Susan Weinschenk has a Ph.D. in Psychology and over 30 years of experience as a behavioral scientist. She is a consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, governments and non-profits. Dr. Weinschenk is the author of several books, including 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, and How To Get People To Do Stuff. Her clients include Medtronic. Walmart,...

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Peter Morville is president of Semantic Studios, where he advises such clients as AT&T, Cisco, Harvard, IBM, Macy’s, the Library of Congress, and the National Cancer Institute. A pioneer of the fields of information architecture and user experience, Peter is the author of a number of best-selling books, including Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Ambient Findability, Search Patterns, and Intertwingled. His work has...

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Stephanie Rosenbaum is CEO of TecEd, Inc., a UX consultancy whose ethnographic research clients include Google, Cisco Systems, VMware, Varian Medical Systems, Ford Motor Company, and a wide variety of smaller firms. Stephanie is a frequent presenter at UXPA and ACM SIGCHI conferences, received the STC’s Rainey Award for Excellence in Research, and was awarded an IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000. Her research background includes...

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Farris is Senior Vice President: Product Director / General Manager for Ford.com. He leads a cross-departmental agency team in the continual design, development, & deployment of Ford digital properties. Previously, he was Analytics Lead at Proquest where he leveraged data to help leaders at the $700MM/year revenue digital content company make strategic decisions. Prior to ProQuest, Farris served as Product Director for ForeSee (a...

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Danielle has over 15 years of experience in a multitude of user research and usability analysis methods utilized on a wide variety of applications, including hardware, Windows, web, telephone, and mobile. Her successful designs have been implemented at both large and small, public and private companies in many industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to car rental to financial services.Active in the field, she was the conference...

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Dante is the Senior Director of User Experience at Epsilon. He’s a designer, strategist, researcher, mentor, skateboarder, and presenter at conferences and workshops across the globe. He has performed health-related research on four continents and his work has been published in MedAdNews. His responsibilities include ideation, design, research, methodologies, and building a world-class multi-disciplinary design practice....

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Russell Branaghan is Associate Professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, Visiting Professor of Human Factors Engineering at Northwestern University, and Visiting Scientist at Mayo Clinic. At ASU, Russ directs the User Experience Lab (X Lab), where he works with students to study ways to improve the interaction of people with complex products, including automotive systems and medical devices. His work at...

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Kevin has operated his own agency for 23+ years and has racked up quite a few accolades along the way;  Ranked by StatSocial as one of the “2015 Top 100 Social Media Influencers” in the world. Ten-time winner of Forbe’s “Best of the Web” Three time winner of a “Best of …” award in the New Hampshire Internet Awards Two-time recipient of an International Communicator’s Award Inclusion in the fourth edition of Logo Lounge, an...

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Kristin Kolodge is Executive Director of Driver Interaction and Human Machine Interface (HMI) at J.D. Power. She is responsible for developing a new HMI Practice at the company and monitoring customer insights, perceptions and behaviors of the consumers interacting with the technology in their vehicles and around them. Prior to joining J.D. Power in 2014, Ms. Kolodge was senior manager of HMI and ergonomics at Fiat Chrysler. She spent...

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Sarah leads a team of user experience design consultants serving the retail ecommerce industry at Oracle. She has 19 years of experience in application and web interface design focusing on information architecture and usability research. In addition to coaching and mentoring user experience and creative team members, Sarah works with clients to establish clean, simple, and positive user experiences on their sites. Sarah’s past clients...

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Dave has made his career designing products to fit people. He has designed physical, visual, and auditory user interfaces for hand-helds, kiosks, web sites, production machines, and automobiles, and has conducted user research in the lab, on the web, in the field, in cars, and in the homes of consumers. Dave has held user experience consulting, sales, and management positions in both corporations and in consulting groups including...

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Keith S. Karn, Ph.D. Keith Karn is the owner and principal consultant of Human Factors in Context LLC, a consulting firm offering user research, human factors engineering, and physical / digital interaction design. Keith has been steeped in human-centered design since strapping himself into the ejection seat of a supersonic airplane during his first human factors job in the early ’80s. Since then he has trekked across mountains,...

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Chris has been doing IA and UX design for 18+ years. He is a Lead User Experience Designer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, doing user experience design for strategic projects within a cross functional team for the public site BCBSM.COM. Previously, Chris was on the UX team at ProQuest, where he works on agile user experience teams designing search interfaces and library workflow solutions. Before that, Chris worked at...

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Guthrie Weinschenk has his J.D. from the Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, and dual B.S. degrees in Economics and International Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a Behavioral Economist and the Chief Operations Officer at The Team W. Guthrie consults, speaks, and teaches on Business Strategy, Economic Analysis, and Technology Integration, and is the host of the HumanTech podcast.

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Detroit born and bred. Father of two, husband of one. Studied at Wayne State University, Eastern Michigan University (BFA), College for Creative Studies, School of Visual Arts, and the University of Michigan (MFA). Taught graphic design at Wayne State University, Eastern Michigan University, and College for Creative Studies. Worked with Audi, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Detroit Institute of Arts,...

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Ray Kail is the lead UX Designer at Meijer. He’s a certified SAFe Agilist who’s been directing the UX design process supporting Meijer.com, the Meijer mobile apps, and the Curbside shopping team member app. Last summer he started running a bi-weekly usability testing program to generate frequent feedback and findings from customers. Prior to joining Meijer, Ray worked at Steelcase, J.P. Morgan Chase, and also served 10 years in the...

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Jason Withrow has over 18 years of experience in user experience, business analysis, web development, and project management. A Certified Scrum Product Owner, he is a Senior User Experience Practitioner and Project Manager at TecEd and a faculty member in the Web Design & Development program at Washtenaw Community College. His educational background includes a Master’s degree in Information from the University of Michigan and a...

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Brian Krenz is a Senior UX Designer at Oracle. He works in commerce design, spending his efforts consulting across three of Oracle’s retail platforms. Prior to joining Oracle several years ago, Brian had stints at an educational technology start-up and a design agency. He earned his Masters degree in HCI from the University of Michigan School of Information in 2012. If you want to get on his good side, introduce yourself with a quote...

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