Insights and inspiration for the user experience community
About UXmatters
Our Mission
- Produce a Web magazine that delivers compelling content about
- developing effective user experience (UX) strategies
- designing digital product user experiences that optimally serve people’s needs and satisfy their desires
- Create the premiere source of information and inspiration for UX professionals.
- Provide a forum for the discussion of progressive ideas about important issues relating to user experience.
- Become a trusted information source that
- consistently meets the needs of the expanding community of UX professionals
- advances disciplines relating to the design of user experiences
- encourages high standards of practice among UX professionals
- Educate both the broader product development community and the public about the value of designed user experiences.
- Establish a UX community-created publishing venue where experts in UX strategy and design can enhance their professional reputations.
- Provide opportunities for community building among UX professionals
through blogging and collaborative work.
Our Editorial Vision for UXmatters
- Produce a high-quality, richly illustrated publication.
- Cover a broad spectrum of topics about UX strategy and design for a diverse range of digital products.
- Disseminate information about UX design innovations, practical applications of research findings, standards, guidelines, patterns, techniques, and best practices.
- Provide topical columns, in-depth feature articles, interviews, and product reviews in clear, accessible language.
- Publish news that is relevant to the UX community.
- Provide information free of charge, ensuring that it is available
to everyone on the Web.
- Build teams of passionate, creative, dedicated volunteers
to work collaboratively to publish a great publication.
The UXmatters Team
- Pabini Gabriel-Petit—Founder, Publisher, Editor in Chief, & Director of User Experience Design
- Peter J. Bogaards—Founder, Advisory
Board Member, & News Editor
- Steve Baty—Columnist
- Matt Ceglia—Copyeditor
- Michelle Corbin—Copyeditor
- Nick Finck—Advisory Board Member
- Jonathan Follett—Advisory Board Member & Columnist
- Michael Hawley—Columnist
- Mike Hughes—Columnist
- Colleen Jones—Advisory Board Member & Columnist
- Dirk Knemeyer—Advisory Board Member & Columnist
- Andy Kuo—Web Developer
- Joe Lamantia—Columnist
- Traci Lepore—Columnist
- Jim Nieters—Columnist & Contributing Editor
- Greg Nudelman—Columnist
- Whitney Quesenbery—Advisory Board Member & Columnist
- Robert Reimann—Advisory Board Member
- Lou Rosenfeld—Advisory
Board Member
- Jim Rudolf—Web Developer
- Paul J. Sherman—Columnist
- Janet M. Six—Managing Editor & Columnist
- Peter Trudelle—Director of Web Development
- Luke Wroblewski—Advisory Board Member, Columnist, & Graphic Artist
- Scott Yu—Graphic Artist