Panama City, Panama
Jorge is an information architect and web designer from Central America. He founded and leads BootStudio (www.bootstudio.com), one of the first web consultancies in his part of the world. Jorge is also an active member of the global IA/UX community, and strives to build bridges between designers and users from different cultures.
For more on Jorge, visit www.jarango.com.
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.
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 www.jh-01.com.
Hamburg, Germany
James Kalbach holds a degree in library science from Rutgers University, as well as a master's in music theory and composition. He is currently a Human Factors Engineer with LexisNexis and previously served as head of information architecture with Razorfish Germany. He is an active speaker and author on information architecture and usability in Germany, where he lives. He is currently taking a break from his role as assistant editor on Boxes and Arrows to write a book on designing web navigation.
For more on James, visit.
San Francisco Bay area, CA, USA
Erin Malone, editor emeritus for Boxes and Arrows, is currently Director of Design for the Platforms Product Group at Yahoo! Her team is currently responsible for developing platform solutions and tools for the Yahoo! Network across several major initiatives including, Community, Personalization, Membership and Network Standards. This also includes the Public Pattern Library and internal brand guidelines, pattern libraries, cross-network research and a knowledge management system to house the guidedlines and toolkits for the entire User Experience group. Before Yahoo!, she was a Product Design Director at AOL (America Online) and worked on such applications as AIM, WinAmp, AOL Radio, AOL Media Player, AOL Wallet, My AOL, various Community products and other things deemed important to the company. Prior to AOL, she was Creative Director at AltaVista, where she managed a team of Information Architects and Designers working on the AltaVista Live portal and various other web applications. Other work has included being the first and only IA/Interaction Designer at Zip2, working on the first generation Adobe web site, redesigning the San Jose Repertory Theatre web site, as well as designing GUI for several projects at Eastman Kodak company and early AOL Greenhouse partners. She has plied her trade in interactive and digital information spaces, including the web since 1993. Prior to that she worked in some crazy field called Advertising where she was indoctrinated into the world of Brand and Marketing.
Erin has a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University, Greenville NC and an MFA in Graphic/Information Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY.
In her spare time, she takes a lot of photographs, writes for Boxes and Arrows, cycles, plays guitar and mandolin, writes music and keeps multiple websites including The Dr. Leslie Project a web interpretation of her Masters Thesis; a Photolog and Design Writings, in which she talks about Design, Design History, Information Architecture, Design Theory and Design Criticism
For more on Erin, visithttp://www.emdezine.com/.
San Francisco Bay area, CA, USA
Harry Max has been on the forefront of Internet-based application design and development since 1994, when he co-founded Virtual Vineyards (wine.com) and created the user experience for the first secure shopping cart.
In early 2000, Harry founded an Internet-based software company and developed the Active Listening System, which was used by Pyra Labs (Blogger - acquired by Google), Kontiki (acquired by Verisign), the Direct Marketing Association, Foveon, Handspring, and Skype; and is still in use at companies including QuickArrow.
Harry has been fortunate to have worked with some of the finest companies in Silicon Valley, including: Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, O'Reilly and Associates, and DreamWorks Animation where he ran the Web Communications Group.
Harry is the author of "Skype: The Definitive Guide"
For more on Harry, visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/harrymax
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Edmonton, Canada
Since 1997 Jess has focused his career on understanding and developing positive user experiences for his clients and their customers. Jess draws on sources ranging from social sciences and behavioural research to gaming, market analysis, and future trends to generate client insights that drive innovation and create better customer experiences. His value-centered approach grounds strategy at the intersection of business goals and customer goals to produce return on investment for clients, and 'return on experience' for individuals.
Jess regularly writes and speaks at conferences about user experience, design thinking, and innovation. He has contributed ideas and material for several user experience books, including Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville's Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Ed.; and Jesse James Garrett's The Elements of User Experience. His work appears as a case study in Designing Websites for Every Audience by Ilise Benun. He also organizes CanUX, the annual Canadian User Experience Workshop in Banff, Alberta.
Jess co-founded the Information Architecture Institute, the international professional organization for information architecture practitioners, and recently finished a term on the IAI Board of Directors.
In 2003, he founded nForm User Experience, a boutique consultancy that counts Comcast, Ancestry.com, and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute as clients. Jess lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and works with clients across North America.
He blogs about business, design, and innovation at bplusd.org.
New York, NY, USA
Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant and Rosenfeld Media's (http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com) founder and publisher. He was president and co-founder of Argus Associates, and is co-author of "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/infoarch3/index.html). Lou co-founded the Information Architecture Institute and UXnet, the user experience network (http://www.uxnet.org).
Lou blogs regularly at http://louisrosenfeld.com.
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/.
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.