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Kevin Arthur specializes in touch interface usability and works at Synaptics, a supplier of capacitive touch hardware and software. As part of the Synaptics usability team, he conducts usability studies, expert reviews, and writes design guidelines in support of internal and external customers. He has a PhD in computer science and has previously published research in human-computer interaction and computer graphics.
Barbara is founder and President of Little Springs Design, an agency that creates enriching, world class experiences on mobile, small-screen and convergent devices for today's connected user. Barbara has worked in mobile design services, devices, web sites, and applications since 1998, helping companies like Sprint, The Weather Channel, IBM, Thwapr, and LG. Barbara contends that mobile user experience goes beyond simply designing for the small screen, as the mobile is both more and less than the desktop PC. Author, "Designing the Mobile User Experience." Curator, Design For Mobile resource library and conference.
Frank is a Principal Staff Research Scientist in the Experiences Research Lab at Motorola. His work combines methods from anthropology, computer science, human computer interaction, and design to invent and prototype new concepts to strengthen social relationships. This path moves from ethnographic-style studies, to prototypes with field evaluations, to creating new products from these concepts. Recent work has included Contacts 3.0, the concept for the social phonebook in MOTOBLUR, and TuVista, a sports-video system that provides multi-angle replays and fan-generated content to mobile devices within 30 seconds of a play occurring. Frank also teaches a class, Communicating with Mobile Technology, at MIT.
Jonathan is the Product Futurist at Implied Sciences, a contract skunk works with unique expertise in gestural interfaces, 3D motion capture and image analysis, camera and display hardware.
He has over 15 years of experience as a product planner, creative director, research manager and mechanical inventor. Prior to Implied Sciences, Jonathan was a principal at Product Lust and Machines for Selling where he developed products, events and retail stores for Sony, Microsoft, IBM, Time Warner, Lego and Verizon.
Josh Clark is a designer, developer, and author specializing in iPhone user experience. He's author of the O'Reilly books "Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps" and "Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders." Josh's outfit Global Moxie offers workshops and consulting services to help creative companies build tapworthy iPhone apps and effective websites.
Tim is Vice President of Marketing at WDSGlobal, a leading provider of specialist managed services dedicated to improving the wireless user experience. Helping global carriers and OEMs to optimize the development, delivery and ongoing care and maintenance of their products and services, Tim’s work puts him in the front line of the industry, witnessing how wireless innovation performs in the hands of millions of end-users around the world.
Nick Finck is a user experience professional who has worked in the web industry for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research. Nick has created web experiences for Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Google and Oprah.com. He lives and plays in Seattle, Washington, where he’s the User Experience Director at Blink Interactive, a recognized leader in evidence-driven design.
Prior to working at Blink he was a founder of Blue Flavor, a user experience consultancy, where they launched one of the very first web applications for the iPhone. Nick was the publisher of Digital Web Magazine, an online publication for web professionals, for ten years. He is actively involved in the web community, helping as adviser to such events as SXSW Interactive, the Information Architecture Summit, InfoCamp Seattle and in the past, WebVisions. Nick has also judged The Webby Awards and theSXSW Web Awards.
Suzanne Ginsburg is a user experience consultant based in San Francisco, California, and the author of Designing the iPhone User Experience. She works with many different kinds of organizations, from established technology companies to small iPhone start-ups. Suzanne also maintains a UX blog, iPhone UX Reviews at iphoneuxreviews.com, where she reviews iPhone and iPad apps and provides advice on app design.
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal’s Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile group. Jason is a co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development. He blogs at CloudFour.com and provides a frequent updates about mobile on Twitter.
Markus leads the user experience strategy and execution for mobile, TV and converged home services at Rogers Communications in Toronto, including a large portfolio of Rogers iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps.
He has spent the past 8 years in mobile user experience design at TELUS, Orange, Nokia and several leading design agencies in Europe and Canada. At Orange in London, he lead the re-design of the Orange Homescreen. Markus worked on the Nokia N700 Internet Tablet, the Nokia 7700/ 7710 touchscreen media devices and the Nokia 9300/ 9500 Communicator devices based at Mobile Innovation in London.
A passionate educator, Markus has lectured and initiated design partnerships at universities in the Europe and North America. Most recently, he was the Design Exchange's "Designer In the Classroom," spending a year exploring mobile design with 32 seventh graders in Toronto.
Markus has a Master's degree in interaction design from the University of Westminster, London and a Bachelor's degree in International Trade from the University of Waterloo.
Ian is co-founder and technical director of bemoko, the mobile internet software specialists, who provide a powerful and flexible mobile web delivery platform that makes it easy for developers to deliver multi-channel web experiences. Prior to founding bemoko he led the implementation of mobile web portals for operators around the globe, including AT&T Wireless, Orange, Turkcell and MTN. He's been living and breathing mobile web for nearly a decade and is always seeking new ways to improve the experience for both the user and developer. At the heart of this is the choice of the user to connect how and when they like and for the developer to be able to deliver relevant and effective experiences that allow this.
Steven Hoober has been documenting design process for all of his 20 year design career, and entered mobile full time in 2007 when he joined Little Springs Design. His work includes Designing by Drawing and he is a frequent contributor to the Little Springs Design blog. Steven has led projects on security, account management, content distribution, and communications services for numerous products, from construction supplies to medical recordkeeping. Before coming to Little Springs, Steven spent eight years at U.S. mobile operator Sprint.
Michael S. Horn is an assistant professor at Northwestern University with a joint appointment in Computer Science and the Learning Sciences. His research interests center broadly around the intersection of human-computer interaction and education with a focus on innovative and thoughtful uses of emerging technologies in learning settings. Some of Prof. Horn's recent research projects have included an investigation of multi-touch tabletops in natural history museums and the use of tangible programming languages in kindergarten classrooms and science museums.
Scott Jenson has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for 20 years. He was the first member of the System Software Human Interface group at Apple, working on System 7, the Apple Human Interface guidelines, and spent 3 years on Newton. Scott has done freelance design work for clients like Netscape, Mayo Clinic, and American Express, and was the director of product design for Symbian. He's now lead designer for Mobile UI at Google. As both a programmer and UI designer, Scott is constantly looking for better ways to close the gap between programming and user experience.
Dan develops hardware and software interfaces for devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and desktop computers to improve their ease of use. He has worked for clients ranging from small startups (Jabra Corporation, Mobileum) to large corporations (Nokia, SBC Technology Resources & now AT&T Labs). Dan believes in being a primary user-advocate, promoting the user-centered design process and focusing on ease of use. He has contributed to books on small-screen interfaces and making wireless applications easy to use, been an invited speaker at a number of events promoting user interface design techniques and tips to application developers, and authored multiple U.S. and international patents.
Karlyn Neel is a Design Manager at eBay where she was design lead for eBay’s well known iPhone application. The app has since gone on to generate over $600 million in eBay sales and is expected to generate $1.5 billion in volume through mobile commerce this year. Karlyn has also created award-winning design for e-commerce, retail, technology and financial industry clients including Sprint, Macy’s, Mervyn’s, Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, Hewlett-Packard, Providian and WebEx. She is a member of the AIGA, BayCHI, the SF IxDA chapter and a former member of The San Francisco Design Museum Board of Directors and Western Art Directors Club.
Nader Nejat, as founder and CEO of Omega Mobile, has an all-consuming passion for mobile multimedia. It drives his interests as a lecturer, teacher, mobile multimedia developer and entrepreneur. He thrives on seeing people go beyond the passive consumption of mobile media to engage and play, and in turn, create it themselves. His career has been dedicated to working in entertainment, advertising, technology, and marketing for a wide variety of companies such as: Adobe, Nokia, AT&T, Microsoft, Motorola, MTV, NBC, Qualcomm, Sony, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, & Virgin Mobile.
Greg is a user experience designer who is passionate about designing intuitive and resourceful systems with obvious ROI. For over 11 years he’s been researching and designing user interfaces for finding, multi-step workflows, and business dashboards for the web and mobile platforms. His clients include both large companies (eBay, PayPal, Cisco WebEx, CapitalOne) and creative startups (ThirstyPocket, Grockit). He writes a monthly column “Search Matters” on UXmatters.com. Greg’s new book, "Design Patterns for Ecommerce Search: Design Secrets and Successful Strategies for Happy Customers" is due out from Wiley in the Spring 2011.
Corey taught Anthropology for 12 years before deciding to enter the software universe. As a professional educator, Corey was always interested in, yet disappointed with, the educational technology that textbook publisher sales reps were peddling. Convinced that more could be done to create effective computer-based educational experiences, Corey started Exprima Media, a software company dedicated to creating robust and engaging educational experiences for the web and native mobile platforms. Exprima is currently working with Pearson Education, W.W. Norton, John Wiley & Sons, and McGraw Hill to build the future of educational media.
With a PhD in American art history and a background in filmmaking, curation and art criticism, Nancy Proctor published her first online exhibition in 1995. She co-founded TheGalleryChannel.com in 1998 to present virtual tours of innovative exhibitions alongside comprehensive global museum and gallery listings. She has worked in product development, international sales and research for Antenna Audio and Discovery Communications. Nancy is now the Head of New Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She also manages MuseumMobile.info, is leading the program development for this year’s Museums Computer Network and Tate Handheld conferences and was recently appointed Digital Editor of Curator: The Museum Journal.
Albert Shum directs the Mobile Design team at Microsoft, in Seattle and Redmond. The team consists of interaction, visual, motion, industrial and brand designers along with user researchers and design program managers working in a open studio. Our team collaborates with engineering and business partners to create integrated mobile experiences for our consumers. Prior to Microsoft, Albert led the convergence of technology and sports efforts at Nike resulting with the digital Nike+ experience. Albert has a Master's of Product Design from the Stanford University, a Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and the General Management Program from Harvard Business School. In his spare time, Albert is on his bike training for Etape Du Tour.
Nika has over 10 years’ experience in user experience design and research. At Blink, Nika manages major UX studies and provides research for companies such as Microsoft, Blue Nile, Burger King, Washington Post, AMA and others. Prior to Blink, Nika worked at Google, where she led major research efforts for the Gmail, Calendar, and Reader teams. Nika has also served as an information architecture and interface design consultant for organizations including Ford Motor Company, the US Department of Education, the American Society for Information Science & Technology, and Intel. Nika holds a Master of Science in Information from University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from RIT.
Carol currently manages a mobile product research and design group focused on mobile commerce, marketing, portals, social networking, and search for both mobile Web and client applications. She previously managed the UX for T-Mobile USA’s commercial web properties including e-commerce and self service sites, and online advertising destinations. Carol was a founder and partner in both Magi Group Interactive, a regional experience design and development consultancy, and Sakson & Taylor, a top U.S. content design and technical communications firm. She has served fortune 500 customers like Starbucks, Costco, ATT, Verizon, HP, SAP, and Microsoft. Carol is a published author of academic papers and third-party software books, and founder of the University of Washington’s Mobile UX Research Group. She received her M.S. in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the UW.
Alan Tifford is Principal Experience Designer for mobile in Intuit's Consumer Group. He recently launched SnapTax, the mobile industry's first ever start-to-finish tax preparation application for the iPhone. Hailed as "genius" by TechCrunch, SnapTax reinvented the way people do their taxes. Alan has over 12 years experience in interaction design and development for web and mobile based software. In addition to pioneering the mobile design space at Intuit, he's known as a problem solver and inventor with over 20 patents pending in the areas of financial management and tax preparation. Alan has also been lead designer for TurboTax and several other innovative financial applications.
Seanita is a co-lead in the design and development of the Global Mobile Toolkit, a campaign planning, execution and analytics platform currently being developed for the many global Omnicom agencies and brands. She is also spearheading the development of the Experience Lab, a mobile consumer research and design lab focused on the conversion of consumer insights into brand engagement opportunities. Seanita focuses on user experience design, information architecture, user research and usability and product strategy.
Ryan Unger has over 15 years of experience with programming and development, and has dedicated the past five years to emerging and mobile technologies. Ryan has spearheaded mobile efforts for many of the world’s most well-recognized brands including Qualcomm, GE, UPS, Pearson Education, Anne Geddes, and the ASPCA. During his career, Ryan’s work has received a number of design and marketing awards from organizations including the Mobile Marketing Association, the American Advertising Federation, the Public Relations Society of America and the Web Marketing Association. He has been cited in the book “Mobile Web Design” by Cameron Moll, has authored for Adobe.com , and previously sat on Adobe’s Mobile and Devices Advisory Committee. Currently, Ryan serves as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s Web Award competition as well as the Internet Advertising Competition. In 2010, Ryan will serve as a judge for the Mobile Marketing Association Awards.
Katrin is the co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org, a global network of practitioners using mobile phones for social impact, currently working on mobile projects in governance, accountability, and political participation in emerging democracies. She is also leading a team focused on mobile security tools. She has led several nonprofit organizations, including as the Executive Director of NTEN and served as a program officer at the Proteus Fund, focusing on the use of technology in civic and democratic participation, and in government transparency. She has written widely on mobile phones in citizen participation, civil society organizations, in health and for development. She is a frequent speaker and has published numerous articles as well as editing the book Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. She is 2009 TED Fellow and a fellow at the MIT Media Lab.
Itai Vonshak specializes in creating interaction patterns for novel technologies. He combines his knowledge in HCI and Computer science to create designs that are not only innovative but also possible under real world constraints. Itai, with over 10 years experience in the field of interaction design, is a co-founder of elements. elements is a product strategy group focused on mobile user experience with the goal of helping companies use their technology and know-how to create products and services that make people?s lives better. Located in Israel and Palo Alto elements has worked on projects for RIM, Orange, Vodafone, Telmap, Mapquest, else mobile and more.
Scott’s 20 years in user experience spans work at Apple, Microsoft, Sybase, Autodesk, and Usable Products Company, an agency he started in 1996. Clients included Vodafone, Verizon, Sprint, Intel, LG, and Samsung. Scott has designed user interfaces for desktop software, operating systems, web, mobile, and consumer electronics. Mobile computing has been Scott’s passion since he wrote “Handheld Usability,” published in 2002. He now looks after the Symbian user experience, found on nearly 400 million phones worldwide.
Luke is an internationally recognized product design leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 700 million people worldwide. He is currently UX Architect at Yahoo! Inc. where he works on product alignment and forward-looking integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, TV, and beyond. Luke is the author of two popular Web design books (Web Form Design and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability) and many articles on digital product design and strategy. Luke is also a consistently top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).