Stephen Anderson

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… (continue)

Lane Becker

Lane Becker is co-founder and President of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers. Previously, Lane was co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy, research, and design consultancy, known for, among other things, coining the technology terms “blog” and “ajax.” (continue)

Teresa Brazen

Teresa Brazen is a project manager for Adaptive Path and advocate for bringing User Experience Design to new audiences and industries. She came to the User Experience industry after years of working in the art and the non-profit world. She is a strong believer in communicating about User Experience without… (continue)

Jim Carlsen-Landy

Jim has managed successful enterprise-wide initiatives in UI design & technology, and software process improvement. He has years of experience as a software project manager in supply chain management, manufacturing, communications, and defense with a technical background in user interface design and development, object-oriented design, and artificial intelligence. (continue)

Norm Cox

Norm is cofounder and principal of Cox&Hall. Educated in Architecture and Design at Louisiana State University, he began his career at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the late ’70s as a visual designer for the Xerox “Star”. This seminal personal workstation began a revolution in “user friendly” human-computer interaction by pioneering the now ubiquitous graphical user interface. (continue)

Garrett Dimon

Garrett is on a mission to make the Web a better place. Armed with usability and efficiency, he’s convinced that if it needs instructions, it doesn’t work. That’s why everything he does — from information architecture to site development — is elegant in its simplicity and a complete joy for the user. (continue)

Joe Dyer

Joe Dyer is a Senior Information Architect with Travelocity, in Southlake TX and has 11 years of design, information architecture, usability, and web strategy experience. Joe and his UX Architect wife have two small children who will soon know how to classify and categorize all their toys. (continue)

Giovanni Gallucci

Giovanni Gallucci is a recovering .NET programmer turned tech evangelist and social media consultant. Giovanni provides strategy for new developments in social media, search, online public relations and buzz marketing and functions as a strategic representative to top politicos, internet personalities, celebrities, and forward-thinking… (continue)

Marti Gold

Marti Gold is Associate Creative Director at Travelocity with extensive expereince in print and web design. Marti’s portfolio includes designs for magazine covers, restaraunt menus, print collateral, print advertising, web sites, and much more. (continue)

Michael Griffiths

Michael Griffiths has been designing and developing new media for 17 years, and still suffers night terrors spawned from the 16 color VGA palette. Michael’s mix of strategic and conceptual design abilities, client facing skills and business sensibility make him a unique and valuable creative. He has built all forms of new media including computer based training, marketing CDs, kiosks, trade show media, web sites, hand held devices and apps. (continue)

Caleb Jenkins

Caleb Jenkins is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises, National Speaker for INETA, Microsoft MVP, featured presenter for xTrain.com and Adobe.TV, technical editor for Wrox Publishing and certified Scrum Master. Improving Enterprises, Inc. specializes in delivering enterprise solutions, agile methodologies… (continue)

Chris Koenig

Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft in March of 2007, Chris worked as a Senior Architect for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers… (continue)

Erica O’Grady

Erica O’Grady is the #1 Erica on Google - Most days She is currently a Social Media Consultant based in Houston, Texas. Wearing many hats - including Social Media Consultant, Award Winning Web Designer/Developer, Creativity Coach, Writer, Part-Time Tutor, Aspiring Film-Maker, BarCamp Enthusiast, World Traveler, and Grown-up Girl Scout… (continue)

Ryan Plesko

Ryan is a marketing strategist and web designer/developer hybrid with a concentration on design, function, content, usability, and search engine optimization. He’s currently a chairman of the Dallas Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association and designed and developed the critically acclaimed chapter website (as well as this one). He’s a founding member of The Creative Space… (continue)

Adam Polansky

Adam Polansky is the Manager of the Information Architecture team at Travelocity where he concentrates on Internet applications and processes associated with the practice of IA.

He has been an Information Architect since 1997 and has over 20 years experience in media development… (continue)

Elysa Rice

Named after a purple billboard in Paris, Elysa was destined be a designer before she was even born. Elysa Rice is a native Texan who is a graphic designer by profession and hobby.

She believes having a keen eye for design is a blessing and a curse. She finds inspiration all around her, but hates bad design; she can not fully… (continue)

Sharron Rush

Sharron is the co-founder and Executive Director of Knowbility, a nonprofit organization that grew from the first Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) in Austin in 1998. Sharron leads the effort to replicate the AIR program in cities throughout the country. Because of AIR, professional Web developers from hundreds of… (continue)

Derick Schaefer

Derick Schaefer is the founder and Managing Director of Orangecast Social Media Marketing in Dallas, TX. Orangecast provides eMarketing solutions for a variety of industries including social media consulting, reputation management services, and blog strategies. Orangecast currently owns and operates two sports blogs, MidwestSportsFans.Com and… (continue)

Bill Scott

Bill Scott is author of Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions and 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… (continue)

Dr. Paul Sherman

Paul Sherman is founder and principal consultant at ShermanUX. He has worked in the field of usability and user-centered design for the past 12 years. He was most recently Senior Director of User-Centered Design at Sage Software in Atlanta, Georgia, where he led efforts to redesign the UI and improve the overall customer experience of the Peachtree Accounting desktop application and ePeachtree web-based app… (continue)

Ben Smithee

Ben Smithee is a Market Researcher, who has worked with Fortune 500 in domestic and global markets. Recently, Ben has started his own company called Spych Market Analytics, which targets its Market Research into youth markets. The Spych team has young moderators trained in the latest technology and methods, including social media… (continue)

Dr. Christina Wasson

Christina Wasson is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Texas. She was one of the early practitioners in the field of design anthropology; in the late 1990s she worked for E-Lab, the first design firm where all client recommendations were based on ethnographic research. She wrote the seminal article “Ethnography in the Field of Design” (2000), as well as… (continue)

Todd Wilkens

Todd Wilkens is a senior practitioner and manager of Adaptive Path’s Austin, Texas studio. His research, strategy, and design experience ranges from online communities to consumer electronics to brick-and-mortar retail experiences. With academic training in sociology, information science, and computer science… (continue)

Dr. Susan Weinschenk

Dr. Susan Weinschenk has over 30 years experience as a consultant worldwide and is Chief of Technical Staff and Services at Human Factors International. Her areas of expertise include persuasive interface design, neuropsychology, user centered design, and generational differences… (continue)

Joanne Wright

Joanne is a lead information architect with Travelocity, currently involved with design for Internet, mobile, and application interfaces. After spending 20 years in operations and marketing for wholesale and retail travel for companies such as Braniff, American Express Travel, Texas Instruments, and Dr Pepper, she left the workforce to make a career change… (continue)