Visual Design
Anirban Basu Mallik
At Capgemini, Anirban is specializing in user interface design and information visualization for banking and financial services clients. Previously, as Senior Graphic Visualizer and User Experience Designer at Content and Design Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Anirban worked on projects spanning UX strategy, visual design, branding, creative writing, graphic design, user research, information architecture, interaction design, and design documentation. Prior to joining Cognizant, Anirban was Creative Head of Corporate Communications, at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). Anirban holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and is a Human Factors International Certified Usability Analyst (CUA). He is also a member of IxDA and HCI India.
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Specialties: Brand Strategy | Information Architecture | Information Design | Interaction Design | UX Strategy | Visual Design
Antonia Anni
A budding UX professional, Antonia began her journey as an artist who discovered that she was interested in the behavior of people. She earned a degree in the field of Engineering, then a Masters Degree in Multidisciplinary Design Innovation. At the moment, she is focusing on exploring what lies i the future of user experience, gamification, and value-based applications.
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Specialties: UX Design | User Research | Visual Design
Baruch Sachs
With over 12 years of experience leading and participating in successful efforts to improve user experience across various industries, Baruch has a developed a wide range of skills in the areas of interaction design, user interface development, and product management. For the past 5 years, he has developed and led the global user experience team at Pegasystems and serves as the principal end-user advocate for the Pegasystems Services organization in the delivery of user interface design and user experience to customers and partners.
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Specialties: Consulting | Human Factors | Interaction Design | UX Management | Visual Design
Calvin Chun-yu Chan
Calvin focuses primarily on user experience and mobile and Web user-interface design, but also enjoys doing illustration and graphic design work. Before becoming a designer, Calvin was a software engineer, building database-driven Web sites.
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Specialties: UX Design | User Interface Design | Visual Design
Catalina Naranjo-Bock
A UX designer and researcher, Catalina specializes in the development of ideal experiences for children and young audiences for both tangible products and interactive applications. She has collaborated on children’s media and toy design with creative departments in numerous firms, in the US, Europe, and South America. In a variety of design-related contexts. Catalina has served as adjunct faculty, guest speaker, invited author, and international juror. Catalina holds a BFA in Industrial and Digital Design and an MFA in User Experience Design and Research from The Ohio State University.
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Specialties: UX Design | User Interface Design | User Research | Visual Design
Chloe Lloyd
Chloe works for twago—a global online platform that helps professional designers, developers, and translators find work. At twago, she has written about freelancing in many different aspects of design, especially in relation to the fields of Web design and graphic design. Chloe writes for and edits the twago blog.
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Specialties: UX Design | UX Development | Visual Design
Chris Anthony
Since joining Citrix, Chris has pioneered a Creative UX department, as lead Creative, and helped transform the multitude of products from a half billion to a multi-billion dollar annual revenue. He works with more than 75 development teams, educating them in best practices and building standards. To help speed global visual recognition of very technical concepts, Chris created an iconic language. He is currently writing a book about iconic languages to share with the UX community. The breadth of his experience includes design agencies, magazine and document design, technical illustrations for the Navy Nuclear DOD, CMS and dynamic Web systems, print press, and software architecture. Some of Chris’s most visible projects include NBA.com, Xerox.com, GMC and Pontiac.com, LLbean.com, Bausch&Lomb.com, and the first Amazon.com site, while at Digitas, in Boston/NYC. Chris has won more than 40 industry design awards, including multiple Gold and Silver Webbys.
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Specialties: Brand Strategy | Consulting | Information Architecture | Information Design | UX Design | UX Management | UX Strategy | Visual Design
Giovanni Bellocchio
Giovanni has 10 years of experience, working as a freelance graphic artist, photographer, and Web designer in Milano, Italy.
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Specialties: Visual Design
Jonathan Follett
Founding Partner and Creative Director at Hot Knife Design
Principal at Involution Studios, Boston MA USA
At Hot Knife, Jon designs Web sites and applications for a variety of private- and public-sector clients, approaching each project with a strong focus on the use of language and clear communication of the client’s message. He has a passion for typography, its history, and its proper use in design. While Jon’s first design job was for Saul Bellow’s literary magazine, “News from the Republic of Letters,” he has also worked for various Web and multimedia firms in Boston. He was, most recently, lead designer for the Massachusetts Pension Plans Regulatory Agency. Jon co-authored two humorous non-fiction books, “Gray Highway: An American UFO Journey” and “Suburbageddon.” In another life, he plays jazz piano. Jon is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), and the Usability Professionals Association (UPA), Boston Chapter.
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Specialties: Brand Strategy | Consulting | Information Design | User Interface Design | Visual Design
Luke Wroblewski
Chief Design Officer and Cofounder of Bagcheck
Speaker and Author at LukeW Ideation & Design, Silicon Valley CA USA
An internationally recognized digital product design leader who has designed or contributed to software more than 700 million people use worldwide, Luke is currently Chief Design Officer for the newly launched startup Bagcheck. He is also an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital and speaker and author at LukeW Ideation & Design. Before embarking on his entrepreneurial career, he was Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for product alignment and forward-looking, integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, and TV. Formerly Lead User Interface Designer on the platform team at eBay, Luke led the strategic design of new consumer products and internal tools and processes. He got his start at the University of Illinois, where he taught graduate interface design courses and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, birthplace of NCSA Mosaic. Luke is the author of two popular design books: Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability, as well many articles about digital product strategy and design. He is a top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world and a cofounder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
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Specialties: User Interface Design | Visual Design
Michael Griffith
At Bottle Rocket, Michael builds digital brand experiences for mobile devices, balancing user-centered and marketing-centered design approaches. He’s been designing digital media for 21 years, and his strong understanding of information architecture, usability, accessibility, and compliance sets him apart from most creative directors. His mantra is simple: Work with cool people and build cool stuff. Michael’s broad experience includes designing mobile apps, iPad apps, Web sites, microsites, social media, digital media, email, computer-based training, marketing CDs, kiosks, and trade show media. His diverse industry experience spans consumer package goods, entertainment, travel and leisure, telecommunications, finance, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, and B2B. Michael has taught the design and development of new media at the college level and speaks at professional organizations and conferences.
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Specialties: Brand Strategy | UX Design | UX Strategy | Visual Design
Niranjan Jahagirdar
At VMware, Niranjan ensures the content that writers from various geographies create conforms to VMware standards. In addition to mentoring writers, he works with them to provide feedback on user interfaces to various product development teams. Niranjan also runs a network for graphic designers and Web designers called Papertree Studios.
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Specialties: Brand Strategy | Information Architecture | UX Design | User Assistance | Visual Design
Pabini Gabriel-Petit
With more than 20 years of experience at companies like Google, Apple, WebEx, Cisco, BMC Software, and various startups, Pabini provides UX strategy and design consulting services. Pabini was previously Principal UX Architect at BMC Software, VP of User Experience at scanR, Manager of User Experience at WebEx, and Human Interface Engineer at Apple. She has led UX strategy, design, and user research for Web, mobile, and desktop applications for consumers, SMBs, and enterprises, in diverse product domains. Working collaboratively with executives, multidisciplinary product teams, and UX teams, she has envisioned and defined holistic UX design solutions for innovative, award-winning products that achieved success in the marketplace. The diversity of her skills and experience enables Pabini to think outside the box and synthesize innovative UX design solutions for challenging design problems. Pabini is passionate about creating great user experiences that meet users' needs and get business results. A thought leader in the UX community, Pabini was a Founding Director of the Interaction Design Association.
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Specialties: Consulting | Interaction Design | UX Design | UX Management | UX Strategy | Visual Design
