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Brad Larson Brad comes from a background in Flash, animation, and video and originally made his living through Flash work.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....
Tanner Christensen Tanner Christensen is the Head of design at Gem.com, where they’re building the platform for the future of recruiting. Previously Tanner was a lead product designer at Lyft, Atlassian, and Facebook. He’s also co-host of the New Layer...
Christian Spinillo Christian, a New Jersey native, is an award-winning technology leader, previously holding leadership roles at multiple start-ups and award-winning advertising agencies like Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Doner. Throughout his career, he has focused on large scale product...
Jen Blatz Jen Blatz is a Principal UX Researcher at BECU. Jen’s path to UX started in journalism and graphic design to UX design and finally at UX research and strategy. She has worked in a number of fields including...
Debra Gelman Debra Gelman is a leader, strategist, author, and practitioner in the digital design and user experience space. Throughout her 20-year career, Deb has used customer behavior to drive the design of experiences for the telecommunications, financial services, healthcare,...
