November 21, 2005
Bob Goodman
Principal, at BobGoodman.Net, Inc.
Bob Goodman is a Boston-based UX professional whose consulting business offers a unique integrated model of consulting and creative services, including interaction design, information architecture, usability consulting, copywriting, brand building, and business strategy. Before launching his own business, Bob served as creative director at several leading interactive agencies in New England. As a usability consultant, Bob has run hundreds of usability labs. From these intense and sustained interactions with real-world users, he has extracted a unique set of principles and practices surrounding the user experience. At the core is his understanding of the ways in which a successful user experience flows from and undergirds smart business strategy and lasting brand value. Bob is a member of the UPA, IAI, and SIGCHI, and serves as Boston’s Local Ambassador for UXnet. He is a frequent awards show judge and speaker on UX, design, usability, and IA.
Bob writes about technology and culture on his blog, UXculture.
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Elizabeth Bacon
Liz discovered her calling in 1999, when she joined Cooper as an interaction designer. As a Cooper consultant, she performed ethnographic research, developed personas, and delivered innovative interaction design solutions. She worked on projects in a wide range of domains, from consumer-oriented Web sites to enterprise resource planning systems to blue-sky designs for office telephones. As a supervising/principal designer with a theoretical bent, she also helped advance Cooper’s methodology and practice. From 2002–2006, Liz worked in technology product planning at St. Jude Medical—a Fortune 100 company that develops implantable medical devices for cardiac rhythm management—where she led UX design for complex software systems. Her elegant yet friendly user experiences improved clinicians’ ability to provide good patient care. A resident of Portland, Oregon, Liz is the IxDA Local Coordinator and is active in CHIFOO (ACM SIGCHI). She is also on the IxDA Board of Directors.
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November 03, 2005
Dirk Knemeyer
Founding Principal,
at Involution Studios LLC
Dirk is a catalyst for developing new ideas and inspiring people and groups to create meaningful change. His contributions to the business and design communities are myriad. He has participated on seven different Boards of Directors for companies, industry organizations, and design publications. He has been a keynote speaker and given presentations all around the world and has published over 100 articles on business and design topics. At Involution Studios, a digital product design firm in Silicon Valley, Dirk is responsible for the business success of the company. His diverse professional background includes time as a management consultant, advertising executive, and design director. Dirk is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID), the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Center for Brand Experience, and the Executive Council of the User Experience Network (UXnet).
Read Dirk’s blog at www.knemeyer.com.
Column on UXmatters: “Imagine—A space for seeing the world in a different way”
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Luke Wroblewski
Principal, at LukeW Interface Designs
Currently a Principal Designer on the Search team at Yahoo!, Luke is also Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, a user experience design consulting firm he founded in 1996. Luke has authored a book on Web interface design principles, Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (Wiley & Sons, 2002) and many articles on interface design. Previously, Luke was a Lead User Interface Designer at eBay, where he led user experience strategies for eBay Europe and the eBay Platform. He also worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), birthplace of the first popular graphical web browser, NCSA Mosaic, and taught interface design courses in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Luke has presented his research on Web-based interface design at national and international conferences. He is on the Board of Directors of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
Read Luke’s Webzine/blog, Functioning Form.
Column on UXmatters: “Communication Design—Musings from the merger of medium & message”
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Robert Reimann
Robert has spent the past 18 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, Web portals, desktop productivity software, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, wireless and handheld devices, kiosks, and consumer electronics for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Joining Cooper in 1996, Robert played a key role in the development and refinement of their goal-directed design methods, including personas and scenario-based design. He has lectured on these methods at major universities and to international industry audiences. Robert is President and on the Board of Directors of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), a past member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD), and co-author, with Alan Cooper, of About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design.
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Whitney Quesenbery
Principal Consultant, at Whitney Interactive Design, LLC
Whitney is a user interface designer and usability specialist with a passion for clear communication. As the principal consultant for Whitney Interactive Design, she works with companies around the world to develop usable Web sites and applications. Formerly a principal at Cognetics Corporation, she was the design leader for many design and usability projects. Her project credits include work with companies such as Novartis, Deloitte Consulting, Lucent, McGraw-Hill, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, and Dow Jones. While at Cognetics, she was one of the developers of LUCID (Logical User-Centered Interaction Design), which promotes the importance of a user-centered approach and usability in design. Whitney is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, including UPA, ACM SIGCHI, STC, tekom, and the IA Summit Winwriters. She is the President of UPA (Usability Professionals' Association), Past-Manager and Web Manager for the STC Usability SIG, and a member of the Executive Committee for UXnet. Whitney is also the Director of the UPA Voting and Usability Project and is on the US Elections Assistance Commission's guidelines development committee, where she works to ensure the usability of voting systems.
Column on UXmatters: “Universal Usability—Putting people at the center of design”
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Pabini Gabriel-Petit
Principal User Experience Architect, at Spirit Softworks LLC
Founder of Spirit Softworks, a Silicon Valley user experience strategy and design consultancy, Pabini has over 15 years of experience designing digital products. She is highly skilled in interaction design, information architecture, and visual interface design and has designed innovative desktop and Web applications in product domains that encompass authoring, hypertext, collaboration, and networking and communications. Past clients include Cisco Systems, Tellme Networks, WebEx Communications, Chemdex, Whistle Communications, Kaleida Labs, Apple Computer, and Ashton-Tate. Formerly User Experience Manager at WebEx, Pabini designed Web applications for online meetings, training sessions, seminars, and remote collaboration, including the award-winning Meeting Center and Training Center. Pabini is an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and IxDA Local Coordinator for Silicon Valley, Co-Chair of BayDUX, UXnet Local Ambassador for Silicon Valley, BayCHI IxD BOF (Birds of a Feather) Leader, and a former Interactions Editorial Board Member.
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Dan Brown
Dan has practiced information architecture and user experience design since 1994. Through his consulting work in both the public and private sectors, Dan has improved enterprise communications for both Federal and Fortune 500 clients, including The Federal Communications Commission, The Postal Service, US Airways, Fannie Mae, First USA, British Telecom, Special Olympics, AOL, and the World Bank. Dan has taught classes at Duke, Georgetown, and American Universities. He is a popular speaker and writer on topics relating to information architecture. Most recently, Dan taught a pre-conference tutorial at the 2005 IA Summit on using Microsoft Visio. He is very active in the local Washington, DC, information architecture community and organizes regular workshops there. In 2002, Dan collaborated with information architects around the world to establish the Information Architecture Institute, the first professional organization dedicated to the craft.
Read Dan’s blog at www.greenonions.com.
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