Thank you to everyone who has contributed knowledge to Boxes and Arrows.
Marian Mota
Marian Mota is an Interaction Designer at SoftServe. He has 6 years of experience in digital and interaction design and is dedicated to creating easy to use and enticing interfaces. Marian holds a Master of Information Technology degree from Ukrainian Academy of Printing. He is extremely passionate about design and making the interaction between people and machines enjoyable and effortless. If you are interested in reading more by Marian please visit the SoftServe United blog, where he is a frequent contributor.
marianne sweeny
Marianne Sweeny / @msweeny SR Search Strategist Marianne considers herself fortunate to be able to combine her passions for search and user experience at Portent Inc (www.portent.com) where she focuses on the user experience factors of SEO for client sites. Springtime finds her teaching Introduction to Information Retrieval at the University of Washington iSchool. She keeps trying to find a coding language to master.
Marina Lin
Marina Lin is an Interaction Designer for Mobile Apps at Cars.com. She is also the co-founder of SerenadeMe, a custom song start-up based in Chicago. She has recently contributed a chapter to the textbook "Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication." Her work has also appeared in Intercom, User Experience Magazine, and Business Communication Quarterly.
Mark Pedersen
Mark has been developing for the web since 2001, always with a penchant for open-source technologies such as PHP. Since 2010 he has been working full time with app development, these days being employed at Nodes, a leading European app agency. He also regularly contributes to WordPress and other open-source projects.
Mark Richman
Mark Richman is an award-winning User Experience Consultant in the Atlanta area. He has designed applications and websites for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Georgia Power, Delta, AT&T and many other firms known primarily by their initials. He is also a songwriter and a recovering mainframe systems programmer.
Marla Olsen
was a co-founder of Boxes and Arrows, and is a principal user experience designer with Shutterfly. She previously was an interaction designer at Yahoo! an information architect with The Capital Group and principal of Interaction by Design. Marla has done award-winning work for a variety of companies, from dotcom start-ups, to Hollywood studios, such as Disney, to Fortune 500 companies, including Nestle and Transamerica. She has taught at UCLA Extension, and written about and spoken at numerous conferences about user experience design issues.
Martin Polley
Martin Polley (@martinpolley) is a hybrid interaction designer/technical writer at IFN Solutions in Israel, mostly for their client, Intel. He doesn't believe that designers should code, but that they benefit greatly from being able to do so. To that end, he has created a course, Livetyping, to help UX designers learn how to prototype in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Marty Gage
Prior to co-founding SonicRim in 1999, Marty spent ten years at Fitch Inc. defining user and market research to support the development of products, brands, and retail communications and spaces.
Masood Nasser
Masood Nasser works as an Information Architect for one of the leading software firms in Mumbai. In his current role, he is helping shape the user experience of a health care insurance product
Matt Queen
Matt Queen is a Drawer, Traveler, Product Designer, and Coffee Drinker. He is Head of UX at creativelive.com
Matthew C. Clarke
Matthew C. Clarke is a technology strategist and software product manager with a long-standing concern about the human and social impacts of technology. He currently holds the position of Business Area Executive with Rocket Software, with responsibility for the CorVu product.
Maureen Kelly
Maureen has designed enterprise and consumer software for TiVo, Kana, and other companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's currently working as a Senior UI Designer at Guidewire. She also designed (and continues to redesign) Giftie Giftie, a personal project that lets people create their own online gift registries and share them with friends and family. (Caution: Beta!) She lives in Redwood City, CA, with her husband (Jack) and daughter (Annie, 4).
Max Lord
Max Lord is a Boston-based designer and musician. Since graduating from MIT in 1995, he has interleaved enterprise-sized web projects for household names with independent music and sound-art experiments. At Berklee College of Music, he was instrumental (ba-da-chinzzz!) in launching the first online music school, Berkleemusic.com. He is now part of LocaModa, the mobile technology start-up that's bringing Wiffiti into the world. His personal site is at Wire Sounds.
Meg Cole
is a graphic designer-turned writer-turned Webbie-turned information architect. She recently joined the content team at the National Association of REALTORS®, which will soon begin a massive inventory and redesign of the association's 400,000+ Web pages. She can be reached at mcole (at) megcole.com.
Meg Hourihan
is the co-founder and former Director of Development at Pyra. She now works as an independent web consultant and freelance writer. You can reach her at
meg (at) megnut.com.
Personal URL: http://www.megnut.com
Quote: "To say you don't know is the beginning of knowing." - Chinese Proverb
Meg Peters
Meg Peters is an information architect in the User Experience group at Marriott International. Since 1999 she has worked as an IA both internally and as a consultant, helping a variety of government, association, and private organizations provide customers with better web experiences. Past clients include the Department of Health & Human Services; IMF/World Bank; the National Association of Realtors®; the American Association of Museums; the City of Richmond, Virginia; and Upscale Resale, a furniture consignment store. In past lives Meg was a graphic designer and a writer for print, having majored in Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design. After seven years in advertising at The Washington Post newspaper, she began designing and writing for the web, which eventually led to IA.
Mia Northrop
Mia has over 10 years experience marketing and developing products and experiences for online businesses. She applies her passion for finding the sweet spot between user-centered design principles and business objectives to clients as diverse as Ford, Merrill Lynch, EMC and XM Satellite Radio. Prior to joining Avenue A Razorfish, Mia worked for a who’s who of Australian internet companies including Fairfax Digital, Sensis, CitySearch Australia and SEEK. Her research interests include how visceral video game designs can translate to web experiences, and how game design methodologies can inform other digital design processes.
Michael A. Morgan
Michael has worked in IT within the financial and business-service industries for almost 20 years. A generalist, Michael worked as a software engineer, product manager, and business analyst prior to beginning his career as a user researcher nine years ago. He conducts research during all phases of the product-development lifecycle and is currently supporting Scrum teams that are building security-management software for ADP’s HR enterprise software products. His true passion is understanding and telling the story of the user to influence product roadmaps. Michael has written articles on user research for UX Matters, UX Planet as well as LinkedIn. When he is not working, he enjoys running, music, and reading all things UX. Follow Mike: @mmorganUX. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-morgan-mba-ms-cua-945945/
Michael Angeles
an information specialist and site developer at Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories in the Information Solutions department. He maintains a weblog of information architecture news at michael (at) studioid.com.
Michael Beavers
Michael is an independent digital strategy director for several agencies in San Francisco and Atlanta. A digital strategist by training and industry veteran with marketing experiences, enterprise portals, communities, and Web applications, Michael has an appreciation for thoughtful, empathetic design of all stripes, from interfaces to devices, controls, public architecture, urban design, transportation, and land use. His peer-reviewed journal, http://www.physicalinterface.com, is a new community of everyday design enthusiasts from technology, user experience design, architecture, human factors, New Urbanism, product design and academia. Follow his tweets at: http://twitter.com/michaeldbeavers