Jasmine Friedl Jasmine is the Director of Design at Intercom, and previously led product design at Udacity, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Facebook. She’s also co-founded Shape—an initiative to help designers kick off their careers in product design—with her husband Tanner...
Pasha Moore Pasha Moore is the founder of Holland Taucher Consulting Group (HTCG), a full-service political and not-for-profit fundraising and event planning firm. Pasha covers all aspects of fundraising and strategy, with a focus on major donor cultivation and corporate...
Neil Jacobsen Neil is a Chicago transplant working as a podcast producer as well as a teacher’s assistant and design mentor with Designation. He loves the design research process, talking to users, then bringing back ideas to them for testing....
Beth Zwolski Tobias Beth has been drawing since her mom placed a crayon in her hand. Over the years, she picked up passions for drawing, painting, animation, special effects makeup, and fabrication. She earned a B.A. in Film/Video with a...
Fred Beecher Fred Beecher has worked in User Experience since 1998. He is an established contributor in the field, having authored the first official Axure training program in 2007 and having written and spoken extensively on prototyping, design process, design...
Brad Larson Brad comes from a background in Flash, animation, and video and originally made his living through Flash work. Several years ago, his company made the transition to HTML5. Right now their focus is high-end HTML5 advertising and marketing....
Joanne Wang A rare mix of an analytic and polished designer. She is an extremely thoughtful designer and thinks through many iterations before implementing a final design. She has a sharp eye for design, and I often looked to her...
Aaron Irizarry Aaron Irizarry, aka “Ron,” is the Head of Credit Solutions Design in Capital One’s Commercial Bank. Aaron is also the co-author of Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique. More importantly, Aaron loves connecting with people through...
Ana Peralta Ana V Peralta is a User Experience Designer, CSPO and User Experience Strategist based in Austin, Texas. Ana is known for her work with the Dell IT Support site, Facebook’s Transparency reports and Disney’s Corporate Retreat e-brochure website...
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....