How did you get involved in user experience design?
Was a software trainer for many years & Tech Writer then was UAT (User Acceptance Testing) Analyst which was somewhat similar to this field- easy transition.
What’s your speciality and is that your favorite part of user experience design?
User research- but I enjoy working with wireframes and mockups.
What [...]
How did you get involved in user experience design?
I was working as a trainer / tech writer for an over-engineered (unnecessarily so) application. The team brought in a Usability expert who not only suggested a larger study, but also suggested our team learn about Usability. I became one of the first members of [...]
How did you get involved in user experience design?
Mainly through my internship here at GSK.
What’s your speciality and is that your favorite part of user experience design?
I’m still learning but currently, my specialty is creating the visual design for web pages and applications.
What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced as a user [...]
How did you get involved in user experience design?
Working collaboratively with our multifunctional UCD team members here at GSK
What’s your speciality and is that your favorite part of user experience design?
Specialties and favorite parts - Contextual Inquiry, Usability Testing, Personas and Scenarios, High-level Navigation Design
What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced as a [...]
How did you get involved in user experience design?
I went to college for Industrial Design and Graphic design. In the curriculum at NC State University’s College of Design, I gained a lot of exposure to Human Factors. Designing with specific people and needs in mind really interested me and I chose to explore this further [...]
Nicole S. Robbins is a User Experience Designer for IBM WebSphere. “I’m currently working on IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory. With all projects, I strive to simplify the user experience and consider the user, then the technology. I joined team IBM to rally around our common initiative and meet more designers in the field.”
David Kovach is [...]
How did you become interested in user experience design?My family encouraged artistic and intellectual expression. Though my brother’s the certified artist in the family, I always enjoyed thecreativity involved–even if I never have time for it. Web site design gave me the opportunity to apply structure to creativity through HTML and later CSS. There’s so [...]
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Virginia Hill of IBM
Shimon Shmueli of Touch360
Ross Teague of Insight Product Development
Virginia Hill is an IBM interaction designer, committed to the use of a contextual inquiry approach to understand software users, their needs and behaviors, and to form the basis [...]
How did you become interested in user experience design?I began my career as an anthropologist studying material culture. I was particularly interested in how object design manipulated human behavior and how to interpret the messages people send to each other through their ownership of objects and related designs. When I started investigating how these concepts [...]
Graeme Boddy, Vice President of Information Services and Business Applications at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Graeme was born in Nelson in Lancashire, England. He and his family spent most of their life traveling the world with his father who was in the R.A.F. After traveling through Europe, Graeme took a [...]
