Dane Howard is a Designer & Entrepreneur. As an executive and co-founder, he has built his career through helping companies design, prototype and build products. With a background in sequential media, he has focused much of his work on fast, agile prototyping within a context of a product story.
Dane has worked on an international scale with Directors of Design, Marketing and R&D labs & Senior Executives. He has played a principle design and management role in developing key strategies for Microsoft, Designworks | BMW, Major League Baseball, Quokka Sports, NBCOlympics and eBay. His work and travels have brought him experience in working both in Europe & Asia.
He recently co-founded VUVOX, which was acquired in 2008 by eBay. He now helps run user experience design and ‘preVIZ’ at eBay (eBay.com/design).
Dane is an author, painter and designer, and father. A personal website for his kids spawned a book entitled, The Future of Memories to help anyone better prepare, document and share their life’s stories. Dane frequently speaks on photography, design and surviving big companies.
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What is a VizKitchen? How 'preViz' Is Helping Shape Billion Dollar Businesses
PreViz is a powerful movement that is taking place in film & television, product development and architecture. From special FX to business modeling, the practice of ‘Pre Visualizing’ a business’ future is being adopted on a wide scale. Powerfully large projects can rehearse their future to give an insight into how they can build and manifest into responsibly executed businesses.
Web commerce is no different. By re-inventing consulting inside of a company, learn how pre-visualization inside eBay is making an impact for design and the world. In Dane’s talk, you’ll hear about:
· Fundamental problems that starve innovation
· Finding an engagement model that works
· Extraordinary companies using preVIZ today
· Using preVIZ to rehearse your future