Board of Advisors
Our Advisory Board boasts a remarkable group of thought leaders, representing many of the core disciplines in user experience. They provide strategic guidance and help set the long-term vision for UXnet.
Aaron Marcus
AARON MARCUS is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world’s first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics. For the last decade, Mr. Marcus has focused on Web, mobile, and vehicle user-interface and information-visualization design.
Mr. Marcus has written over 150 articles; written/co-written five books, including (with Ron Baecker) Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs (1990), Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces (1992), and The Cross-GUI Handbook for Multiplatform User Interface Design (1994); contributed chapters/case studies to seven books of user-interface design, information appliances, and culture, including three industry Handbooks; and serves on the editorial/advisory boards of five industry publications, including interactions and User Experience. Mr. Marcus has also, lectured, tutored, and consulted internationally for more than 30 years.
Donald Norman
DR. DONALD NORMAN is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group and a Professor at Northwestern University. He has been Vice President of Apple Computer and an executive at Hewlett Packard.
He serves on many advisory boards, such as Chicago’s Institute of Design and Encyclopedia Britannica. He is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and is a Fellow of many organizations, including the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has an honorary degree in Psychology from the University of Padova (Italy) and an honorary PhD in Design from the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands), the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from SIGCHI, the professional organization for Computer-Human Interaction, and the 2005 Taylor Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology from the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Norman is the author of fourteen books, available in sixteen languages including “The Design of Everyday Things” and “Emotional Design.”
Ginny Redish
DR. JANICE (GINNY) REDISH is founder and president of Redish & Associates, which helps companies and agencies bring user-centered design into their processes. She greatly enjoys mentoring people who want to learn more about how to make products and processes work for people and how to communicate clearly.
In 1979, Ginny founded the Document Design Center at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC, which she directed for 13 years. In 1985, Ginny set up one of the first independent usability test laboratories in North America.
Since 1992, Ginny has been working with private companies and government agencies as a consultant in usability and documentation. Most of her work today is helping clients make information-rich web sites and web applications meet both business goals and users’ needs.
In 2006, Ginny received the first award as Outstanding Plain Language Leader in the Private Sector.
Ginny is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University.
Kun-Pyo Lee
DR. KUN-PYO LEE is professor and head of the department of Industrial design at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea. He is also director of Human-Centered Interaction Design Lab.
He studied at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, U.S. (MS) and Tsukuba University, Japan (PhD). He was visiting professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Tsukuba University, and University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Professional experience includes appointments as secretary general of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), vice president of the Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS); vice president for the Ergonomic Society of Korea; executive vice president of the Korea Society for Emotion and Sensibility (KSES); International Editor for Design Studies published by Elsevier; Judge of Asian Design Award and Good Design Award.
He has consulted on design planning, and interface design, and he has received many international design awards. He has published about 50 papers in overseas and domestic design journals and presented about 150 papers in design conferences.
Marc Rettig
After a twelve-year first career as a software developer, MARC RETTIG is now thirteen years into a second career as a designer, educator, and researcher.
Marc is Founding Principal of Fit Associates, a design enablement firm established in 2005. He has taught both lecture and studio courses at Carnegie Mellon’s Graduate School of Design (where he was the 2003 Nierenberg Distinguished Chair of Design) and the Institute of Design, IIT, in Chicago.
Marc served as Chief Experience Officer of the pace-setting user experience consultancy HannaHodge. He was a Director of User Experience at Cambridge Technology Partners. Prior to that he was a consultant with seeSpace, VP of Design for Digital Knowledge Assets, and a Senior Architect in Andersen Consulting’s Advanced Technologies Group.
Marc frequently speaks and conducts workshops in industry and academic settings around the world. He currently serves on the advisory boards of The Interaction Design Association and Rosenfeld Media.
Patrick Whitney
PROFESSOR PATRICK WHITNEY is the director of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and is the Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor of Design.
Patrick has published and lectured throughout the world about how to make technological innovations more humane, the link between design and business strategy, and methods of designing interactive communications and products.
He is on the Distinguished Advisor Board of ACM SIGCHI. He has been on the jury of numerous award programs including the 1995 Presidential Design Awards, and was a member of the White House Council on Design. Whitney was chairman of the program of the 1978 US Conference of the International Council on Graphic Design Associations, which was the first major meeting addressing the issues of evaluating design from the perspective of users.
Professor Whitney was the President of the American Center for Design (ACD) and the editor of the Design Journal, its annual publication.
