New technology brings broad experimentation and new design challenges. It takes years, if not decades, to establish an effective design vocabulary to discuss what "works" and "doesn't work." This panel asks established professionals in architecture, speech writing, and event planning to describe their creative processes and vocabularies and will compare them with the best practices in interaction design. This session brought to you by Meebo.
Over eleven years of Interactive Experience. Brett currently designs Gmail.com for iPad, mobile Gmail.com, the top navigation bar on desktop Google, and is working on some new stuff he can't yet talk about. He is a Staff User Experience Designer at Google, having been there for six years, and was at Razorfish for five years prior to Google.
Elaine Wherry, Co-Founder and Vice President of Products, Meebo
Elaine Wherry is Co-Founder and Vice President of Products for Meebo, one of the Web’s fastest growing consumer Internet companies that enables almost 170 million people to share and connect with their friends online. Wherry leads the Web, Product Management and User Experience teams, and designs the look and feel of all Meebo’s products.
Wherry, along with college friends Seth Sternberg and Sandy Jen, started Meebo in 2005 to connect people to their friends across the Web. Wherry authored Meebo’s initial JavaScript framework five years ago, and has been the driving force behind product developments such as Meebo Messenger, Meebo Mobile and the Meebo Bar.
Prior to starting Meebo, Wherry worked at Synaptics as a Human Factors Researcher and later became the Manager of Usability and Design.
Wherry, a classically trained violinist, graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems and a concentration in Human Computer Interaction. She is a recent recipient of the Founders Fund TechFellows Award in Engineering Leadership.
When she’s not writing code, Wherry blogs about thoughts on the art of design at ewherry.com.
