Editorial Advisors

Irene Au | Director, User Experience, Google

Irene is dedicated to raising the strategic value of design and user research within companies through better design methods and practices, processes, leadership, and quality. Irene currently heads the User Experience practice at Google, where her team is responsible for design and user research for Google's products worldwide.

Peter J. Bogaards | Curator, InfoDesign: Understanding by Design

InfoDesign's Peter Bogaards has been an online content curator avant-la-lettre in information architecture and related user experience fields for more than a decade, choosing what he thinks is interesting, relevant or remarkable to share. With his tagline "Sharing knowledge is better than having it," he has been an indispensable resource for many within the UX community. Currently, Peter works as community builder at Informaat User Experience Design.

Josh Clark | Principal, Global Moxie

Josh is an interaction designer specializing in mobile design strategy and user experience. He's author of Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (O'Reilly, 2010) and Best iPhone Apps (O'Reilly, 2009). Before the interwebs swallowed him up, Josh was a producer of national PBS programs at Boston's WGBH. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, strolled the ranch with Nancy Reagan, hobnobbed with Rockefellers, and wrote trivia questions for a primetime game show. In 1996, he created the uberpopular "Couch-to-5K" (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical would-be exercisers take up jogging. (His motto is the same for fitness as it is for software user experience: no pain, no pain.)

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.

Kim Goodwin| Consultant

Kim believes that since there are more design problems than there are good designers, the best way to make the world a better place is to teach design methods and skills. Kim is known internationally as a speaker, teacher, and author of Designing for the Digital Age. She applies her experience as a design leader to helping clients build their own teams, processes, and skills. Kim spent most of the last decade as VP Design at Cooper.

Steve Krug | Principal, Advanced Common Sense

Steve has been a usability consultant for more than 20 years, working on dozens of great projects with smart people at interesting companies. His guide to web usability, Don't Make Me Think, has sold 300,000 copies, and its younger brother, Rocket Surgery Made Easy was born in December 2009.

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 Design Is the Problem, Experience Design 1, Making Meaning, and contributing to Richard Saul Wurman's Information Anxiety 2.

Kristian Simsarian| Associate Partner, IDEO

Kristian Simsarian believes in the power of design to simplify, enrich and transform our lives and world. Spanning from processes to pixels, his work focuses on both design education and bringing innovative human-centered design and strategy to fruition for client companies and institutions. Kristian is an Associate Partner at IDEO and chair of the new undergraduate Interaction Design program at the California College of the Arts.

Rashmi Sinha | Cofounder & CEO, SlideShare

Rashmi Sinha is the CEO & Cofounder of SlideShare Inc., the world's largest community for sharing presentations online. 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.

Jared Spool | CEO & Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

Jared has guided the research agenda and built User Interface Engineering into the largest research organization of its kind in the world. He's been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.

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.