What’s your plan for the near future? If you’re like most in our field, the path forward is murky and no one at your office is handing out maps. We’ll look at the trends and tactics that matter, so you can make your own map for moving ahead.

PRESENTATION SLIDES ARE HERE: The Near Future

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Brandon Schauer, program chair and your host at MX, is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. He speaks, writes, trains, and practices experience design as a differentiator for business strategy.

Brandon’s passion for finding and understanding the unmet needs of customers has led him to diverse environments, from the homes of cancer patients to tunnels beneath Walt Disney World. This insight with customers — plus a solid grounding in business analysis and a mastery of design methods — allows Brandon to help organizations define and design more meaningful experiences for their customers.

Brandon has over a decade of experience developing new products, services, and user experiences for the web, desktop, and devices. He’s keynoted, presented, and conducted workshops at such conferences at Business to Buttons, IA Summit, Designertopia, and UIE Web App Summit.

Brandon holds two master-level degrees from schools with the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received a Master of Design from the Institute of Design in Chicago where he studied the planning, development, and management of innovation. Concurrently, he graduated with a MBA from the Stuart School of Business. Brandon is a past editor for the Institute of Design’s Perspectives on Design and Strategy, allowing him to pick-the-brains of leaders in the fields of innovation, design, and strategy. He’s also co-author of Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World and was recently included in Business Week’s “Twenty-One People Who Will Change Business” round up.

He also has a love of Excel that is unnatural for a designer.