Jess McPheron A tinkerer at heart, Jess McPheron is an ideating and problem-solving enthusiast. Curiosity and a passion for creating led him into the world of product management seven years ago when building his own ecommerce concept. This period of...
Justin Dauer Justin is a multi-faceted, multi-pierced, multi-tattooed designer, author, and speaker. He wrote the celebrated book “Creative Culture,” speaks internationally on culture and design, and is the Vice President of Design at bswift, a CVS Health company. With Josef...
Carolyn Chandler Carolyn Chandler has been working in the field of User Experience Design for over 20 years, after finding it due to a driving interest in psychology and anthropology. As Director of UX at Eight Bit Studios, her areas...
Jeff Eaton Jeff Eaton helps large organizations understand, model, and manage their content. For 25 years, heଁs tackled digital publishing, web development, and content strategy problems for organizations large and small. Whether he’s fixing problems with CMS architecture or editorial...
Amanda Weller Amanda has over 10 years of experience designing and executing custom projects that deliver creative, insightful solutions to complex problems to create intuitive, innovative, useful, fun experiences for people around the world. Fluent in various methodologies to deeply...
Megan Machamer UX research specialist and ethnographer with 10 years of social science research experience in both professional and academic contexts. A highly dedicated applied anthropologist who is enthusiastic about culture and technology, and specializes in: research design, discovery, ethnography,...
Lindsey Gates-Markel Lindsey leads content strategy at Pixo, working with teams of clients, designers, and developers to explore the space between what exists and what is possible. She loves dumb questions and metadata. For more, keep up with Lindsey at...
Clifton Simmons Clifton Simmons is an award-winning writer, creative leader, and UX content strategist with over 20 years of experience spanning advertising and user-centered design. He currently serves as Associate Content Design Director at Allstate, where he merges storytelling, UX...
Lauren Liss Lauren Liss coordinates the Interaction Design major and the User Experience and Web Development minors in the Interactive Arts and Media (IAM) Department at Columbia College Chicago and has been a faculty member in this program since 2006....
Sup Suh Sup Suh is an experience designer at Bounteous, where his work encompasses everything from user research to human-centered design. He is originally from Korea but now based in Chicago. He has 10 years of experience working in the...
