Like a lot of folks, I find the term “user experience design” awkward and unsatisfying, at once vague and grandiose, and not accurately descriptive of what I do. Too often it seems like a term untethered, in search of something — anything — we might use it to name. And yet I often call myself…
Jonathan Korman

A former consultant at Cooper, now The UX Guy at Riverbed Technology. Invented the abbreviation "IxD", which shows you not that he's influential, but that he's old.