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People (Usability, Web, and Graphic Design)

Compiled and edited by the SAP Design Guild Team– Updated: January 14, 2010

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.

Note: The e-mail addresses are not directly readable from the HTML code.

 

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Richard Anderson

e-mail:
Homepage: www.well.com/~riander
About: www.well.com/~riander/about.html
Blog: riander.blogspot.com

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Bill Buxton

Bill Buxton

e-mail:
Bio: www.billbuxton.com
(Microsoft Research)

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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)

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Larry Constantine

e-mail:
Constantine & Lockwood Ltd: www.foruse.com
Bio: www.foruse.com/about/principals.htm

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Alan Cooper

e-mail:
Cooper Interaction Design: www.cooper.com
Personal Website: www.cooper.com/alan/alan_cooper.html

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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

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Mary Czerwinski

e-mail:
Bio (Microsoft Research): research.microsoft.com/users/marycz

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Doug 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

Doug Engelbart is known for the NLS system and as the inventor of the mouse

Hartmut Esslinger

Hartmut Esslinger

e-mail: unknown
Bio (frog design): http://www.frogdesign.com/about/management-team#hartmut-esslinger

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Jonathan Grudin

e-mail:
Bio (Microsoft Research): research.microsoft.com/~jgrudin

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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

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Karen Holtzblatt

e-mail:
InContext Enterprises: incontextdesign.com
Bio: incontextdesign.com/people/karen-holtzblatt

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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

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Sarah Horton

e-mail:
Homepage (Dartmouth College): www.dartmouth.edu/~shorton
Bio:www.digital-web.com/articles/sarah_horton

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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:
Company: user-experience.org
Private homepage: instones.org/

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Hiroshi Ishii

e-mail:
MIT: www.media.mit.edu/~ishii
Bio: web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/bio.html

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Bonnie John

e-mail:
Homepage: www.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/
Bio (Curriculum Vita): http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/BEJvita.pdf

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Jeff Johnson

e-mail:
UI Wizards Inc.: www.uiwizards.com
Bio: www.uiwizards.com/aboutUs.html

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Photo of Alan Kay

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)

Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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David Kelley

e-mail: unknown
IDEO: http://www.ideo.com/
Bio: http://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

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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.Textwww.media.mit.edu/people/lieber

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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)

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Aaron Marcus

e-mail:
Aaron Marcus and Associates: www.amanda.com
Bio: www.amanda.com/people/staff/aaron_marcus_f.html

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Rolf Molich

e-mail:
DialogDesign: www.dialogdesign.dk

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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:
Homepage: www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam
(Human Computer Interaction Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University)

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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). He biggest project was the Xanadu hypertext system, which has never been completed.

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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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Philippe Palanque

e-mail:
IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Tolouse, France: www.irit.fr
Homepage: ihcs.irit.fr/palanque

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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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Marc Rettig

e-mail:
Homepage: www.marcrettig.com
Fit Associates: http://www.fitassociates.com/
Bio: www.fitassociates.com/biographies.htm#Marc

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Janice Rohn

e-mail: unknown
World Savings Bank
Bio: www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/conferences-trust-janice-rohn-bio.cfm

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Stephanie Rosenbaum

e-mail: (Tec-Ed, Inc.)
Tec-Ed, Inc.: www.teced.com
Bio: www.teced.com/slr.html

Dan Rosenberg

Daniel Rosenberg

e-mail: (SAP AG)
SAP AG: www.sap.com
Bio: www.hcii2009.org/keynote.html

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Dan Saffer

e-mail:
Kicker Studio: www.kickerstudio.com
Homepage (O Danny Boy): www.odannyboy.com
Bio: www.odannyboy.com/about_me.htm

Eric Schaffer

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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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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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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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

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Dennis Wixon

e-mail: unknown
Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) - User Research: mgsuserresearch.com
Bio: MGS User Research - Team Bios

 

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