Ann McMeekin
Previous Presentations:
BarCamp London 7
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Inclusive New Media Design Workshop
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Margot Bloomstein
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Margot Bloomstein is a content strategist at ISITE Design. She focuses on crafting brand-appropriate user experiences to help clients effectively engage their target audiences and project key messages with consistency and clarity. Her experience encompasses a range of industries and both traditional and social media.
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Speaker/participant in the inaugural Content Strategy Consortium at the 2009 IA Summit
Speaker in the MITX (Massachusetts Interactive Technology Exchange) UX Speaker Series
Speaker in the NHUPA (New Hampshire Usability Professionals Association) monthly speaker series
Whitney Hess
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Whitney Hess is a user experience design consultant based in New York City. She helps make stuff easy and pleasurable to use.
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Cindy Alvarez
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Cindy Alvarez is serious about launching great products.
More consumer feedback - faster risk mitigation - rapid prototyping and iteration. Cindy is passionate about helping companies to use these practices in an agile, cost-effective way to build MORE SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS.
Her product management and design work is used by dozens of enterprise companies and millions of end consumers, across such diverse industries as computer gaming, finance, media, community sites, and e-commerce.
Previous Presentations:
StartupCamp 2008
She's Geeky 2009
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Justine Sanderson
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I give talks about various aspects of the user experience and usability, focusing mostly on human psychology & cognition.
About Me
Justine runs her own user experience consultancy - Userfaction - and wears many hats. Part usability consultant, part information architect, and part interaction designer, she’s helped a range of companies organise their information and develop more user-friendly websites and applications. Clients include the University of Auckland, the House of Travel, the Bank of New Zealand and the Ministry of Health.
Previous Presentations:
Educause Australasia
UPA Auckland
Auckland Web Meetup
KiwiFoo
Web Standards Wellington
Auckland Test Professionals Network (TPN)
Girl Geek Dinners
Various guest lectures at local universities
Amy Vickers
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Amy serves as community and thought leader for the Enterprise Solutions Practice. The practice creates B2B and B2E workplace solutions and is dedicated to the ideal that work should be humane.
Prior to heading the Enterprise Solutions Practice, Amy was a leader in the Experience Strategy discipline. Her areas of expertise include business innovation strategy, emerging and social technologies, and information visualization. Select clients include Bain & Company, Best Buy, Citi, EMC, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, Nike, and Starwood.
Previous Presentations:
The ROI of Enterprise 2.0 (Enterprise 2.0, Spring 2009)
The Collaboration Imperative (Enterprise 2.0, Spring 2008; Harvard Business School, Fall 2007)
The Social Imperative of Microfinance and Mobile Banking (SXSW, Spring 2007)
Laura Porto Stockwell
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Laura Porto Stockwell is a digital media professional with more than 15 years of experience developing digital brand, content and social media strategies. As Senior Director, Digital Strategy of WONGDOODY, Laura is responsible for developing and implementing digital marketing strategies that embrace innovative approaches to reaching consumers and increasing business effectiveness. Prior to joining WONGDOODY, Laura was the VP, Digital Strategy + User Experience at Publicis in the West, and prior to Publicis, was an Experience Director it the New York and Seattle offices of Razorfish.
Previous Presentations:
Speaker, Ad Club Seattle, "Beyond Social Media" (November 2008)
Guest Lecturer, University of Washington, IA Institute (2008, 2009)
Speaker, Microsoft MIX, “The Future of Media and the Web” (March 2006)
Kim McGalliard
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Karen McGrane
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Previous Presentations:
From Business to Buttons
Information Architecture Summit
CHI