Board of Advisors Biographies
Liz Danzico
New York, NY, USA
Liz Danzico is director of experience strategy for AIGA by day, and editor-in-chief for Boxes and Arrows by night. In both roles, she publishes content on design, large and small, and shapes the experiences people have with that content.
Liz writes, intermittently, at www.bobulate.com.
Andrew Hinton
Valley Forge, PA, USA
Andrew is an Information Architect and a founder of the IA Institute. He is currently working in the User Experience Group at Vanguard around Valley Forge, PA and has previously done IA-related work for companies like American Express, Sealy, Wachovia, Shaw and Kimberly-Clark. He has been designing information systems since 1990, and calling myself an "Information Architect" since 1999.
Read about Andrew at http://www.inkblurt.com.
Jason Hobbs
Johannesburg, South Africa
Jason Hobbs works out of Johannesburg as jh-01 (www.jh-01.com). His time is spent teaching, writing, practicing IA and UX design for commercial, non-profit and arts & culture projects. jh-01 researches issues concerning communal computing and marginalised use in developing contexts. He is a local ambassador for UXnet in SA.
For more on Jason, visit http://www.jh-01.com.
Carolina Leslie
São Paulo, Brazil
Carolina Leslie is an Information Architect and usability analyst in Brazil. She works as the team coordinator at an IA and usability consulting -Try consultoria e pesquisas. She also lead the organization of the first Brazilian IA conference, held in October 2007 in São Paulo.
Carol keeps a blog in Portuguese at www.lulileslie.com.
Peter Merholz
San Francisco, CA, USA
Peter is the President and a founding partner of Adaptive Path. He is an experienced information architect, writer, speaker, and leader in the field of designing for user experience.
Peter has worked with a range of clients, from early stage startups to massive Fortune 500 enterprises, on a range of projects -- user research, design, content strategy and analysis, and combinations of the three.
Peter is a regular speaker at Web design and information architecture conferences, such as ASIS&T's Information Architecture Summits (years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005) and has organized the IA Institute's first and second IDEA conferences. He keynoted both the Institute of Design's 2003 About With and For conference, and 2004 SIGCHI.NL, the premiere Dutch HCI conference.
Peter is an active member of the ASIST and ACM's SIG-CHI. He serves on the organizing committee for the Information Architecture Summit.
For more on Peter, visit his Adaptive Path team page http://www.adaptivepath.com or his personal website www.peterme.com.
Dorelle Rabinowitz
San Francisco, CA, USA
Dorelle Rabinowitz is an artist, a native New Yorker now living in sunny California and a former editor of Boxes and Arrows. She has 20+ years experience as a designer, information architect, producer, and a storyteller in new and old media. Currently, she leads a user experience design team at Google, creating core infrastructures (styles, patterns, resources, methods & practices) to improve efficiency, communication and skills. A graduate of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, Dorelle also holds a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
For more about Dorelle, visit http://www.dorelvis.com.
Leisa Reichelt
London, UK
Leisa is a freelance User Experience Consultant based in London UK. She works with clients from large corporations to start ups through out the UCD process from Design Research through to interaction design and IA. Leisa is particularly interested in social design and collaborative techniques - including the intersection of UCD and Agile methodologies.
Leisa writes at http://www.disambiguity.com.
Samantha Starmer
Seattle, WA, USA
Samantha has been doing work in the field of Information Architecture for nearly ten years, starting with enjoying the craze of the dot com boom while at Amazon.com. After stints working on metadata management software at SchemaLogic and running an Intranet at Microsoft, she is now managing the teams who run REI’s website at http://rei.com.
Lou Rosenfeld
New York, NY, USA
Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant and Rosenfeld Media's founder and publisher. He was president and co-founder of Argus Associates, and is co-author of "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web". Lou co-founded the Information Architecture Institute and UXnet, the user experience network).
Lou blogs regularly at http://louisrosenfeld.com.
Don Turnbull
Austin, TX, USA
Don Turnbull is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Don's teaching and research focuses on designing Web information architectures, information systems analysis, Web searching and Knowledge Management Systems. He is currently developing browser usage tracking software as well as applications for personal digital library resource discovery.
Don received his doctorate from the University of Toronto focusing on Knowledge Discovery (Data Mining) for Informetric and Behavioral Models of Web Use. Don has also been a consultant specializing in search technologies and information analytics. Previously, Don was the Director of Advanced Development at Outride, Inc., a Xerox PARC spin-off company acquired by Google.
For more on Don, visit http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/.
Dave Weinberger
Cambridge, MA, USA
David Weinberger is a technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and is working on a book called Everything is Miscellaneous, to be released by Time Books in Winter '07. David's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.
A philosopher by training, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, taught college from 1980-1986, was a gag writer for the comic strip "Inside Woody Allen" from 1976-1983. He became a marketing consultant and executive at several high tech companies, and currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He's been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He's written for the "Fortune 500" of business and tech journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Guardian, and Wired.
For more on David, visit http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/index.html.
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