Who are the people responsible for creating compelling and engaging information experiences? What do they think about current and emerging trends in the field? Posts in this category offer thoughts, opinions, and perspectives of seasoned information architects, usability researchers, interaction designers, content strategists, and other UX professionals.
Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, an educator at NYU teaching User Experience Design, an international public speaker, and the author of the book ‘Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind (Design Thinking)’. Throughout her ten years of career working in the design field, she has always been trying to …
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Karen Wang is currently a UX designer at Amazon Web Service (AWS). She had pursued a bachelor’s degree in industrial design at London, and a master’s degree of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design. Previously, she had also worked for Citibank, NBCU, and Vroom. I am looking forward to interviewing her to …
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Luna Chen is an interaction designer who works for google. She got an architecture degree from Harbin Institute of Technology and later she got her master’s degree from UCB. During her time at Salesforce, Luna got an HCI certification from MIT. The reason why I chose to interview her is that she has a rich …
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On April 2nd I had the chance to interview Bushra Mahmood, who is currently a Lead Designer in Adobe. I was glad to interview her because she is a designer with years of experience but also she works for Adobe – the creator of tools that I use for designing as far as I have started designing. It was a very nice conversation for me and I am glad to present it here
I had the opportunity of interviewing Will Hsu, a UX Designer at Entertainment Benefits Group, LLC (EBG). Entertainment Benefits Group is a fast growing e-commerce company that specializes in live-entertainment and travel. I decided to interview Mr. Hsu because I wanted to learn more about the responsibilities of a UI/UX Designer, and how Pratt’s UI/UX …
For the Expert Voices interview, I reached out to an interaction designer working at Google because I have always been curious about what it is like to work as a UX professional at a global tech company like Google that makes products for a large and diverse group of users. As per the UX expert’s …
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I had the honor of interviewing Ms. Lauren Dukes, a UX Designer who has been working for Design Systems International since October, 2020. Formerly an Interior Designer as well as a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) who served in Albania, Lauren uses the skills and practices learned from her prior experiences to her product design …
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Recently, I talked to Matthew, a Lead UX Designer at Wikimedia who works on the Structured Data team. Wikimedia, or what Matthew and his colleagues call “the Foundation,” is the non-profit organization that owns the internet domain names of many movement projects and host sites like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
The screen has become the predominant and default way for humans to interact with computers, but everyday voice based interfaces are becoming more and more advanced. Last Friday, Richa and I sat down with Omri Dvir, a Senior Design Lead at Microsoft who works on Cortana, to learn more about usability considerations of voice user …
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I had the opportunity to listen to a talk on “You are not the user- Why and how design decisions should be informed by research and data” by Christina Ou, who is a product designer at Percolate. The talk was given as part of an event called HexHacks, which was a UXathon run by Hexagon. …
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