Contributor Bios
Tamara Adlin is the founder and president of adlin, inc., a customer experience consulting company located in Seattle. Tamara is the co-author of The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (with John Pruitt, Microsoft), which has been highly recommended by Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Alan Cooper.
Stephen P. Anderson is a speaker and consultant based out of Dallas. He spends unhealthy amounts of time thinking about design, psychology, and leading intrapreneurial teams—topics he frequently speaks about at national and international events.
Dana Chisnell has helped thousands of people learn how to make better design decisions by giving them the skills they need to gain knowledge about users. She’s the coauthor, with Jeff Rubin, of Handbook of Usability Testing, Second Edition (Wiley), and writes a blog about user research and usability testing techniques at www.usabilitytestinghowto.blogspot.com.
Nathan Curtis has been practicing design since 1996, with interests that include information architecture, interaction design, usability research, front-end development, and an obsession he shares with his partner—documenting and communicating design ideas.
Liz Danzico is chair and co-founder of the MFA in Interaction Design Program at the School of Visual Arts. She is an independent consultant, columnist for interactions magazine, on the boards of Rosenfeld Media and Design Ignites Change, and writes at Bobulate.com.
Christopher Fahey is a founding partner and user experience director at Behavior Design, an award-winning interaction design consultancy. He also writes and speaks about user experience, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ MFA in Interaction Design Program.
James Melzer is a user experience designer for EightShapes in Washington, DC, specializing in design documentation, information architecture, and interaction design. He has been a researcher, a developer, a librarian, and a project manager, but his first love has always been design.
Steve Mulder is VP, Experience Strategy, at Isobar, where he transforms customer insights and business and brand strategies into engaging online experiences that drive results. He is the author of The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web and a regular speaker at web conferences on topics such as digital strategy, social media, customer research, information architecture, interaction design, and usability.
Donna Spencer a freelance information architect, interaction designer, and writer for her company, Maadmob. That’s a fancy way of saying she plans how to present the things you see on your computer screen, so that they’re easy to understand, engaging, and compelling.
Russ Unger is a User Experience Director for Happy Cog, a web design firm in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. He is co-author of the book A Project Guide to UX Design from Peachpit Press (Voices That Matter) and is co-authoring a book on guerilla research methods with Todd Zaki Warfel due out in 2011.