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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…
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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…
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Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, design essayist, and Net critic. His book on product frontiers, Shaping Things, inspires designers to rethink how they approach their craft…
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Dave Wolf
Dave Wolf is Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Whether traveling around the world driving strategy and developing new business for the company or on the stump stateside talking to press, analysts and conferences, Dave delivers Cynergy’s user experience thought-leadership far-and-wide…
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Mark Baskinger
Mark Baskinger is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. His work spans across graphic, product, interaction, and environmental design with expertise in aesthetics, semantics, semiotics and expressing information through product forms to make interaction understandable and intuitive.
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Peter Samis
Peter Samis is Associate Curator of Interpretation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). In 1993, he served as art historian for the first CD-ROM on modern art, and then spearheaded development of SFMOMA’s Interactive Educational Technologies (IET) program…
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Audrey Chen
Audrey Chen is the Senior Information Architect at Comedy Central where she led the IA for sites such as TheDailyShow.com, SouthParkStudios.com’s full episode player and ComedyCentral.com…
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Indi Young
Indi’s work spans a number of decades, from the mid-80’s when the desktop metaphor was replacing command line and menu-based systems, to the mid-90’s when the Web first toddled onto the scene, to now, when designers are intent on crafting good experiences.
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Aaron Powers
Aaron’s areas of specific expertise are: (1) human-robot interaction (2) building experiments and studies, especially complex web-based ones, and, more broadly, (3) human-computer interaction & user experience evaluation, design, & development…
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Kevin Brooks
Kevin is a principle staff researcher for Motorola Labs and a professional oral storyteller. At Motorola, Kevin researches new user-interface technologies and expresses these technologies as connected user-centered experiences, creating “technology stories” that incorporate elements of audio, video, graphics, written language and computer programming…
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Jake Barton
Jake Barton is founder and principal of Local Projects. Local Projects is an award-winning hybrid physical/design firm focused on museums and public spaces. Currently, Local Projects is partnered with Thinc Design to design The National September 11th Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center…
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Margaret Gould Stewart
Margaret currently manages the User Experience Team for Consumer Products at Google Inc. Her team is comprised of nearly 30 top practitioners in the fields of user experience design and research.
Margaret has been a practitioner and manager in the field of User Experience for over 10 years…
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Jane McGonigal
Game designer and future forecaster Jane McGonigal takes play seriously. She writes and speaks about the power of digital games, virtual worlds, and other immersive experiences to change reality and to shape our future — and she creates games that are doing just that.
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Don Norman
Don Norman is the author or co-author of fourteen books, including the seminal The Design of Everyday Things, and his recently released The Design of Future Things.
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Scott Griffith
Scott Griffith — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zipcar — was appointed in February, 2003. Under Scott’s leadership, Zipcar has emerged as the world’s largest car sharing service, with more than 100% membership and revenue growth year to year. In the fall of 2007, Scott led Zipcar’s merger with Flexcar, managing the integration of the companies’ fleet, technology and membership base under the Zipcar brand and service.
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Jeffrey Veen
Jeffrey Veen, Design Director, Google. One of Adaptive Path’s founders, Jeffrey is an internationaly renowned designer, writer, and speaker, and has spent the past two years bringing great design to products at Google.
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Mike Kuniavsky
Mike Kuniavsky, Principal, ThingM. One of Adaptive Path’s founders, Mike is now running ThingM, an ubiquitous computing device studio. ThingM’s first product, a smart wine rack called WineM, was featured at Wired’s NextFest, and will be on display at UX Week 2008.
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Johnny C. Lee
Johnny Lee, HCI Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University. Johnny’s recent work exploring interaction techniques enabled by the Nintendo Wii remote has startled and inspired the education and gaming communities demonstrating ideas that are readily accessible by millions of people around the world.
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Neo-Futurists
The Neo-Futurists are a Chicago-based avant-garde theater troupe best known for their long-running production, “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.”