| Stephen P. Anderson Speaker and Consultant Stephen P. Anderson is an internationally recognized speaker and consultant based out of Dallas, Texas. He created the Mental Notes card deck, a tool that's widely used by product teams to apply psychology to interaction design. He’s also of the author of the book Seductive Interaction Design, which answers the question: "How do we get people to fall in love with our applications?”
Between public speaking and project work, Stephen offers workshops and training to help organizations manage creative teams, create interactive visualizations, and design better customer experiences.Amazon. | |
| Christopher Butler COO Newfangled Christopher Butler is the COO of Newfangled, where he directs strategy, design and personnel, as well as consults on a wide variety of topics surrounding design and technology. Christopher is a prolific writer and speaker. His articles have been published in PRINT, HOW, Smashing Magazine, Salon, and elsewhere, and he is the author of The Strategic Web Designer. He has spoken at events for HOW, the UCDA, AIGA, and the American Marketing Association.
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| Maciej Ceglowski Founder Pinboard Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard.In, an "antisocial" bookmarking site founded in 2009. Prior to beginning work as an independent contractor, Maciej worked as the first engineer at Yahoo!'s Brickhouse, where he worked as a backend developer and community manager and developed a visual airfare search engine called FareMaps. Some of Maciej's projects have included designing and building an internal data warehouse for Twitter, Building an online book reader for Otworz Ksiazke, a Polish Creative Commons project at the University of Warsaw, among others. | |
| David Cole Head of Design Quora David Cole is the head of design at Quora. Previously he led product design work for startups including EtherPad, Disqus, and Fluther. In 2010, David ran the studio Sleepover focusing on interactive editorial design. | |
| Jonathon Colman Content Strategist Jonathon Colman isn't ignoring you, he's just really, really introverted. Despite this, he's a Webby Award-winning content strategist at Facebook, the social network. Yeah, he’s surprised by that, too. Jonathon served overseas in the Peace Corps, has spoken at tech events on five continents (next up: Antarctica!), and graduated from the University of Washington with a master’s degree in information management. All that makes him a nerd, but don't worry—he's one of the good ones. You can find Jonathon on Facebook or Twitter @jcolman. Content Strategy for the Design of Products and Apps | |
| Aaron Draplin Draplin Design Co. Located in the mighty Pacific Northwest, the Draplin Design Co. proudly rolls up its sleeves on a number of projects related to the Print, Identity, Illustration and Gocco Muscle categories. We make stuff for Field Notes, Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, Esquire, Nike, Wired, Timberline, Chunklet, Incase, Giro, Cobra Dogs, Burton Snowboards, Dawes, Patagonia, Sub Pop, Target, Megafaun, Danava, Ford Motor Company, Woolrich and even the Obama Administration, if you can believe that. We pride ourselves on a high level of craftsmanship and quality that keeps us up late into the wet Portland night. Our Proud List of Services: Graphic Design, Illustration, Friendship, Clipping Pathery, Garying, Jokes/Laughter, Campfire Strummin’, Gocco Dynamics, Road Trip Navigation, Trust, Guitar Tuning, Gen’l Conversation, Culture Critique, Color Correcting, Existential Wondering, Bounty Hunting, Heavy Lifting, Advice, A Warm Meal, Simple Ideas and Occasional Usage of Big Words Tall Tales from a Large Man | |
| Von Glitschka Principal Glitschka Studios Von is principal of Glitschka Studios a multi-disciplinary design firm in the Pacific Northwest. The studio shines as a creative hired gun for ad agencies, design firms, and in-house art departments while working on some of the most respected brands in the world. Embrace the Fear: Creatively Recalculating Your Daily Design Routine | |
| Sam Harrison Author and Speaker Sam Harrison is an in-demand speaker and best-selling author on creativity-related topics and pitching/presentation skills. He has years of successful experience in agency, corporate and consulting roles. He was also a senior vice president of branding, marketing and creative services with an S&P 500 firm. He provides keynotes, workshops and coaching to organizations throughout North America and beyond. He also teaches at Portfolio Center’s graduate studies program. His books include IdeaSelling: Successfully pitch your great ideas to bosses, clients and other decision makers, IdeaSpotting: How to find your next great idea and Zing: Five steps and 101 tips for creativity on command. He is also a frequent contributor to HOW Design, Fast Company and other publications. | |
| Jim Krause Jim Krause Design Jim Krause lives in the Pacific Northwest and has worked as a designer, a photographer, an illustrator and a writer (all four in a single day, surprisingly often) since the 1980s. He's done jobs for a wide range of clients, large and small, including Microsoft, Kodak, Cingular Wireless, Seattle Public Schools, Levi Strauss, Washington Apples and more. Krause is the author of fourteen books on design and creativity, including his latest, D30: Exercises for Designers, published by HOW books. When he isn't working, Jim likes to hike, read, do art projects, race on his fast motorcycle and drink espresso. | |
| Michael Kruzeniski Director of Experience Design Mike is the Director of Experience Design at Twitter. The focus of Mike’s work is to bridge disciplines across design, business, and technology to create space where great product design work can take place. Over the past two years Mike has been working on growing the design team at Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter, Mike was a Principle Design Lead for Windows Phone at Microsoft, where he led design for the Social, Communication, Productivity, and International experiences on Windows Phone. From 2004 to 2008, Mike was a member of Nokia's Insight & Innovation design team in Los Angeles, working on strategy and conceptual design projects for Nokia. While at Microsoft, he helped establish and build the relationship between Nokia and Windows Phone's design teams. Mike has a Master’s Degree in Interaction Design from the Umeå Institute of Design in northern Sweden, and a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. Fluther. In 2010, David ran the studio Sleepover focusing on interactive editorial design. @mkruzeniski | |
| Ethan Marcotte Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design” to describe a new way of designing for the ever-changing Web. His popular book on responsive design has been widely praised, as it demonstrates how designers and organizations can leverage the Web’s flexibility to design across mobile, tablet, and desktop—and whatever might come next. Over the years his clientele has included New York Magazine, the Sundance Film Festival, The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and the W3C. Ethan is an advisor to Editorially, and has been a featured speaker at many conferences, including An Event Apart, SXSW Interactive, and Webstock. @beep | |
| Stefan Mumaw Creative Director Callahan Creek Stefan Mumaw is the Creative Director and Purveyor of All That Rocks at Callahan Creek, a Kansas City-area ad agency. He has authored six books, the most recent being Creative Boot Camp, a 30-day crash course on creativity. Previously, he authored Chasing the Monster Idea, co-authored Caffeine for the Creative Team and Caffeine for the Creative Mind with Wendy Lee Oldfield, as well as Redesigning Websites and Simple Websites. He has spoken at numerous creative industry gatherings over the years and been known to embarrass himself and those around him if given the opportunity. | |
| Nick Myers Director of User Experience Design Fitbit Nick Myers is director of user experience design at Fitbit where he leads the design of interactive products for mobile, web and devices. Prior to Fitbit, Nick was managing director of design services at Cooper where he led the consulting practice. He was an instructor for Cooper U and Rock Health, a health startup incubator, and wrote for the Cooper Journal. Nick has been an advisor for Practice Fusion and helped clients like Autodesk, Chefs Feed, Dell, GE, General Motors, Office Depot, and TaskRabbit, Nick has spoken at popular conferences like SxSW, Webvisions, Interactions, and Adobe Max. | |
| Steve Portigal Founder Portigal Consulting Steve Portigal is the author of Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, and is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a firm that helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. He has interviewed families eating breakfast, hotel maintenance staff, architects, rock musicians, home-automation enthusiasts, credit-default swap traders, and radiologists. Steve speaks regularly at corporate events and conferences such as CHI, IxDA, Lift, SXSW, UPA, UX Australia, UX Hong Kong, UX Lisbon, and WebVisions. His articles have been published in interactions, Core77, Ambidextrous, and Johnny Holland. He blogs at www.portigal.com/blog and tweets at @steveportigal.
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| Indhira Rojas Product Designer Medium Indhira Rojas is a product designer at Medium, a platform for everyone’s stories and ideas. In her practice she focuses on crafting engaging and meaningful product experiences, that are both beautiful and delightful to use. Her web and mobile design work is greatly influenced by a love for print, branding and editorial design. Rojas holds a Masters in Design from California College of the Arts and a Bachelors in Communication Design from Parsons The New School for Design. Her work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine and exhibited at Pasadena Museum of California Art in Los Angeles. @redindhi | |
| David Sherwin Director of User Experience Lynda.com David Sherwin is Director of User Experience at Lynda.com, where he leads a team of UX designers that are helping people around the world learn the skills they need to succeed and pursue their passions. He is also a Fellow at frog, a global product strategy and design firm. His books on design include Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills and Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers, both published by HOW Books. David has spoken at events such as SxSW, Interaction, UX London, and HOW Design Live, as well as taught at schools such as California College of the Arts and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. His writing has appeared in FastCoDesign, TheAtlantic.com, A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, HOW, and many other periodicals. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, the poet and writer Mary Paynter Sherwin. In his free time, he maintains the blog ChangeOrder at www.changeorderblog.com. | |
| Scott Snibbe CEO Eyegroove Scott Snibbe, CEO of Eyegroove, is a media artist and entrepreneur. Snibbe’s current passion is interactive music apps, which build on his pioneering work in gestural installations and interactive art. Snibbe’s art is in the permanent collections of the Whitney and MoMA, in apps such as Björk’s Biophila, and in concert tours, Olympics, science museums, airports, and other major public spaces. He has collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk, Philip Glass, and James Cameron. Snibbe was one of the co-developers of the special effects software Adobe After Effects, a researcher at Interval Research, and winner of numerous awards.
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| Sara Wachter-Boettcher Content Strategist, Editor and Writer Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a content strategist, editor, and writer based in Philadelphia, where she runs a content strategy consultancy. She is the author of Content Everywhere from Rosenfeld Media, a book that helps content professionals, designers, and others plan for flexible, adaptable content systems that can be accessed across channels and devices. She is also the editor in chief of A List Apart, a magazine about web content, culture, and code, and a speaker at conferences like SXSW, Confab, the Content Strategy Forum, Mobilism, Web Directions, UX Week, and Beyond the Desktop.
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| Brian Wood AskBrianWood.com Brian Wood is a web developer, an Adobe certified instructor in Acrobat X Pro, Illustrator CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, the author of 8 books including Illustrator CS6 Classroom in a Book, Adobe Muse CIClassroom in a BookB (published by Peachpit Press), and the author of numerous training DVDs including Muse, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat 8, Acrobat 9, Acrobat forms, and more. In addition to training many clients, including Nordstrom, REI, Boeing, Costco, DDB Seattle, Starbucks, Nintendo, NBBJ and many, many others, Brian speaks regularly at national conferences, such as Adobe MAX, Getting Started with Dreamweaver and CSS, The InDesign Conference, The Web Design Conference, The Creative Suite Conference, as well as events hosted by AIGA and other industry organizations. Brian has a youtube channel at:http://www.youtube.com/user/askbrianwood, and a video learning site at: http://www.askbrianwood.com/ Adobe Workshop: Creative Cloud, Illustrator, Photoshop and In-Design Tips and Tricks | |
