The following list compiles people who are well-known in the area of usability,
the Web, and graphic design. We also provide a list of
UI and design pioneers who have already passed away.
This list will be expanded step by step. Suggestions are welcome. Please,
send your suggestions to sapdesignguild@sap.com.
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Benjamin
Bederson
e-mail:
HCIL: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil
Bio: www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Nigel
Bevan
e-mail:
Professional Usability Services: www.nigelbevan.com
Bio: www.nigelbevan.com/about.htm |
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Susanne
Boedker
e-mail:
Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University: cs.au.dk
Bio (CV): pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/susanne-boedker(87d4fbb6-b38c-449e-b87d-59f693b7d6f0)/cv.html?id=40299654 (Aarhus
University) |
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Bill
Buxton
e-mail:
Bio: www.billbuxton.com
(Microsoft Research)
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Stuart
Card
e-mail:
Bio: www2.parc.com/istl/groups/uir/people/stuart/stuart.htm
User Interface Research @ PARC (Area Manager)
Feature on SAP Design Guild
See also page
on Designing Interactions Website |
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John
Carroll
e-mail:
College of Information Sciences and Technology: www.ist.psu.edu
Homepage: jcarroll.ist.psu.edu
Bio: jcarroll.ist.psu.edu/about-2/career
Older versions:
Homepage: cscl.ist.psu.edu/public/users/jcarroll/Self/index.html
Bio: cscl.ist.psu.edu/public/users/jcarroll/Self/BioPhotos
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Gilbert
Cockton
e-mail:
Northumbria University: www.northumbria.ac.uk
Heritage homepage: osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0gco/old.htm
Bio: www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/despdf/profgilbert.pdf |
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Larry
Constantine
e-mail:
Constantine & Lockwood Ltd: www.foruse.com
Bio: www.foruse.com/about/principals.htm
Feature on SAP Design
Guild |
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Alan
Cooper
e-mail:
Cooper Interaction Design: www.cooper.com
Bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cooper (Wikipedia)
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Gillian
Crampton Smith
e-mail: unknown
Bio: www.iuav.it/Facolta/facolt--di1/English-ve/faculty/teaching-f/GillianCra/index.htm
Feature on SAP Design Guild
See also page
on Designing Interactions Website |
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Mary
Czerwinski
e-mail:
Bio (Microsoft Research): research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/marycz
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Susan
Dray
e-mail:
Dray and Associates, Inc.: www.dray.com/
Bio: www.dray.com/aboutus.html |
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Allison
Druin
e-mail:
HCIL: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil
Bio: www.umiacs.umd.edu/~allisond
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Anthony
Dunne
e-mail:
Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London: www.design-interactions.rca.ac.uk
Dunne & Raby: www.dunneandraby.co.uk
Bio: www.dunneandraby.co.uk/content/biography (Dunne & Raby) • www.design-interactions.rca.ac.uk/anthony-dunne (RCA)
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Douglas
Engelbart
e-mail: unknown
Bio (Wikipedia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
Bio (Scott Griffin): www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/engelbart.html
See also page
on Designing Interactions Website
Douglas Engelbart is known for the NLS system and as the inventor of
the mouse. Read more in Pioneers of the Future. |
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Hartmut
Esslinger
e-mail: unknown
Bio (frog design): www.frogdesign.com/about/management-team#hartmut-esslinger
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Jodi
Forlizzi
e-mail:
University: Human-Computer
Interaction Institute - The
School of Design - Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Homepage: goodgestreet.com
Bio: goodgestreet.com/resu2.html |
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Batya
Friedman
e-mail:
University of Washington - Information School: ischool.uw.edu
The Value Sensitive Design Research Lab: www.vsdesign.org
Bio: ischool.uw.edu/directory/faculty/detail.aspx?id=3135 |
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Jonathan
Grudin
e-mail:
Bio (Microsoft Research): research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/jgrudin/
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Jan
Gulliksen
e-mail:
Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology: www.it.uu.se
Bio: www.it.uu.se/katalog/gulan |
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JoAnn
Hackos
e-mail:
Comtech Services Incorporated: www.comtech-serv.com
Bio: www.comtech-serv.com/people.shtml
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Rachel
Hinman
e-mail:
Homepage: rachelhinman.com
Bio: rachelhinman.com/bioandresume-page.html
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Karen
Holtzblatt
e-mail:
InContext Enterprises: incontextdesign.com
Bio: incontextdesign.com/people/karen-holtzblatt
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Kristina
Höök
e-mail:
SICS interaction lab: www.sics.se
Bio: www.sics.se/~kia
C.V.: www.sics.se/~kia/cv.html
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Sarah
Horton
e-mail:
Homepage (Dartmouth College): www.dartmouth.edu/~shorton
Bio:www.digital-web.com/articles/sarah_horton
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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William
Horton
e-mail:
William Horton Consulting, Inc.: www.horton.com
Bio: www.horton.com/html/whcbiointro.htm |
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Keith
Instone
e-mail:
Website: instone.org
Bio: instone.org/about |
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Hiroshi
Ishii
e-mail:
MIT: www.media.mit.edu/~ishii
Bio: web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/bio.html
Feature on SAP Design Guild
See also page
on Designing Interactions Website |
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Julie
Jacko
e-mail:
Homepage (University of Minnesoata, School of Public Health): www.sph.umn.edu/facstaff/ourfaculty/faculty/jacko011
Homepage (University of Minnesoata, UP-HI): www.uphi.umn.edu/about/faculty/jacko/
Bio: www.sph.umn.edu/facstaff/ourfaculty/faculty/jacko011 • www.uphi.umn.edu/about/faculty/jacko/
Feature on the SAP Design Guild |
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Bonnie
John
e-mail:
Homepage: www.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/
Bio (Curriculum Vita): www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/BEJvita.pdf
Feature on the SAP Design Guild |
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Jeff
Johnson
e-mail:
UI Wizards Inc.: www.uiwizards.com
Bio: www.uiwizards.com/aboutUs.html
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Clare-Marie
Karat
e-mail: unknown (contact
link)
IBM research: www.research.ibm.com/index.shtml
Bio: domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/ckarat.index.html |
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John
Karat
e-mail: unknown (contact
link)
IBM research: www.research.ibm.com/index.shtml
Bio: domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/ckarat.index.html
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Alan
Kay
e-mail: unknown
Bio (Wikipedia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
Bio (Scott Gash): ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML
Pioneer in object-oriented programming and graphic user interfaces (window
systems). Read more in Pioneers
of the Future.
Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
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David
Kelley
e-mail: unknown
IDEO: ww.ideo.com/
Bio: www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/people/board/kelley.shtml
See also page
on Designing Interactions Website |
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Tom
Kelley
e-mail:
IDEO: www.ideo.com/
Bio: www.theartofinnovation.com/about_authors.htm; www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/tomkelley/index.htm |
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Brenda
Laurel
e-mail:
Homepage: www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/index.html
Bio: www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/BrendaBio.html
Feature on SAP Design Guild
See also page
on Designing Interactions Website |
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Henry
Lieberman
e-mail:
Homepage: web.media.mit.edu/~lieber
Lieberary: web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Lieberary.html
Bio: web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Bio.Text • www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Jonas
Löwgren
e-mail:
Malmö University, Sweden: www.mah.se
Personal Homepage: webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo
Short bio: webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/resume.htm
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John
Maeda
e-mail: unknown
Bio (RISD): www.risd.edu/president/maeda.html
John Maeda's Weblog: weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY (no
longer maintained)
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Aaron
Marcus
e-mail:
Aaron Marcus and Associates: www.amanda.com
Profile: amanda.com/profile
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Rolf
Molich
e-mail:
DialogDesign: www.dialogdesign.dk
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Thomas
P. Moran
e-mail:
Bio (Wikipedia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._Moran
Bio (Shaoke Blog): shaokezhang.blogspot.com/2008/11/thomas-p-moran.html
IBM Almaden Research Center
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Brad
Myers
e-mail:
University: Human-Computer
Interaction Institute - The
School of Computer Science - Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Homepage: www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam
Feature on SAP Design Guild |
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Ted
Nelson
e-mail: unknown
Bio (Wikipedia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
Bio (Scott Griffin): www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/nelson.html
Ted Nelson is one of the hypertext pioneers (he coined this term). His
biggest project was the Xanadu hypertext system, which has never
been completed. Read more in Pioneers
of the Future. |
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Jakob
Nielsen
e-mail:
Nielsen Norman Group: www.NNgroup.com (info@nngroup.com
)
Jakob Nielsen's Website: www.useit.com
Bio: www.useit.com/jakob/
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Don
Norman
e-mail:
Nielsen Norman Group: www.NNgroup.com (info@nngroup.com)
Bio: www.jnd.org/NielsenNormanGroup.html
Homepage: www.jnd.org
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Gary
M. Olson
e-mail:
Bio (SI): www.si.umich.edu/people/faculty-detail.htm?sid=77
Bio (CREW): www.crew.umich.edu/people/golson.html
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Judy
Olson
e-mail:
Bio (SI): www.si.umich.edu/people/faculty-detail.htm?sid=78
Bio (CREW): www.crew.umich.edu/people/jolson.html |
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Philippe
Palanque
e-mail:
IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Tolouse, France: www.irit.fr
Homepage: ihcs.irit.fr/palanque |
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Eric
Paulos
e-mail: unknown
University: Human-Computer
Interaction Institute - The
School of Computer Science - Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Homepage: www.paulos.net |
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Steven
Pemberton
e-mail:
INS at CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: www.cwi.nl/en/research-clusters/Information-Systems
Homepage: homepages.cwi.nl/~steven |
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Catherine
Plaisant
e-mail:
HCIL: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/
Resume: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/resume-11-8-2005.pdf
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Jennifer
Preece
e-mail:
College of Information Studies, University of Maryland: ischool.umd.edu
Homepage: ischool.umd.edu/people/preece
Bio: wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presenters/Jenny_Preece • ischool.umd.edu/people/preece/CV2009.pdf
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Whitney
Quesenbery
e-mail:
WQusability: www.wqusability.com
Bio: www.wqusability.com/biography.html |
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Marc
Rettig
e-mail:
Homepage: www.marcrettig.com
Fit Associates: www.fitassociates.com
Bio: www.fitassociates.com/biographies.htm#Marc |
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Janice
Rohn
e-mail:
Experian: www.experian.com
Bio: www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/conferences-trust-janice-rohn-bio.cfm (not
up-to-date)
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Stephanie
Rosenbaum
e-mail:
(Tec-Ed, Inc.)
Tec-Ed, Inc.: www.teced.com
Bio: www.teced.com/slr.html |
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Daniel
Rosenberg
e-mail: unknown
Bio: www.hcii2009.org/keynote.html
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Mary
Beth Rosson
e-mail:
College of Information Sciences and Technology: www.ist.psu.edu
Homepage and Bio: mrosson.ist.psu.edu
Older version:
Homepage: faculty.ist.psu.edu/rosson
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Dan
Saffer
e-mail:
Syntactic Devices: syntacticdevices.com (does
not work at the moment)
Homepage (O Danny Boy): www.odannyboy.com
Bio: www.odannyboy.com • bio
provided to amazon.com by the author
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Gavriel
Salvendy
e-mail:
Homepage (Purdue University): engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/ptProfile?resource_id=9249
Bio: engineering.purdue.edu/~salvendy
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Eric
Schaffer
e-mail: unknown
Human Factors International (HFI): www.humanfactors.com
Bio: www.humanfactors.com/about/eric.asp
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Michael
Schrage
e-mail:
Bio (Homepage, MIT): ebusiness.mit.edu/Schrage/ (last
edited 2005)
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Nathan
Shedroff
e-mail: unknown
Contact form (Rosenfeld media): rosenfeldmedia.com/books/sustainable-design/author/contact/
Nathan Shedroff's World: www.nathan.com
Bio: www.nathan.com/me/index.html
Bio: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/sustainable-design/author/biography/ |
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Ben
Shneiderman
e-mail:
HCIL: www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil
Bio: www.cs.umd.edu/~ben
Special
issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction in
honor of Ben Shneiderman's 60th birthday
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Mads
Soegaard
e-mail:
HCI Encyclopedia: www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia
Bio (interaction-design.org): www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/mads_soegaard.html |
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Robert
Spence
e-mail:
Bio (homepage, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering): www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~r.spence
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Jared
Spool
e-mail:
User Interface Engineering: www.uie.com
Interview: www.webword.com/interviews/spool.html
Interview: www.usabilitynews.com/news/article432.asp
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Constantine
Stephanidis
e-mail:
Homepage (FORTH - ICS): www.ics.forth.gr/hci/index_main.php?l=e&c=523
Bio: www.ics.forth.gr/hci/index_main.php?l=e&c=72 (short) • www.ics.forth.gr/hci/index_main.php?l=e&c=496 (long)
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Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini
e-mail:
Nielsen Norman Group: www.NNgroup.com (info@nngroup.com)
Bio: www.asktog.com/tog.html
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Gregg
Vanderheiden
e-mail:
Trace Center: trace.wisc.edu
Bio: www.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/vanderheiden_gregg.html
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Colin
Ware
e-mail:
Data Visualization Research Lab: ccom.unh.edu/vislab/index.html
Homepage/Bio: ccom.unh.edu/vislab/CWBio.html
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Lynda
Weinman
e-mail: unknown
Company: www.lynda.com
Feature: webreference.com/graphics/greats/lynda
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Terry
Winograd
e-mail:
Homepage: hci.stanford.edu/~winograd
Curriculum vitae: hci.stanford.edu/%7Ewinograd/cv.html
Feature on SAP Design Guild
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on Designing Interactions Website |
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Dennis
Wixon
e-mail: unknown
Microsoft Game Studios (MGS), User Research: mgsuserresearch.com
Bio: MGS
User Research - Team Bios (bio no longer on this page) |
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John
Zimmerman
e-mail: unknown
University: Human-Computer
Interaction Institute - The
School of Design - Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Homepage: www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnz/ |