Expert Voices

Sarah Doody is an NYC based user experience designer and product strategist. She works with startups to help them launch their initial product as well helping companies already in market optimize their user experiences. She is the founder of a popular UX newsletter – The UX Notebook. Sarah also teaching about user experience, she co-developed and […]

In short, Peter Knocke positions himself as a UX Director and Digital Strategy Consultant. He continuously works with a variety of organizations, ranging from small start-up groups to larger, multi-brand companies. The main selling points that he stresses in his description are that he provides product and business strategy and collaborates with many teams to

As part of an assignment for my Advanced UXD class, I had to interview a UX professional. Since the majority of my interest in UX goes beyond the realms of formal information institutions such as libraries or museums, I decided to get in touch with a designer that works in advertising creating digital branding experiences

  Hubert Uy is the User Experience Lead at the United Nations Development Programme. He shares with us how User Experience design within the United Nations differs from startups and design agencies. He gives us insights on the U.N.’s bureaucratic evaluation processes, as well as the different design and usability challenges that they face.     Hubert

I talked to Diana Sapanaro, UX Researcher and Strategist at SoundingBox. The conversation below has been paraphrased from a phone interview. Tell me a bit about the work that you do. How did you get started in this field? I went into library school thinking I was going to be an academic librarian, but I

I sat down with Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit, the Head of the NYU Libraries User Experience department, to discuss her work at NYU and the role UX design plays in her position. KD: Your background is in academic librarianship. How did your career path bring you to UX? NTK: Well, I’m still an academic librarian, so it

I interviewed Iris Bierlein, a UX Specialist with the NYU Libraries UX department .We discussed her role as a UX researcher, and her interest in qualitative research in particular. KD: To what degree does your role as a UX Specialist allow you to commit time to research? IB: I’m the lead on the qualitative research,

This interview was a part of an assignment for class where I had to interview an UX Professional to gain insights into the work environment, UX process followed in the industry and what does the future hold for UX professionals. I’d like to thank Mr. Varun Gupta for the interview, who was very patient enough