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.
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.
Rishabh Dayal
Rishabh Dayal is a senior data expert for a leading global management consultancy. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies in insurance, retail and healthcare. He specializes in analyzing large data sets and deriving meaningful insights to drive decision making.
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.
Gil Remy
Gil Remy is an information architect and mobile GUI crusader at NYC digital agency, Blue Fountain Media, with an international background in Marketing and Project Management. He has over 13 years’ experience in taking projects from vision to completion through dynamic and effective team leadership and client management. He has worked for Grey Paris with clients including Nokia, BNP Paribas, and Honda and demonstrated his ability to identify, analyze and solve problems in order to increase customer satisfaction while maintaining a firm grasp of the company's constraints and goals. He is always eager to apply the right mix of no-nonsense approach, out-of-the-box thinking and diplomatic skills to every situation in order to get things done.
Nathan Barry
Nathan Barry is an interface designer and app developer who is passionate about designing software that is a joy to use. After leading the software design team at a startup in Boise, Idaho, where he lives, Nathan began working independently, designing and developing his own apps. He is the author of Designing Web Applications and he loves to travel. Follow him @nathanbarry on Twitter.
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.
Andrew Zusman
Andrew Zusman is a user experience designer at Inkod-Hypera and the creator of the 52 Designers project. Andrew is also the writer of a popular user experience design blog. He lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel with his girlfriend Natasha and their dog Indy.
Jessica Peterson
Jessica Peterson, Ph.D., has fifteen years of experience in cognitive science and user research. At AnswerLab, she has recently led UX research engagements in finance, insurance, retail, automotive, and logistics. She has a deep interest in international consumer markets, fueled by her work with clients in Europe and Latin America and exciting opportunities to conduct multilingual and international research. She loves that research allows her to interact with people from an astonishing cross-section of cultures, personalities, and attitudes. She’s passionate about women changing the world, especially through technology. Jessica received her doctorate in Linguistics with a specialization in Cognitive Science from Northwestern University. She graduated summa cum laude from Rice University with a B.A. in Linguistics.
Kerry is a vice president and principal analyst in Forrester's customer experience research practice and the co-author of Forrester's book, Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business. Follow her on Twitter: @kerrybodine.
Astrid Chow
Astrid Chow is a Senior User Experience Designer at Roundarch Isobar where she leads multidisciplinary teams with her experience in user experience design, information architecture, usability testing and research, content strategy and user-advocacy. With a background in graphic, interactive, and branding design, Astrid brings seven years in theadvertising agency world as a UX Designer and Graphic Designer for such clients as Adidas, Nokia, PROJECT(RED),TIAA-CREF and Cadillac. A graduate of Bentley University’s McCallum Graduate School, Astrid holds an MBA in Strategy and an MS in Human Factors in Information Design. Prior to her graduate studies, she studied Fine Art (concentrating in Installation Art and Art Criticism), English and Communication Design at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tania Lang
Tania Lang has been working as a user experience practitioner for a number of high profile clients since 1999. She is founder and principal of PeaXD, a UX Brisbane based consultancy, which she founded in 2003. She is proud to be called a UX Geek, is passionate about user experience and has been known to conduct ethnographic studies of users reading poorly designed toilet direction signs at airports. Tania is also a highly regarded and experienced trainer having delivered UX training to over 1200 participants both in Australia and Asia. She has also presented at several conferences including UX Australia. Tania has personally designed all training courses and interactive exercises. She enjoys sharing UX stories from the trenches and seeing participants gain the skills and confidence to apply in their workplace. She has a Masters of Business by Research which involved researching how travel consumers use the Internet. She also has a Bachelor of Science, Grad Dip in Arts (Tourism) and a Graduate Certificate in Human Factors. Specialties: User/customer research, UX design, customer journey mapping, usability testing, interaction design, information architecture, service design, UXtraining.
Tomer Sharon
Tomer is Head of User Experience at WeWork in New York City leading a team that designs work and living spaces, communities, and services around the world. Formerly a senior user experience researcher at Google Search, Tomer is the author of the book, “Validating Product Ideas through Lean User Research” (2016) and author of, “It’s Our Research: Getting stakeholder buy-in for user experience research projects” (2012). He founded and led The Israeli Chapter of the User Experience Professionals’ Association and has been preaching and teaching UX at Google’s LaunchPad program, a bootcamp for early-stage startups around the world, in conferences, and at Treehouseand General Assembly. Tomer holds a master’s degree in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley Universityin Waltham, MA. He is @tsharon on Twitter and Instagram.
Megan Grocki
Megan bakes the best brownies on the planet. The end. Actually, that's just the beginning. Sassy, smiling and straightforward, Megan’s a senior member of Mad*Pow’s experience design team. With over 15 years of experience in research and experience design, Megan specializes in helping clients discover the attitudes, intents and behaviors of their users and understand what is truly important to them. By being the ultimate user advocate, she is able to improve the organization and presentation of content and refine the messaging in a way that rings true with the audience(s) and meets business goals. She has worked with clients including Bank of America, Aetna, Constant Contact and McKesson to sharpen their understanding of their audiences and design new digital experiences steeped in rigorous research and design thinking. She has been able to flex her marketing strategy muscles, creating new brand identities and developing clear and meaningful strategies for evolving brands. Until recently, Megan was also the mastermind behind Mad*Pow’s marketing strategy. From evaluating market conditions to directing digital marketing and social media strategies, Megan guided the marketing direction for all our events and promotional activities while collaborating with sales to support them in generating maximum buzz. Now that she has passed the Marketing torch, she is happy to wear just one hat as Experience Design Director. Prior to Mad*Pow, Megan served as marketing manager with Momenta as well as senior product manager and user interface manager at Bottomline Technologies. Megan holds a BA from the University of New Hampshire and is always seeking to continue her education by attending conferences, seminars and reading her weight in UX books. She is a founding member of the NHUPA. Her speaking gigs have included Refresh Boston, the 2010 IA Summit in Phoenix, the 2010 Usability Professionals' Association International conference in Munich, 2010 UPA Boston and Interaction11 in Boulder. In addition she served as IxDA’s Interaction12 conference program director. A die-hard tennis fan, Megan enjoys traveling the world, splashing in the waves at her favorite local beach and coffee shop-hopping around town with her husband and two young children. Megan is on Twitter at @megangrocki.
Dave is a hands-on executive who has worked with start-ups and Fortune 500 experience, growning initiatives from scratch to create divisions and whole companies operating on four continents. He has a track record of successful strategic planning, business development, sales acceleration, marketing, and assembling high-performance teams. His strengths are in applying financial rigor and metrics to guide decision-making. He has an interest in transformative technologies and is the CEO of LumenVox.
Specialties
Business, channel and sales development, strategic negotiations, product and program management, global planning and operations, financial modeling, offshoring, call center sales and customer service, process improvement, widget and internet based applications, start-ups, German language fluency, spoken French, inter-cultural communication.
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.
Jason Gerard Clauss
Jason founded Clauss Concept, a UX and information visualization design consultancy, in 2011. Jason has previously designed UX for tech startups, and created historical archaeological and topographical maps for Harvard and University of California Press. Clauss Concept has worked with small startups, established web brands, and Microsoft vendors to design user interfaces, data dashboards, and analytic reports.
Brad Ty Nunnally
Brad is a lead user experience designer in St. Louis, MO. Over the course of his career he has helped clients in the financial, health care management, public utilities, and pharmaceutical management industries. He's provided them with deep insight into their customer and users needs, and designed engaging experiences that were catered directly for those needs. As a Lead User Experience Designer at Perficient XD, he has performed a variety of UX activities that allows him to build an empathic link to a variety of people that directly informs his work. These activities cover the full spectrum of research, modeling, design, and testing. He's facilitated various workshops with key business and technical stakeholders to craft a strategy to address the needs and problems that are identified during the workshops. Brad's passion in user experience is centered around the modeling of data gained from user research and the creation of interactive prototypes and wireframes. He has presented on these topics at a variety of conferences. He also helps coach and mentor others who are new, or soon-to-be-new, to the user experience field. Brad is also one of the co-authors of Designing The Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation When he's not working, writing, or presenting, he spends his free time playing with his son, Tristan. Tristan constantly reminds him not to take anything for granted and the best way to learn anything new is to get down and dirty with it.
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."
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.
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.
Joanna Lewis
A UX Designer at Objective Digital, Joanna once was a technical writer, providing user-friendly instructions for complex software. Then, to target usability head on, she moved into UX, making software less complex to begin with. She is highly recommended by clients for her ability to produce simple, user-focussed solutions in complex situations; and for bringing great knowledge, understanding and a creative eye to product design and business needs.
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.
Kevin Stakem
Kevin Stakem is an accomplished software systems architect and development manager of projects ranging from custom applications to Enterprise Web Content Management systems. His experience spans 17 years of application and website development which has centered on Internet and World Wide Web products and websites. Kevin’s diverse technical background ranges from Commercial Off-The-Shelf ("COTS") software products to Enterprise E-Commerce solutions and Enterprise Content Management systems. Kevin also excels at recruiting and retaining talent, as demonstrated by the successful teams of forward-thinking development staff he has assembled. In his current role as Technical Director, Kevin manages teams of development resources with expertise across a multitude of web-centric technologies. The primary focus of Kevin's group is on content management solutions and technology integration. He is continually expanding these areas of expertise to offer a broad range of strategy, consulting, development, and integration services. Kevin also brings a wealth of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and integrating technology solutions, and is instrumental in navigating technical hurdles, communicating technical expectations, and managing client communications on every project he is involved in. His abilities to understand a client’s business goals and help map those into technical solutions are keys to his project successes.
Andrew Wirtanen is a Lead Product Designer at Citrix in Raleigh, NC. He is an executive council member of the Triangle UXPA, and former president of the organization. He has experience with many usability engineering and interaction design methods. Prior to joining Citrix in 2013, he worked in consulting environments for six years. Andrew holds a master's degree in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University. He is @awirtanen on Twitter.
Colin Butler is a graduate of North Carolina State University with an MS in Human-Computer Interaction. He believes that the key to creating a good user experience is good communication and process, but a little cleverness has been known to make a good experience into a great one.
Ben Self
Ben Self is a UX Designer and Certified Usability Analyst at Asynchrony Solutions, where he conceptualizes and designs software for desktop, web, and mobile platforms. For more information, visit blog.asolutions.com.
Nick Cawthon
Nick Cawthon is a UX practitioner located in the San Francisco Bay Area. His focus has been interaction design, prototyping, and user research on desktop and mobile devices. He has written a book, Aesthetic and the Usability of Data Visualization, published during his time at the University of Sydney while pursing a graduate Human Computer Interaction research degree. Nick is also an event organizer for the local Interaction Designer's Association, where he co-ordinates monthly talks given by leaders within the industry. When not pushing pixels for his consultancy, Gauge Design, Nick enjoys rowing on the Oakland estuary before dawn and is constantly dreaming of new metaphors for the frustrations of corporate stagnation. Follow him on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.
Chris Griffith
Chris Griffith is a Staff Engineer in the User Experience group at Qualcomm. He has over 15 years experience in developing a wide range of prototypes for a variety of clients. He currently works with the full spectrum of the Flash Platform from mobile devices to web/desktop, as well as HTML/CSS/JS solutions. He is also an Adobe Community Professional and is presently the manager of the San Diego Flash User Group. He also has regularly been invited to speak at conferences such as Adobe MAX, 360Flex, D2WC, and various user groups. He also has been involved with the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library project. [Opinions and thoughts that are his own and are not necessarily shared by the company that he works for.]
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.
Astrid Chow
Astrid Chow is a Senior User Experience Designer at Roundarch Isobar where she leads multidisciplinary teams with her experience in user experience design, information architecture, usability testing and research, content strategy and user-advocacy. With a background in graphic, interactive, and branding design, Astrid brings seven years in theadvertising agency world as a UX Designer and Graphic Designer for such clients as Adidas, Nokia, PROJECT(RED),TIAA-CREF and Cadillac. A graduate of Bentley University’s McCallum Graduate School, Astrid holds an MBA in Strategy and an MS in Human Factors in Information Design. Prior to her graduate studies, she studied Fine Art (concentrating in Installation Art and Art Criticism), English and Communication Design at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ilana Westerman has for the past 15 years focused on helping bring people and technology together through seamless digital experiences. At Create with Context, Ilana leads strategic research and idea generation for global Fortune 500 companies.
Ilana also shares her passion for research-driven design as a part-time faculty member at San José State University, where she has taught graduate level courses in the Industrial Systems Engineering/HFES program since 2005.
Previously, Ilana performed strategic user research at Adobe, helping envision and define future products focused on digital youth and creativity.
Prior to that, Ilana joined Yahoo! in its infancy and helped build the User Experience Research team, managing Community, Cross-platform, Mobile, and Living Room experience teams. Her group defined the strategic direction of Yahoo! with projects including Future of the Internet (3, 5, 10 years out), Platform Convergence, Internet Everywhere, What Can Be with Yahoo! Mobile, and Global Yahoo! Platform.
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.
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.
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.
Olga Khroustaleva
Olga Khroustaleva leads the User Experience Research group at YouTube. Her team is tasked with improving the product experience for 800 million unique users who visit YouTube every month as well as YouTube's content providers and advertisers. Prior to joining YouTube, Olga was a researcher for the suite of Google's Geo products such as Google Maps and Google Earth. She joined Google after getting her Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan and brief stints working for the United Nations in Geneva and District Six Museum in Cape Town.
Tom Broxton
Tom Broxton leads the Monetization and Devices User Experience teams at YouTube, working to balance the needs of advertisers content creators and viewers through TrueView skippable ads and other formats. Previous achievements include the recently launched AdWords for video, the self serve tool for video advertisers on the Google Display Network and Insight, YouTube’s first generation video analytics tool. He’s studied viral videos extensively and co-authored a paper on their spread across social networks (Catching a Viral Video, 2010 IEEE SIASP@ICDM). Prior to YouTube Tom worked as a designer, consultant and creative lead in the UK with organisations such as the United Nations Development Program, local government bodies, Brandwatch and UpMyStreet.com, he was a key contributor to the early versions of the BBC News Online website.
Tim Todish has been working in the Web/RIA industry for more than 10 years. After cutting his teeth on HTML, ASP and SQL, he shifted his focus from back-end technologies to developing rich front-end experiences with early builds of Flex and AIR. Tim has a passion for using technology to create engaging user experiences across multiple devices.
From his years working closely with creatives and designers for companies including Meijer, Inc and Crowe, Tim has developed the unique ability to view both the technical and creative sides of any challenge. This has also honed his talent for bringing “techies” and “non-techies” together, fostering cross-cultural communication between the two.
Tim is currently working as a UX Designer for Maestro.
Jordan Julien
Jordan Julien is an independent consultant working in the Toronto area, specializing in experience strategy. He's worked with brands like Coke, Nike, BMW, Dove, Canadian Tire, Kraft, Telus, P&G, and Diageo. He's worked with agencies like Critical Mass, Razorfish, W+K, TAXI, Trapeze, Ogilvy One, and Capital C. You can follow Jordan on Twitter, or though his blog.
Dan Ross
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Gregory P. Care
Gregory P. Care is an attorney at the law firm Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP in Baltimore, Maryland where his practice includes disability rights. Brown, Goldstein & Levy was one of several firms that represented the plaintiffs in the National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp. class action lawsuit that resulted in a settlement to make Target.com accessible.
David Gillis
David Gillis is an Interaction Designer at Teehan+Lax, a Toronto-based
company that helps clients define and design great user experiences in
the digital channel. There, he's done award-winning information
architecture and design work for clients like AOL, AIR MILES, John
Hancock and Virgin Mobile. David's passion for interaction design has been informed by a wide
range of interests and experiences, both academic and professional. In
school, he took a multi-disciplinary approach, combining studies in
communication, cognitive science and systems design. He holds Bachelor
Degrees in Math and English, and a Masters Degree in Information
Systems and Knowledge Media Design. Areas of ongoing interest and investigation for David are
evidence-based design (how can designers strike a better balance
between intuition and formal inquiry), participatory design (how can
designers better engage their clients and end-users in collaborative
processes), and holistic design (how can we better design experiences
that span across multiple modes, touch points and platforms). David is a regular contributor on the Teehan+Lax blog and you can follow him on Twitter @davegillis.
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.
A creative technologist with a keen sense for design solutions that deliver on strategic objectives, David has close to two decades experience designing and producing digital products and services. Over the years, David has accumulated a strong track record of highly successful and innovative applications for some of the world’s most respected organizations. Clients have included Volkswagen, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Renault, Schweppes, Disney, Warner Music, Denny’s, HCA, Southwest Airlines, Verizon and Alcatel-Lucent. You can read more of David's thoughts on the Pull Media blog.
Jan Moorman
As principal design researcher for projekt202, Jan is responsible for both generative and evaluative user research. Figuring out how to answer design questions demands creativity and willingness to experiment with methods. Her passion for research lies in her fundamental belief that design research can lead to nonobvious insights. She pulls ideas from a diverse set of experiences and industries. Her background and work experience wander from science to art and back. She holds degrees in Fine Art and Computer Science. She has worked in analytical chemistry, software architecture, scientific visualization, performance support and interface design. She believes that the skill of research cannot be completely learned from textbooks and is excited about having the opportunity to mentor and coach students at Austin Center for Design.
With education and work experience in the fields of architecture and digital media, Eric Socolofsky has a versatile design sensibility that strongly influences his production as a developer, designer, and artist. Following an undergraduate education in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, Eric practiced architecture in Chicago for three years. His curiosity in digital and interactive media led him to NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program graduate school in New York.
Since receiving his Master’s degree, Eric has experimented with a variety of work, including web, game, and user interface design and programming, interactive and generative screen-based art, and interactive spatial installations. Following a fellowship in Eyebeam's Moving Image department, Eric designed and built the comic generation tool Quickcomic.com, led the development of Gamestar Mechanic with New York City-based GameLab, and taught at New York University and Pratt University. He is now a new media exhibit developer at San Francisco's Exploratorium.
Martin has spent the past six years in the requirements definition and management space, first as CTO of Blueprint Software and now as CEO of PowerStory. Prior to that, Martin held CTO positions in other startup’s starting in 2002. Martin also has extensive experience selling and delivering large system’s integration projects while working for EDS, Accenture, and Deloitte Consulting for the first 10 years of his career. Martin was also a founder of eMersion, which was an eBusiness Consulting company which was later sold to Deloitte Consulting.
Danny Bluestone
Danny is the Founder and CEO of Cyber-Duck, a leading full service digital agency. Inspired by fusing creative, technical, and marketing expertise into a superior user experience, he established the agency in 2005. Now, they work internationally with global brands including Cancer Research Technology, The EU, and Arsenal FC. Leading Cyber-Duck, Danny continues to refine their accredited design process, drawing on lean and agile management methodologies, alongside creative R&D. He enjoys sharing expertise with enterprise, UX, and technology communities, including the UKTI, UX London, and UXPA. His digital insights have been featured in UX Magazine, Econsultancy, and Smashing Magazine.
Mike Maass leads an all-star team of UX writers and editors at Citrix.
John Ferrara
John Ferrara has worked in in user experience design since 1999, designing interfaces for websites, desktop applications, and video games. Since 2006 he's been with Vanguard, and before that did significant work for Unisys and General Electric. He's been a forceful advocate for closer connections between UX and game design at the IA Summit, EuroIA, and Games for Health. He’s the author of the new book Playful Design: Creating Game Experiences in Everyday Interfaces, published by Rosenfeld Media. His nutrition education game Fitter Critters was a top prizewinner in the Apps For Healthy Kids contest, sponsored by Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign. Before entering the professional world, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in communications. Feel free to follow John on Twitter at @PlayfulDesign.
Doug Klein
Doug is an Associate Partner at Rosetta who has held leadership positions in marketing since 1995. A former Walt Disney Imagineer, he has worked in corporate marketing departments, traditional agencies and interactive agencies to build brands and integrate digital properties into cross-device multi-channel marketing campaigns that deliver breakthrough results. He is a frequent speaker, teacher and writer on the future of marketing, results-oriented enterprise marketing strategy, the interplay of digital marketing channels, customer lifecycle messaging, social media marketing, and enterprise analytics/optimization.
Christina Seong is a graduate student at the University of Washington working towards an M.S in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE). While interning at Blink Interactive, she studied Metro style and worked on the design of Windows 8 Apps. She is passionate about understanding users' needs by combining her love of design and her love of art within User Experience (UX), Graphic and Web design. Find her on twitter at @xteenz.
Valentina Ferrari is a user experience designer in Seattle, Washington. She has a BS in Informatics (Human Computer Interaction) from the University of Washington Information School, and is now pursuing a M.S. in Human Centered Design & Engineering. Valentina is originally from Milan, Italy, and has been living in the United States for 6 years. You can find her on twitter at @valeaseattle.
There's a surprising overlap of user advocacy in journalism and experience design; Dan hopes to bring his experience in both together and help the news industry expand and adapt. He has written for publications ranging from The New York Times and Salon to I.D. and Bicycle Guide, and is a graduate of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He occasionally puts things online at twoangstroms.com.