit more empathy in the world. More about Teresa at TeresaBrazen.com and @TeresaBrazen.

The UX of Commercial Drones

[email protected] | Dan Saffer
post authorDan Saffer

Dan Saffer

The son of a plumber and a psychologist, Dan feels the interaction design he does is a little bit of both. Since 1995, he’s designed everything from websites to consumer electronics to robots. He feels that design isn’t only about problem solving, but about creating a better, more humane, future.

A Creative Director at Smart Design, Dan leads teams in creating new interaction paradigms across a wide range of products, spanning both digital and physical. Dan’s insightful, thoughtful approach to design has been captured in the four books he’s written—Designing for Interaction, Designing Gestural Interfaces, and Designing Devices. His latest book, Microinteractions, about the details of design, was published to much acclaim in 2013. You can follow him on Twitter at @odannyboy.

The Five Pillars of a Great UX Project

[email protected] | David Sachs
post authorDavid Sachs

David Sachs

David Sachs works as a UX Expert at Ci&T. With Ci&T since 2004, he has worked as a front-end designer, technical leader, creative supervisor, and creative director. His current focus is on creating software for mobile devices for global clients, including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Sprite, and MetLife. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s degree in design. Visit hisLinkedIn profile and his Twitter account.

Book Excerpt: Eye Tracking the User Experience

[email protected] | Aga Bojko
post authorAga Bojko

Aga Bojko

Aga Bojko is a UX researcher with a passion for designing studies to answer difficult design- and business-related questions. Currently, she is a VP of User Experience at GfK Custom Research North America, where she leads the Bay Area UX team.

Aga has over ten years of experience with various types of eye trackers that she has used to conduct UX research with software applications, websites, instructional material, pharmaceutical labels, and consumer product packaging. She's tracked (for a good reason) a wide range of visuals, from butterflies flying across the screen to fresh meat in grocery stores.

Aga holds a BS in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University, and an MS in Human Factors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Seven UX Resolutions for App Design in 2014

[email protected] | Drew Davidson
post authorDrew Davidson

Drew Davidson

Drew Davidson is the Vice President of Design at ÄKTA, a digital experience and engagement consultancy. Drew graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Psychology and a master's in Computer Technology, and his career has allowed him to bring his knowledge of the user experience field to companies across the country, including Nielsen, Motorola, eBay, and NASA. In 2006, Drew won Motorola's People's Choice Award for the best portrayal of a seamlessly mobile society, and in 2013, Business Insider named Drew one of the top 75 technology designers.

Win This Book! Drawing Ideas

[email protected] | UX Magazine Staff
post authorUX Magazine Staff

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.

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