Authors

Olga Sanchez-Howard

Olga Sanchez-Howard is a User Experience consultant. Her focus is in providing information architecture , interaction design, and usability consulting, to design a better customer experience.

Parrish Hanna

Parrish Hanna is VP, Director of Experience Planning at Arc Worldwide. Previously, Parrish served as President of HannaHodge, a groundbreaking user experience firm that he co-founded in 1998. For over a decade, he has spent the better part of each week planning better experiences for humans and refining the process to do so. He considers himself fortunate to have worked with brilliant people toward making the products of enlightened companies like Cadillac, Ford, Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, IBM, Sears, Intel, and Xerox easy and pleasurable to use. Parrish has a B.A. in Industrial Design, an M.A. in Human-Computer Interaction, and a handful of patents and industry awards. He's a regular publisher and speaker on issues related to experience design.

Patrick C. Walsh

Now with the BBC I have been involved with Quality management in the automotive industry for more than 25 years and I came to IA through producing online Quality and Environmental manuals for automotive component supply companies. I have developed and expanded the concept of the online manual to include relevant internal and external information required to (hopefully) maintain and increase the organisation's effectiveness. I have realised that the effectiveness of the system relies on how the information is formatted, linked and structured. Over the past few years I have developed an enterprise information system for a large, complex local government department. I am presently employed at the BBC in Future Media and Technology as an information architect looking at intranets and the semantic web.

Patrick Dubroy

Patrick Dubroy is a software developer and art school dropout. He's interested in the interaction between people and the things we build: programming languages, human-computer interaction, graphic design, industrial design, architecture, urban planning, and more. Patrick writes about programming, usability, and design at http://dubroy.com/blog/.

Patrick Stapleton

Principal Applications Engineer at Oracle within the User Experience organisation. The Applications Unlimited team of which I am a member looks at ways to add value (from a user experience perspective) to the broad array of Oracle's acquired technologies.

Paul Adams

Senior User Experience Researcher at Google. I'm the research lead for sociability, and I work with teams building products and features for the social web. I've previously worked as a User Experience consultant at Flow (working with the BBC, The Guardian, Vodafone, London Underground, and others), and as an Industrial Designer at Dyson. I'm writing a book about the social web due out in late summer, and am speaking at the IA Summit in early April. http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/pauladams http://twitter.com/Padday

Paul Matthews

Paul is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK where he teaches UX, web development and information management. His research interests include philosophical and psychological aspects of online knowledge exchange and social question-answering.

Paul Nattress

is a former United Kingdom-based information architect, who specialises in web content and sees IA as an invaluable skill set. He has worked in-house for several UK FTSE 100 companies. He loves IA, usability, web content, accessibility and his PlayStation 2. He can be reached at http://www.ia-uk.co.uk

Paul Nuschke

Paul Nuschke is a researcher with 10 years of experience improving the interaction between people and technology, from websites and applications to smartphones and biomedical devices. His work has been presented at seminars and conferences including UPA, CHI, and HCI International.

Peter Gremett

Peter Gremett, is an XD project leader, team motivator, and designer. He is passionate about design and creativity and understands that being a designer is more than just a job or a paycheck. He is currently employed at Intuit and lives in the bay area with his family. Peter keeps a blog http://designjedi.wordpress.com/ on his design musings.

Peter Jones

Peter is managing principal of Redesign Research, a consulting practice for information product design, independent research and innovation strategy, located in Dayton and Toronto. As a consultant, Peter organizes and conducts field, cognitive, and usability research on information practices (or knowledge work that uses and transforms information artifacts). Most of his design work is for information services for professional practices, such as medicine, law, research, or business. Dr. Jones is also managing partner of Dialogic Design International, which has developed and facilitates an integrated problem solving process called Structured Dialogic Design. SDD is a revitalized adaptation of the venerable Interactive Management process used for engaging mixed-stakeholder groups in participatory redesign for solutions to wicked sociotechnical problems, social change, and complex systems.

Peter Merholz

Peter Morville

Peter Morville is widely recognized as a founding father of information architecture. He co-authored the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and has consulted with such organizations as Harvard, IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo!. Peter is president of Semantic Studios, co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute, and a faculty member at the University of Michigan. His work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter's latest book, Ambient Findability, was published in 2005.

He blogs at findability.org.

Rachel Grossman

Rachel Grossman is a UX researcher and information architect. Fascinated by the role technology plays in culture, she believes in the power of curiosity and well-timed, well-phrased questions to lead design efforts. She has helped a number of non-profit and government clients to improve their communication and technology efforts over the last two years. Prior to becoming a designer, she served in the Peace Corps (Ukraine) and then went on to develop and implement anti-corruption and governance programming in Russia and Ukraine. She has a Master's in Social Research from the European University at Saint Petersburg and a B.A. in English and Global Media from the University of Michigan. Her current interests are in the areas of design operations and cross organizational collaboration. Say hello on Twitter @radicallyrach!

Rachel Lovinger

Rachel Lovinger is a Content Strategy Lead for Razorfish. Before that she worked in online publishing for almost seven years. She’s interested in relevance, findability, signification, and inherently funny words. Rachel was doing Content Strategy long before she realized it was an actual field.

Rahel Anne Bailie

Rahel Anne Bailie provides content strategies for business impact for clients who care about content as corporate assets. This includes the architecture, interaction, and usability of text, visuals, and other intentionally designed elements on websites and web apps. She operates Intentional Design Inc, a Vancouver, BC consultancy focused on the sweet spot where content management, content development, and user experience meet.

Rameet Chawla

Rameet Chawla is the founder of Fueled, an award-winning design and development company based in New York and London, and the founder of the Fueled Collective, a co-working space comprised of more than 35 startups in Manhattan. Combining a decade of experience architecting web and mobile applications, Chawla has created apps for a wide range of industry clients, from high-end fashion brands to successful tech startups. Chawla is passionate about building and being involved in disruptive technology ventures.

Rashmi Sinha

spends her time researching, creating, and analyzing interactive experiences. Her current obsessions are cognitive anthropology and distributed cognition. She will be talking about free-listing and other user research methods at the AIfIA Leadership Seminar at the upcoming Information Architecture Summit in Portland.

Rebekah Sedaca

Rich Lee

Rich Lee / @richardlee_tn Rich has been fortunate in his career to work as a designer with amazing designers, as a developer with far more talented developers, and as a manager in several roles where he has learned to talk less, listen more, and pick good people to play with. He's worked with tiny firms and big corporations, and found the most important factor in any job is how much you want to get to your gig when you get up in the morning.