Liz Danzico | User Experience Consultant

Liz Danzico is chairperson and co-founder of the MFA in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts. With more than a decade of experience as a user experience professional, she makes information useful, usable, and delightful for products and services of all shapes and sizes. She is on the board of directors for AIGA/NY and is editor-in-chief emeritus of Boxes and Arrows.

Andrew Dillon | Dean & Professor, School of Information, The University of Texas

Andrew is a researcher, educator, and consultant in the field of human psychology as it relates to information creation and use. He serves on numerous editorial boards for journals dealing in human-computer interaction and has authored more than 80 books and articles on various aspects of user experience design.

Steve Krug | Principal, Advanced Common Sense

Steve has been a usability consultant for more than 15 years, working on dozens of great projects with smart people at interesting companies. Don't Make Me Think, his guide to web usability (second edition published in September, 2005), has sold 150,000 copies.

Mike Kuniavsky | Consultant

Mike is a user experience designer focused on ubiquitous computing. He is the author of Observing the User Experience and is organizing The C4F3, a cafe of augmented objects, for the ISEA2006/ZeroOne festival. He is a founder of Adaptive Path and the Wired Digital User Experience Lab.

Ginny Redish | President, Redish & Associates, Inc.

Ginny helps clients create useful and usable web sites, documents, and applications. Ginny's book on writing for the web, Letting Go of the Words—Writing Web Content that Works (Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 2007) has received rave reviews in blogs and at online book sites. Ginny is also co-author of two UX classics: A Practical Guide to Usability Testing and User and Task Analysis for Interface Design.

Marc Rettig | Principal, Fit Associates

For 25 years, Marc has been a practitioner, educator, and influencer. Marc applies behavioral research and design methods to product strategy and design for experience. He is much in demand as a speaker and educator. His company, Fit Associates, helps teams around the world make things that please people.

Nathan Shedroff| Consultant

Nathan Shedroff is Program Director of the MBA in Design Strategy program at the California College of the Arts. His books include Experience Design 1, Making Meaning, and contributing to Richard Saul Wurman's Information Anxiety 2.

Rashmi Sinha | Cofounder & CEO, SlideShare

Rashmi Sinha is founding principal of SlideShare, a user research consultancy. A psychologist by training, she specializes in methods and practices for understanding people. She conceptualized MindCanvas, Uzanto's web-based user research service for eliciting mental models, thoughts, and feelings.

Dan Szuc | Principal, Apogee Usability Asia Ltd

Daniel believes in growing the "UX pie" in all its forms to help improve products for people and their environment. He has been living in Asia for ten years and teaches UX around the world. He co-wrote the Usability Kit with Gerry Gaffney, occasionally writes for UXMatters, and is on the Board of the Usability Professionals Association. He is passionate about both connecting with the UX community and selling UX (in all its forms) to all.