Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in user interface design and computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen worked at Bellcore, IBM, and as a senior researcher at computer company Sun Microsystems.

Alan Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user interfaces more usable. Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic", although much of work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft's internal development group. Cooper was the leading force behind VB 1.0 and pioneered the use of an IDE to create a GUI via wrapped calls to system routines in the API (see Adapter pattern).

Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. According to an October 10 2006 "Wall Street Journal" article, …

Joanna Hoffman was an Apple Computer employee in the 1980s when she worked on the Apple Macintosh team in 1984. Before being hired as the fifth member of the team in September 1980 by Jef Raskin, she was a physicist and archeologist. She was the only marketing person for more than a year, and she made many important contributions, including writing the first draft of the User Interface Guidelines. She is now the mother of two children, …

Cem Kaner J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and the Director of Florida Tech's Center for Software Testing Education & Research (CSTER) since 2004. He is perhaps best known outside academia as an advocate of software usability and software testing. Prior to his professorship, Kaner worked in the software industry beginning in 1983 in Silicon Valley "as a tester, programmer, tech writer, software development manager, …

Joseph Amadee Goguen was a computer science professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, USA, who helped develop the OBJ family of programming languages. He was author of "A Categorical Manifesto" and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Standard implication in product fuzzy logic is often called "Goguen implication".

Bill Fernandez is a user interface architect who was Apple Computer's first employee when they incorporated in 1977. He worked on both the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, and in the 1980s was a member of the Apple Macintosh development team. He contributed to several user interface aspects of the Mac OS, QuickTime and HyperCard and owns a user interface patent granted in 1994.

Kai Krause (born 1957) is a software artist and user interface designer, best known for founding MetaCreations Corp., for his widely acclaimed Kai's Power Tools series of products, and for revolutionizing the state of graphical user interface design at that time.

Bonnie Nardi is best known as the lead author of "Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart", Nardi & O'Day, (MIT Press, 1998). She is widely known among librarians - especially research, reference and digital librarians - for Chapter 7 of Information Ecologies, which focused on librarians as keystone species in information ecologies.

Mike Matas (born March 23, 1986) is the co-founder of the software company Delicious Monster along with Wil Shipley. He previously worked for The Omni Group, designing icons and user interfaces. Currently he works for Apple Inc.

Julian Lombardi (born November 11, 1956) is an American inventor, author, educator, and computer scientist known for his work in information architecture, user interface design and in the design of computer systems that support collaboration between large numbers of users. Lombardi currently serves as Duke University's Assistant Vice President of Academic Services and Technology Support.

Virginia Howlett (born 1951 in Edmonton, Canada) is a designer and painter. With an MFA in Painting from The Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia was one of the first designers hired into Microsoft in 1985. While there, she built the company's first user interface design team. She led the team that designed the 3D graphic interface for Windows 95. She was also instrumental in starting Microsoft's corporate art collection.

Richard is CEO of AND (www.AND.co.uk) where he oversees a portfolio of digital businesses which includes Jobsite, Primelocation, Findaproperty, Motors.co.uk, the Allegran family. As P&L owner he drives strategy to expand into new and existing markets and grow their services both domestically and internationally. Previously, Richard was Controller, Future Media at the BBC, overseeing mobile, WWW, iTV & iPlayer. Richard co-founded top 10 interactive agency Schematic acquired by WPP in 2007.

Richard Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work creating the original Madden Football game for video game consoles for Electronic Arts. Apart from "Madden", Hilleman was a key figure in building the massive EA Sports brand and has spent over 20 years working in product development at EA. He has directly or indirectly influenced a wide range of games and game designers.

"bulia byak" ["sic"] is the lead developer of Inkscape, and most influential in the design of its user interface. Known only by his pseudonym, the Russian expatriate is said to reside in Canada with his family, finding employment as a graphic designer and the operator of a small press. The name is a pun in Russian.

William David "Bill" Winn (d. 2006) was an educational psychologist who made notable contributions to the understanding of how people learn from diagrams, and on how cognitive and constructivist theories of learning can help instructional designers select effective teaching strategies. His areas of teaching and research included instructional theory, design of computer-based learning, instructional effects of illustrations, …

I've worked across media, media production, broadcasting, education, construction, technology, telephony, healthcare, and Internet organizations. My goal has been to solve business, creative or technical problems through the creative application of technology with a passion for pushing the boundaries to improve what is possible today and then exceed it tomorrow.

Associate professor at University of Nancy 2, IUT Charlemagne - Received a PhD in Computer Science (2001) from University of Henri Poincare at Nancy, France, and a computer engineering diploma (1997) from University of Tunis II - Was a Researcher at the University of California - Santa Cruz, working on the development and evaluation of a talking head - Currently working on speech production, perception and audiovisual speech.

Manager of a usability team dedicated to high quality user experience for all electronic health record audiences, including billers, pharmacists, clinicians, and members.

Strategic, innovative, and highly-motivated product manager with seven years of experience designing the highest quality consumer-based web sites. Demonstrated thought leader able to plan and innovate, tap into the expertise of contributors on the team, and drive multi-million dollar projects to successful completion. Particularly strong analytical and prioritization skills round out a true passion for creating the ultimate consumer web experience.

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