Strategic Advisors

Diane Cerra | Executive Editor, Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Diane Cerra is executive editor at Morgan & Claypool Publishers, where she publishes the HCI Series and other computer and information science-related series in the Synthesis Digital Library. She is former publisher at Morgan Kaufmann, an imprint of Elsevier, where she founded and published books in the MK Series in Interactive Technologies, among other classic texts and references.

Dave Gray | Founder and Chairman, XPLANE

Dave Gray is the creative force behind the Unbook, and Chairman of XPLANE, the visual thinking company. Dave's time is spent researching and writing on visual business, as well as speaking, coaching and delivering workshops to corporate clients.

Dirk Knemeyer | Founder, Involution Studios LLC

Dirk is a Founder of Involution Studios, a software services company with clients that include Apple, Microsoft, AstraZeneca, Oracle and Shutterfly. Dirk has published more than 100 articles, given over 50 speeches and presentations—including conference keynotes in Europe and the United States—and participated on 13 boards for corporations and non-profits.

Jonathan "Yoni" Knoll | Designer+Architect, InfinityPlusOne

Jonathan Knoll is an experience designer who has spent more than a decade engaged in nearly every facet of software design and implementation. He brings UX deliverables to life through his extensive knowledge of prototyping, and his skills have been brought to bear for Standard & Poor's, messagefirst, Happy Cog, many of the industry conference web sites (including those of IDEA, Interaction, and the IA Summit), and, most recently, in the complete overhaul of Rosenfeld Media's UX Zeitgeist.

Harry Max| VP of User Experience and Design, Rackspace

Harry Max was an early pioneer in e-commerce and crowd sourcing. He was a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (wine.com), where he designed all the interaction concepts behind the first secure Web shopping system, and the founder of Public Mind, the first social CRM system for harnessing the voice of the customer. until recently, he was an executive leadership and development coach, management consultant, and creative catalyst working with global brands and leaders in transition.

Peter Morville | President, Semantic Studios

Peter Morville is co-author of the "polar bear book" on information architecture and the author of Ambient Findability and Search Patterns. He is a founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute, a faculty member at the University of Michigan, and a popular speaker at user experience events. He blogs at findability.org.

John Zapolski | Principal, Management Innovation Group

John is a founding principal of the Management Innovation Group and an accomplished strategist, researcher, and designer. He is a member of the national board of directors of the AIGA, the professional association for design, and programmed the first ever Designing for User Experiences (DUX) conference.

Emeritus Strategic Advisors

Tony Byrne | Founder, CMS Watch

Tony is founder and editor of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral technology analyst firm. Byrne also consults with leading global enterprises and public agencies to help them select and implement the right content technologies. A former reporter, publisher, international educator, and 16-year internet veteran, Byrne previously headed the engineering and production groups at an IT consulting firm. He is the author of The CMS Report, and publisher of the Enterprise Search Report and Records Management Report.

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.

David Weinberger | Author, Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society

David Weinberger, Ph.D., is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. His new book, Everything is Miscellaneous (Times Books, 2007), is about the effect of the new principles of digital organization on business, culture, and knowledge.

Jeffrey Zeldman | Founder and Creative Director, Happy Cog Studios

Zeldman is an internationally known web designer and author. A leading architect of the web standards movement (and author of the ground-breaking Designing With Web Standards), he publishes A List Apart magazine "for people who make websites" and The Daily Report at zeldman.com.