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Julia Houck-Whitaker

Julia Houck-Whitaker is teaching the workshop “Design is Made of People.”Julia Houck-Whitaker

Julia Houck-Whitaker is the Research & Development Manager at Adaptive Path. She makes our R&D work happen including projects like Charmr. She also facilitates and manages the practitioners’ external speaking and writing engagements.

Before joining Adaptive Path, Julia was the Director of User Experience at Bolt | Peters, a longtime friend and strategic partner of Adaptive Path. While at Bolt | Peters, Julia oversaw their User Experience Consulting business. She managed and led qualitative and quantitative user-research projects for clients such as Oracle, Hallmark and Greenpeace.

Her interest and passion for User-Centered Design began while studying at UC San Diego, where she studied Human Computer Interaction. In addition to her studies, she worked on Distributed Cognition projects focusing on strategic planning in conjunction with the San Diego Super Computer.

Julia enjoys knitting, as well as training for and running marathons. She is also an avid fan of the Denver Broncos.

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Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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