Ross Belmont gave up a life of code to build the design practice at Appiphony, a Chicago-based consultancy focused on Salesforce.com apps
Brett Schilke
Chief Instigator
IDEAco
Brett Schilke is an education designer, storyteller, and self-proclaimed man-of-making-things-happen.
Ben Lister
Senior UI Designer
Sprout Social
Ben built his first website, a Nirvana fan page, in the late 90’s (on GeoCities) and hasn’t looked back since.
Brittanie Crain
Interaction Designer
Manifest Digital
Brittanie is an Axure-pro and part of the User Experience team at Manifest Digital.
Rose Robinson
Program Manager
Anita Borg Institute
Loren Norman
Product Developer
TourBuzz
Mike Gibson
Lead Designer
Table XI
Mike is the lead designer at Table XI. He enjoys semantic markup, modular CSS and long-walks on a moonlit beach.
Dennis Kardys
Design Director
WSOL
Dennis Kardys is a Chicago based UX designer and author with an affinity for all things mobile. He’s the author of the recently published Mobile Web Triage, and a contributing author to Smashing Magazine’s The Mobile Book.
Andy Hullinger
Program Chair
Harrington College of Design
Andy Hullinger is a design professor and the Program Chair for Web Design and Development at Harrington College of Design.
Tom Greever
User Experience Designer
Bitovi
Tom is a user experience designer, consultant, and trainer for Bitovi.com–a mobile and web-app design agency based in Chicago
