Managing Experience Across the Web and Beyond

Genevieve Bell

As director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs, Dr. Bell leads a research team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers and computer scientists.

Ian Swinson

Ian Swinson is the Director of User Experience at Salesforce.com for the Platform and Analytics design teams.

Richard Dalton

Richard Dalton manages a User Experience team at Vanguard where he passionately advocates designing user experiences within the context of user and business goals.

Sarah B. Nelson is the Chief Instigator and Igniter of Passions at Tapir & Tine. Tapir & Tine helps organizations transform from process followers into design leaders through disruptive training, coaching and facilitation.

Vidya Drego

Vidya serves Customer Experience Professionals. Her research focuses on the future of digital experiences.

Chris Risdon

Chris's journeyman path has helped shape his belief that finding the right blend of interaction design and communication design enables people to have compelling and useful experiences.

Melissa Matross

Melissa Matross is the Head of Mobile for The Hotwire Group. Leading a new business and team, she drives all mobile initiatives and strategy, including mobile web channels and native app innovation.

Kevin Nolan

Kevin Nolan is responsible for managing consumer research and analysis activities within the Strategy Analytics User Experience Practice.

Miguel Lunaparra

Miguel Lunaparra is a Creative Director, Global Experience Design at Sony, where he is helping to devise the global organization’s future digital experiences—including e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses.

Nancy Dickenson

From Apple to ABCNews to Scient to eBay, Nancy has dedicated over 20 years to driving user experience groups, strategies, projects and businesses.

Brandon Schauer

Brandon Schauer is President & Managing Director for Adaptive Path. He speaks, writes, trains, and practices experience design as a differentiator for business strategy.

Lynne Waldera

Lynne Waldera is founder and CEO of InMomentum, Inc., a privately held management consultancy focused on organization and executive development.

Greg Petroff

Greg Petroff is the General Manager of GE's UX Center of Excellence. At GE, Greg is leading efforts to define the human interface to the industrial internet, connecting people to machines and systems in meaningful ways.

Dane Howard

Dane Howard is Director of Verticals & preVIZ at eBay. As a designer and entrepreneur, he has built his career through helping companies design, prototype and build products.

Todd Wilkens

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 for users and real value for businesses.

Thor Muller

Thor Muller is a serial entrepreneur and startup advisor, currently co-founder of Get Satisfaction, a community platform that allows companies to collaborate openly with their customers.

Kip Lee

Kip is a PhD candidate in the Design, Management and Information Systems program at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.

Karen Myers

Karen Myers is Co-Founder of creative recruiting firm, Talent Farm. She got her start in recruiting nearly a decade ago at a boutique creative staffing agency & later joined frog design as the company’s first-ever dedicated recruiter.

Laura Kirkwood-Datta

Laura Kirkwood-Datta runs the consulting line of business at Adaptive Path and operations of the San Francisco studio.

Marta Fuentealba

Marta Fuentealba is Co-Founder of the creative recruiting firm, Talent Farm. She has spent over a dozen years helping creative teams find design talent in locations around the world.

April Showers

April Showers leads the User Experience Team at United Airlines. April spearheaded the User Experience practice at Continental Airlines five years ago, had the opportunity to re-build the team from scratch.

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