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Confirmed Speakers So Far

Below are the speakers confirmed so far for UX Week 2009. Check back regularly to see new additions!

elizabeth_windram250 Elizabeth is a senior user experience designer on Google Maps. She has also supported Google Web Search. Prior to Google, Elizabeth managed the website for the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago and designed websites for corporations such as Ford Motor Company, Hachette Filpacci, Sun Microsystems, and Bell and Howell.

Bernhard Seefeld

Bernhard Seefeld is the product manager for Google Maps. Prior to Google, Bernhard was the Lead Software Engineer at Endoxon AG, a Swiss mapping company that pioneered AJAX-based mapping and CTO and Co-founder of search.ch, one of the first local search engines.

Matias Duarte

matias-headshot_300 Matías Duarte is the Senior Director of Human Interface and User Experience at Palm. His team was responsible for all aspects of the user experience on the Palm Pre, the newest addition to Palm’s family of revolutionary mobile devices. Matías’ team continues to develop the design and user interface of Palm webOS, the next generation operating system from Palm…

Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones is a Tony Award winning playwright and performer. Her multi-character solo show Bridge & Tunnel was originally produced Off-Broadway by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and went on to become a critically acclaimed, long running hit on Broadway….

David Merrill

merrill-head-250 David Merrill is a principal of Taco Lab, a design/engineering firm in San Francisco specializing in physical-to-cloud interfaces. He is a graduate of the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab, where he studied with Pattie Maes…

Temple Grandin

temple_300 Temple Grandin earned her Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois, went on to become an associate professor at Colorado State University, and wrote two books on autism, including the seminal Thinking in Pictures. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Kristina Halvorson

halvorson_061_300x300 Kristina Halvorson is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading web content strategists. For more than a decade, she has led content projects for hundreds of web initiatives across dozens of industries…

Martyn Ware

martyn_ware Martyn Ware is global creative director of Sonic ID and a renowned pioneer in electronic music and immersive media.

Martyn founded the seminal bands Human League and Heaven 17 and produced albums for Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby and others, totalling sales of more than 60 million records…

Noel Franus

Noel Franus manages the global identity practice for Sonic ID. He is an experience designer focused on the nexus of people, sound and brand interaction.

Prior to joining Sonic ID in late 2007 Noel directed strategy for Elias Arts’ audio identity group, in that time leading sonic identity systems for Fortune 500 brands in finance, gaming and technology…

Genevieve Bell

Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow and director of the User Experience Group within the Intel Digital Home Group.

Bell joined Intel in 1998 as a researcher in the Corporate Technology Group’s People and Practices Research team – Intel’s first social science oriented research team. She helped drive the company’s first non-U.S. field studies to inform business group strategy and products and conducted groundbreaking work in urban Asia in the early 2000s….

Erin McKean

Erin McKean calls herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She was most recently Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, and was the editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e. She is the editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly. and the author of Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, and That’s Amore (also about words)…

Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud has been writing, drawing, and examining comics since 1984. He’s best known for his seminal work Understanding Comics, which has developed a cult following among UX professionals and visual thinkers the world around….

Alexa Andrzejewski

Alexa Andrzejewski is an interaction designer for Adaptive Path. She is driven by the belief that improving even one person’s life through attentive design can have far-reaching effects. This belief was born from her extensive experience designing complex interactive products for industries ranging from healthcare to finance…

Brandon Schauer

Brandon Schauer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. He speaks, writes, trains, and practices experience design as a differentiator for business strategy.

Brandon’s passion for finding and understanding the unmet needs of customers has led him to diverse environments, from the homes of cancer patients to tunnels beneath Walt Disney World. This insight with customers — plus a solid grounding in business analysis and a mastery of design methods — allows Brandon to help organizations define and design more meaningful experiences for their customers…

Darren David

Darren David is an award-winning pioneer in the field of RIA development, with a 13-year career in the industry. His list of firsts includes leading development for the first Flash-based online SAT preparation course, developing the first WPF-based application to be publicly deployed on Windows Vista, and engineering the UI for the world’s largest multi-touch wall…

Jesse James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett, Co-Founder and President of Adaptive Path, is one of the world’s most widely recognized technology product designers. At Adaptive Path, Jesse supports the company’s designers and strategists with creative guidance and helps them advance the company’s thought leadership position…

Julia Houck-Whitaker

Julia Houck-Whitaker is a Project manger at Adaptive Path. Here at Adaptive Path, she works with companies from the legal industry to the travel and leisure industry, and helps develop and manage events, large and small…

Rachel Glaves

Rachel is an experience designer at Adaptive Path. She is fascinated with the current pace of technology and believes that human-centered design has the power to create understanding and inspire delight in a frequently chaotic world….

Michal Migurski

Stamen partner Michal Migurski architects the technical aspects of Stamen’s work, moving comfortably from active participation in Stamen’s design process, designing database schemas and API’s, to creating the dynamic applications that Stamen delivers to clients…

Nathan Moody

Pixels and people, media and metaphor, business and brand. This summarizes Nathan’s incredibly broad creative career that spans almost every digital medium, most content delivery platforms, and most major software technologies over nearly two decades…

Peter Merholz

Peter Merholz is president and one of the founders of Adaptive Path. For more than six years, Peter has been instrumental in developing Adaptive Path’s ability to provide world-class consulting, training, and public events.

Rachel Hinman

Rachel Hinman is a mobile design strategist for Adaptive Path. With over a decade of design industry experience, she is a strong believer in approaching mobile design and strategy from an empathic, human-centered perspective. Rachel’s passion for people, design, and the belief that people can use technology to improve their lives has been the driving force of her career for the last ten years…

Jared Cole

Jared Cole is an interaction designer at Adaptive Path. He firmly believes that design is a fundamental human instinct and that learning and practicing design gets you a glimpse into what makes human beings tick. Jared’s particular focus is on culture, behavior, and experience.

Sarah B. Nelson

Sarah B. Nelson has ten years of experience in interactive media and designing kiosks, mobile, and online experiences for clients in a variety of industries. Sarah has a particular passion for practice development, conducting research into methods for improving collaboration, supporting creativity, and encouraging innovation…

Todd Wilkens

Todd Wilkens is a design researcher for Adaptive Path. Thanks to over a decade of experience in research and design, Todd holds a passionate belief that by truly understanding people, we can create compelling product and service experiences as well as real value.

Tom Carden

Tom Carden joined Stamen in November 2006. Before that, he wrote passenger flow simulation software for London-based architecture firm YRM and studied for his Masters in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation at University College London. He also has a Bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence with Mathematics from the University of Leeds…

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