UX Evangelists

1.
Bill Scott
b.scott@yahoo.com
http://twitter.com/billwscott

Description:
Bill Scott is director of UI Engineering at Netflix in Los Gatos, CA, where he plies his interface engineering and design skills. Scott is the former Yahoo! Ajax evangelist and pattern curator for the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.
He has a long and glamorous history in the IT world, due mostly to his unique understanding of both the technical and creative aspects of designing usable products. His ramblings and musings can be found at www.looksgoodworkswell.com.

Publications:
Designing Web Interfaces, Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, O'Reilly

Video:
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1285664/4515808


2.
Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path
http://blog.jjg.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James_Garrett

Description:
Jesse James Garrett is a user experience designer whose work in rich, real-time Web software systems essentially led to the development of new paradigm in online interactivity known as AJAX. James' seminal, early-2005 paper on the subject has been widely cited and extended by information technologists to create new models of information presentation on the Web, such as Google Maps.[1]
Jesse James Garrett is a co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design firm, and co-founded the Information Architecture Institute. His essays have appeared in New Architect[3], Boxes and Arrows[4], and Digital Web Magazine[5]. Jesse attended the University of Florida.

Publications:
The Elements of User Experience, User-Centered Design for the Web

Video:
http://vimeo.com/6952223
http://blog.discuss-discover.com/2009/10/video-interview-mit-jesse-james-garrett/



3.
Peter Morville
http://semanticstudios.com/

Description:
Semantic Studios is an information architecture and user experience consulting firm led by Peter Morville. We help our clients around the world to create better web sites, intranets, and interactive products and services.

Publications:
Search Patterns, O'Reilly
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become (Paperback),O'Reilly
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites (Paperback),

Upcoming Presentations:
Keynote. Enterprise Search Summit
New York, New York. May 12, 2010
IA with Maps. UX London
London, England. May 20, 2010

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXOv8HJa1MY


4.
Jared Spools
http://www.uie.com/

Description:
User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. Jared M. Spool and his team of researchers oversee a variety of events and publications.

Publications:
Our UIE Virtual Seminars allow you to learn from the comfort of your own office.
In 2010, we added a brand new event, the UIE Web App Masters Tour. A two-day event focusing on web-based applications happening in four different citites.
The User Interface Conference, November 8-10, 2010, in Boston, is a three-day event covering the biggest issues in the world of design.

Video:
http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/blog/entry/video_jared_spool_what_makes_design_intuitive/


5.
Christian Crumlish
http://twitter.com/mediajunkie
Oakland, California

Description:
Christian Crumlish is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and has been designing and writing about online user experiences since 1994. He is a director of the Information Architecture Institute, a member of the Open Web Foundation, and co-chair of the monthly BayCHI program.
He is the author of The Power of Many and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces with Erin Malone. He studied philosophy at Princeton and painting at the San Francisco School of Art, and lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Briggs, and his cat, Fraidy.

Publications:
Designing Social Interfaces
Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience, O'Reilly

Video:
http://igniteshow.com/videos/christian-crumlish-designing-play



6.
Stephen P. Anderson
http://www.poetpainter.com/

Description:
Stephen P. Anderson is a product strategy and design consultant who helps large companies create valuable customer experiences.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Stephen spent more than a decade growing and leading teams of information architects, interaction designers and UI developers in the creation of all types of interactive experiences, bringing value to clients such as Nokia, Frito-Lay, Sabre Travel Network, and Chesapeake Energy as well as smaller technology startups.
Stephen is passionate about elegant design, remarkable customer experiences and managing maverick teams– topics he loves to write and speak about. In addition to consulting, he is in the process of doing research for a book that will teach businesses how to attract and manage rockstars, superheroes and other misfits.

Publications:
http://www.poetpainter.com/speaking/
http://www.poetpainter.com/consulting/

Video:
http://mxconference.com/videos/video-of-stephen-anderson-at-mx



7.
Louis Rosenfeld
http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/

Description:
Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant, and founder and publisher of Rosenfeld Media, a publishing house focused on user experience books. He has been instrumental in helping establish the fields of information architecture and user experience, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within those fields.
http://louisrosenfeld.com/biography/

Publications:
http://louisrosenfeld.com/publications/
http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/products/

Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7454504685193710603#


8.
Luke Wroblewski
http://www.lukew.com/

Description:
Luke is currently Chief Design Architect at Yahoo! Inc. where he works on product alignment and forward-looking integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, TV, and beyond.

Publications:
Web Form Design, FILLING IN THE BLANKS, By Luke Wroblewski. Rosenfeld Media, May 2008.
http://vimeo.com/4420806

Video:
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?794



9.
Eric Reiss
http://www.ux-lx.com/ericr.html

Description:
Eric Reiss is the author of Practical Information Architecture (ISBN 0-201-72590-8) and Web Dogma '06. He has emerged as one of the most influential figures on the European information architecture/usability scene. In recent years, Reiss has also been an outspoken critic of innovationists who do not differentiate between innovation and invention. Reiss argues that innovation is a later stage than invention and that it is always a planned activity and never accidental.

Publications:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Reiss

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiObQxRUX3s



10.
Bruce Mau
http://www.brucemaudesign.com/

Description:
Bruce Mau is a visionary and world-leading innovator. As Chief Creative Officer of Bruce Mau Design, he proves that the power of design is boundless, and has the capacity to bring positive change on a global scale.
Mau founded his studio in 1985, and his first project was the celebrated Zone Books series. A decade later he produced S,M,L,XL, an award-winning compendium developed in close collaboration with Rem Koolhaas. In 2003 Mau founded the Institute without Boundaries, a studio-based postgraduate program that was formed out of the conviction that the future demands a new breed of designer. This became the engine for Massive Change, an ambitious travelling exhibition, publication and educational program series that mapped out the power and possibility of design. In recent years he also worked on !Guateamala!, in collaboration with business and cultural leaders of Guatemala, to design a galvanizing movement to realize a positive future of their country.

Publications:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Mau#References

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrfUBr1impQ



11.
Matthias Müller-Prove
User Experience & Interaction Design
http://www.mprove.de/

Description:
Matthias Müller-Prove, Dipl.-Inform, verfügt über langjährige Berufserfahrung im Bereich Human-Computer-Interaction bei international operierenden Software-Firmen. Er hat maßgeblich die Benutzungsschnittstelle von Adobe GoLive gestaltet und arbeitet derzeit im User Experience Team von StarOffice für Sun Microsystems. Er ist Mitglied der ACM/SIGCHI und der Usability Professionals' Association UPA.

Events:
12. April User Experience Roundtable Hamburg
20. April [HIForum] Arno Rolf über Informatik und Gesellschaft
8. Mai artop Kamingespräch, Berlin
27. Mai TEDxHamburg

Publications:
http://de.sevenload.com/videos/k3nmH0E-Matthias-Mueller-Prove-Erfolgsfaktor-Informationsarchitektur-ein-Ueberblick-ueber-Konzepte-und-Methoden


12.
Donald Norman
http://www.jnd.org/

Description:
Donald A. Norman (* 25. Dezember 1935) ist emeritierter Professor für Kognitionswissenschaften der University of California, San Diego und Professor für Informatik an der Northwestern University. Er gilt als Usability-Spezialist und ist zusammen mit Jakob Nielsen und Bruce „Tog“ Tognazzini Gründer der Firma Nielsen Norman Group, die sich hauptsächlich im Bereich Usability-Beratung betätigt.

Publications:
http://www.jnd.org/books.html#608

Video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/don_norman_on_design_and_emotion.html




13.
Indi Young
http://www.adaptivepath.com/aboutus/indi.php
http://www.indiyoung.com/
indi@acm.org

Description:
Indi is an applications and navigation guru who began her work in Web applications in 1995. Her clients range from technology start-ups to large financial institutions. Projects include global corporate intranets, consumer finance and investment tools, enterprise software lead generation sites, knowledge management tools, workflow applications, and business-to-business e-commerce.

Publications:
Mental Models ALIGNING DESIGN STRATEGY WITH HUMAN BEHAVIOR
By Indi Young. Rosenfeld Media, February 2008.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AsxNg9nNU








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http://www.adaptivepath.com/aboutus/appearances/