Sharron Rush
Keynote Speaker
Sharron is the co-founder and Executive Director of Knowbility, a nonprofit organization that grew from the first Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) in Austin in 1998. Sharron leads the effort More....
Session: 2012 Opening Keynote
Stephen Anderson
Keynote Speaker
Stephen P. Anderson is a product strategy and design consultant who helps large companies create valuable customer experiences. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Stephen spent more than More....
Session: 2012 Friday Keynote
Adam Hansen
Keynote Speaker
Adam Hansen is Rackspace's Small Business Advocate. He has helped small to medium sized businesses move to cloud for the last 4 years. Adam helps drive awareness around the benefits of cloud More....
Session: Is the Cloud Almighty?
Susan Mercer
Susan comes from Bentley University, where she worked in the Design and Usability Center, while earning her M.S. in Human Factors in Information Design. Prior to that, she worked as a Product Manager for Constant More....
Session: Maximizing Your Moderation Game
Kevin Schumacher
Kevin Schumacher is the UX Lead, driving the overall User Experience vision for CollabNet’s Cloud Service Development Tools. With a background in traditional art and design, Kevin has more than a decade of More....
Session: Back to the Drawing Board, Again and Again and Again...
Jonathan Atkins
Jonathan is 12 year Dell veteran and the Director of User Experience for Dell’s Global Site Design team. Jonathan leads Dell’s UX strategy, with a sharp focus on creating transformative digital experiences More....
Session: Lessons from DELL's Design Library: Getting 7 Million Pages on the Same Page.Kirk Ballou
Kirk serves as CEO/Chief Architect at Touch Titans. He leads a team of award winning designers and developers which support every major mobile platform. The worlds largest handset makers, carriers, CNN, Nat More....
Session: One Site Fits All: Responsive UX
Matt Baxter
Matt is a UX designer and developer at projekt202. Matt has a unique combination of skills in web development, interaction design, and visual design. With great creativity and a strong technical background, he More....
Session: Use Web Skills to Build Mobile Apps
Teresa Brazen
Teresa is a Strategist for Cooper. She takes cues from her experiences across a broad spectrum of disciplines (film, art, improv, non-profit, communications, program management, design) to inspire unique curriculum More....
Session: Intentional Environments: Designing a Culture of Co-Creation
Jim Carlsen-Landy
Jim has focused his career in user experience as a developer, designer, evangelist, and manager for more than 25 years. He is a change junkie, inciting and nurturing user-centered evolution at every More....
Session: Managing UX Design(ers)
Dustin DiTommaso
Dustin is a designer of things big and small; digital, ethereal and tangible; pragmatic and theoretical; services, products and more. He is particularly drawn to mobile platforms and touch interfaces, multi-channel More....
Session: Beyond Gamification: Designing Behavior Change Games
Ezra Englebardt
Ezra Englebardt is a Senior Brand Planner at SapientNitro in Boston. In his role there (and other agencies prior) he has helped brands like Crest, Oral-B, Tide, Aflac, Staples, Dunkin Donuts, and LensCrafters More....
Session: Defining the New Partnership
Giovanni Gallucci
Giovanni lives a double-life. On one hand he is a recovering .NET programmer turned online brand strategist and internet journeyman. Giovanni develops strategy for online marketing and audience development More....
Session: Social Media: The Indy Musician & Filmmaker’s Game Changer
Austin Govella
Austin is an experienced, dynamic presenter who presented most recently at SXSWi 2011. He's also presented at several IA Summits and local groups and run workshops for companies and conferences.
He's More....
Session: UX Army Field Guide
Morgan Hanson
Morgan Hanson is the Senior Interactive Producer at Moroch. As a graduate of OU, you would be surprised to see the thousands of pictures that Morgan has taken of Oklahoma, animals, and scuba diving. More....
Session: Herding Cats: Creative Personalities
Aaron Hursman
Aaron is a passionate user-advocate that is lucky enough to do what he loves for a living. As a user experience architect, he applies user-centered design principles and techniques including user research, More....
Session: Pencils Down: Stop Designing, Start Developing
Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy has been at the forefront of Design and User Experience for years - with a passion for what's next. Directing User Experience for international brands, Jeremy has a knack for connecting Design, development More....
Session: Designing for Sensors & the Future of Experiences
Svetlana Kouznetsova
Svetlana Kouznetsova (Sveta) is a NYC-based web professional. She has a BFA in Graphic Design, an MS in Internet Technology, and over a decade of project experience with national/international companies and More....
Session: Beyond Captions: Universal Access, Universal Appeal
Dan Kuenster
Dan Kuenster has thirty years experience in the animation industry including positions at Disney and Don Bluth Studios. At Walt Disney Studios, he trained under the guidance of Eric Larson, one of the More....
Session: Animation & Games in Schools
Leeanne Locken
This Texas gal has a heart of gold. And her passion for her work shows! LeeAnne was born in Pasadena, Texas and was raised by her grandparents in Houston. She attended the University of Houston before moving More....
Session: Beyond Your Agent: Social Media for Radio/FIlm/TV Talent
Preston McCauley
Preston is Senior UX Designer at E-Miles, and Principal of Clear Site Designs, a Dallas-based consulting firm that specializes in SEO, social strategy, and business user experience design. He strongly More....
Session: Everyday Conflicts: Strategic Paths To Successful Conversations
Will Nicholson
Will Nicholson was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, far from Hollywood in both the geographical sense as well as metaphorically. After a brief stint at a junior college that underwhelmed his expectations, More....
Session: Life of a Visual FX Shot: From Script to Screen
Timothy Parcell
A Senior Experience Designer at SapientNitro’s Boston office, Timothy Parcell works to craft elegant solutions to client business problems that people want to use. Currently, the user experience lead for More....
Session: Defining the New Partnership
Tomer Sharon
Tomer Sharon is a User Experience Researcher at Google Search and author of the book, It's Our Research. He founded and led UPA Israel and is the co-founder and organizer of leanUXmachine, a weekend of More....
Session: Achieving Failure: Alienating Stakeholders from Great User Experience Research
Marcelo Somers
Marcelo is modern day "Renaissance Man" with many interests including: Technology, Photography, User Experience Design, Video, Economics, Psychology, Music, and Business Strategy. His many interests help More....
Session: Core Focus: What Job Are You Doing?
Sara Summers
Sara Summers is a User Experience Evangelist for Microsoft based out of Austin, TX. Sara recently coauthored a book for experience designers, entitled Dynamic Prototyping, on bookshelves now. She has a More....
Session: Crafting UX in a Touch First World
Sharon Torres
Sharon Torres is an award-winning, seasoned creative leader with a solid background in print and interactive design. With over 17 years of professional experience in creative services, marketing, More....
Session: Overcoming Innovation Skepticism; Getting Design Thinking in Your Company
Angelos Tzelepis
Angelos Tzelepis stumbled into the language industry via a job listing in the classifieds (!!) in 1995, and bought the company in 1997. In 2007 he brought his client roster to LinguaLinx More....
Session: Designing Documents for Translations and Localization
Wilkey Wong
Wilkey is the Training and Research Manager at Tobii Technology. He has advanced degrees in engineering and education and has conducted graduate research in developmental psychology at the University More....
Session: Essentials of Eye Tracking on Mobile Devices
Rachel Youens
Rachel checks into 15 apps on a daily basis, mused on NFC in the New York Times, marketed apps to the top of the store, and cataloged more then 300 pieces of clothing into her iPhone More....
Session: Near Field Communication: A New Interaction FrontierRuss Unger
Russ Unger is a User Experience professional in the Chicago area. He is co-author of the book “A Project Guide to UX Design” for Peachpit Press (Voices That Matter) and is co-authoring a More....
Session: From Muppets to Mastery: Core UX Principles from Mr. Jim Henson
Ashley Eaton
Ashley is the Digital Librarian for Dell’s Design Library, serving a global audience of internal and external designers and content producers working on Dell.com, the world’s second-largest ecommerce website.
After previous adventures More....
Session: Lessons from DELL's Design Library: Getting 7 Million Pages on the Same Page.Jared Spool
Keynote Speaker
Jared M. Spool is the founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world. If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably More....
Session: 2012 Closing Keynote
Dana Chisnell
Workshop Leader
Dana 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 has observed hundreds of study participants for dozens More....
Session: TBD--Dana Chisnell Talk
Keith Alcorn
For 30 years Keith has been involved in all facets of animation. In 1987 Keith Alcorn co-founded DNA Productions, Inc. DNA provided script to screen services for the commercial and corporate More....
Session: Coming soon
Rahel Anne Bailie
Rahel Anne Bailie is an ntegrator of content strategy, requirements analysis, information architecture, and content management to increase ROI of product lifecycle content. Aficionado of content structure More....
Session: The Big C: Content Strategy as Design Framework
Hassan Bawab
Hassan Bawab is the Founder and CEO of Magic Logix, an interactive Digital Marketing Agency in Dallas, TX. Magic Logix combines dynamic website development, professional website design, SEO and integrated online More....
Session: SEO Best Practices for HTML5
Darrell Benatar
Darrell Benatar, a serial entrepreneur, founded Surprise.com in 1999 and hired Dave. Darrell was not a believer in usability testing until he saw Dave doing it. He was shocked at the problems people were More....
Session: Top Usability Mistakes: Lessons Learned from 100,000 Usability Tests
Brett Briley
Brett Briley (a.k.a. “Spark”) was born in East Lansing, MI, and now lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife and son. Like most artists, he describes himself as being born “with pencil in hand.” He graduated from More....
Session: Digital Sculpting with Z Brush
Doug CohenMiller
Doug CohenMiller is a graphic designer and communications professional living and working in San Antonio, Texas. Currently he works as the in-house designer and social media specialist at the International More....
Session: Create Happiness as an In-House Designer
Joe Dyer
Joe Dyer is the Manager of Sabre Travel Network's User Experience team. With nearly 15 years of experience in visual, interactive, and service design, Joe has led or designed hundreds of solutions More....
Session: Video Ethnography: Industrial Strength
Brandon Gadoci
Brandon, a Senior User Experience Consultant for Improving Enterprises, is known as a guy who gets a lot done. Despite the many demands that come along with being a two-time dad, a CrossFit addict, husband, More....
Session: Getting to the Try: Stop Making Excuses
Marc Gilpin
Marc Gilpin has over 12 years experience in developing animated, interactive content for all stages of production, from conceptualization to final product. Marc has worn many hats, including the More....
Session: Animation & Games in Schools
Michael Griffith
Michael Griffith has a simple philosophy, "All I want to do is work with cool people and build cool sh#t!" Brands live in the minds of the beholder and are shaped through interaction. Michael builds brand experiences. More....
Session: Behind the App: The Making of Three Hall of Fame Apps
Bill Harrison
Bill is a User Experience Architect for Dell, Inc., with an affinity for design and content. He has created and maintained design libraries for two Fortune 200 companies - Dell and USAA (United Services More....
Session: Lessons from DELL's Design Library: Getting 7 Million Pages on the Same Page.
Caleb Jenkins
Caleb makes software more awesome! Host, cameraman and editor for CommunityCast; as a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist and Impoving Enterprises Principal Consultant. Caleb More....
Session: Scaling Scrum with UX
Ben Judy
Ben Judy (benjudy.com) is a user experience designer who takes it personally when the Web doesn't work well for real people. He's also a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+), and he hosts the DFW UX podcast (dfwux.com). More....
Session: Axis & Allies: The Impact of Design Thinking on World War II
Mark Kraemer
Mark is a business strategy and user experience design consultant with over 18 years experience working with Fortune 500 clients. Mark uses his strategy skills and visual design talent to create More....
Session: Sketching Matters
John Lloyd
John Lloyd works at St.Jude's Hospital in Tennessee. John is comfortable developing in Drupal. John focuses on designing for mobile and developing with Drupal. Currently, John has been working on designing interesting More....
Session: Content Design in Physical Spaces
Jim Machajewski
As the Associate User Experience Director, Jim currently manages a team of User Experience Architects within the larger Global Site Design (GSD) team of Dell, Inc. He is responsible for oversight, direction More....
Session: Lessons from DELL's Design Library: Getting 7 Million Pages on the Same Page.
Catharine McNally
If a feature of a website separates audiences, particularly those with disabilities, Catharine McNally views it with a critical eye to find better solutions. While communicating this to web developers, she More....
Session: Panel: Future of Accessibility
Brad Nunally
Brad Nunnally is User Experience Designer, who has helped clients in the financial, health care management, public utilities, and pharmaceutical management industries. He provides them with deep insight into More....
Session: Myth of Paying Attention
Thomas Phinney
Thomas Phinney is specializes in fonts and typography. While he is best known for my technical knowledge and business skills, Thomas is also a typeface designer, forensic typographer, historian, and academic. More....
Session: CSS3 Web Typography Changes Everything
Nathan Smith
Nathan is a Principal UI Architect at projekt202. He considers himself to be somewhere between a left and right-brained thinker. He equally enjoys thinking through wireframes and interaction design, or More....
Session: Use Web Skills to Build Mobile Apps
Karl Steiner
Dr. Karl Steiner is an expert in user experience, with over 15 years professional experience in design strategy, user research, usability evaluation, and UX design for interactive systems. Before joining More....
Session: Persona Management from Cradle to Grave
Ken Tabor
Ken is an innovative veteran software engineer with 18 years of experience developing consumer-driven products on cutting-edge technologies. Currently serving as a member of Sabre’s “Enterprise Mobility More....
Session: Surviving CSS by Thriving with SAS
Tyler Travitz
Tyler Travitz is a senior interactive designer at GolinHarris and leads the agency’s design and development efforts. Tyler provides strategic, creative and technical juice for GolinHarris’ award-winning campaigns across More....
Session: Designing for Real-Time Marketing
Luke Walter
Luke Walter is an agile coach at CollabNet, Inc., helping organizations transition from conventional planning and metrics, identify impediments to success, and achieve cultural transformation. With a More....
Session: Back to the Drawing Board, Again and Again and Again...
Michael Woods
As a Technology Evangelist, Michael Woods brings a deep understanding of how technology can be used as part of communication, as part of business, and as part of the human experience. His natural interest More....
Session: Augmented Reality: Utility Beats Hype










