7th Annual UX Event
November 10, 2011 : Portland, Oregon
Thank you!
Thanks to all who attended Love at First Website 2011. Read the recap and stay tuned for information on next year's event!
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Rosenfeld Media
REI, Inc.
Blurb
Übermind
Cloud Four
Simple
ISITE Design
We're excited to bring this unique event to Portland, Oregon for a seventh straight year.
This one of a kind half-day event will share stories from brands that go to extreme lengths to deliver delight.
Love at First Website is a half-day user experience event hosted by ISITE Design that brings together compelling stories from brands and UX folks that deliver delight with inspired digital experiences.
Rosenfeld Media
Louis Rosenfeld is an information architecture consultant and the founder of Rosenfeld Media, a user experience publishing house. He has helped such organizations as PayPal, AT&T, Caterpillar, Ford, Microsoft and the Centers for Disease Control make their information easier to find. He is author of Search Analytics for Your Site and co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, considered the bible of information architecture. Lou is co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute and helped found the Information Architecture Summit.
He blogs regularly at www.louisrosenfeld.com, and tweets even more regularly @louisrosenfeld.
REI, Inc.
After more than a decade of customer focused work at companies like Amazon.com and Microsoft, Samantha Starmer now leads cross-channel experience, design, and information architecture teams at REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.). She is passionate about evangelizing and creating holistic customer experiences across channels, time, and devices. Samantha regularly teaches at the University of Washington, and enjoys speaking about experience design and how to evangelize its importance.
You can find Samantha on Twitter at @samanthastarmer.
Blurb
Chad Jennings is a founding employee and VP of Products at Blurb, the creative publishing platform that enables you to design, publish, share and sell commercial-quality print and digital books. Chad leads the product, design, and content strategy of Blurb's Webby Award winning Web Site, creation tools, book and digital products, and brand. As Director of Interaction Design at Method, and team lead at Smart Design, he designed, for a range of product, web, and mobile clients including Samsung, HP, Adobe Systems, Autodesk, Sun Microsystems, Reuters, Gucci, Microsoft and Palm. Chad holds a Master's Degree in User-Centered Design from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, but he really adds value to Blurb projects through his signature sound effects: "Da-jink!" for links followed, and "boo-yah!" when a design element plops onto grid.
Übermind
Nick Finck is a user experience professional who has worked in the web industry for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability, and user research. Nick has created web experiences for Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Google and Oprah.com. He lives and plays in Seattle, Washington, where heʼs a User Experience Architect at Ubermind, the leading digital agency specializing in mobile and emerging technologies.
Prior to working at Übermind he was a founder of Blue Flavor, a user experience consultancy, where they launched one of the very first web applications for the iPhone. Nick was the publisher of Digital Web Magazine, an online publication for web professionals, for ten years. He is actively involved in the web community, helping as adviser to such events as SXSW Interactive, the Information Architecture Summit, InfoCamp Seattle and in the past, WebVisions. Nick has also judged The Webby Awards and the SXSW Web Awards.
Cloud Four
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile group.
Jason is a co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development. He blogs at http://CloudFour.com/blog and provides frequent updates about mobile as @grigs on Twitter.
Simple
Bill DeRouchey is creative director at Simple, a financial startup aiming to reboot personal banking through design, technology and service. He's loving tackling a problem that seems mundane, but is instead rich with complexity and can help people in their everyday lives.
Previously, he directed interaction design at Ziba Design, designing interfaces for a wide range of physical things, from patient monitors to satellite radios to air conditioners. He also served on the global board of directors for IxDA, the Interaction Design Association. During those fun times, he co-chaired Interaction10, a much-loved conference that pushed the boundaries of the attendees' experience. Bill is also known for researching and talking about how the history of the button personifies the history of interaction design. Yeah, nerd.
ISITE Design
Barbara is a User Experience Architect who unites her passion for user-centered design and a deep love of meaningful content to create interfaces for software applications, social networking, B2C and B2B websites. With 22 years of designing interactive experiences under her belt, Barbara uncovers insights through qualitative research techniques such as expectation design testing, paper prototyping, card sorts, design-preference focus groups and more. Her work has contributed to the success of projects for clients such as Savannah College of Art and Design, Oregon Health & Science University, MIT World, PacifiCorp, Genzyme and Verity Credit Union.
A tireless promoter of usability research and user-centered design, Barbara writes and speaks for professional groups such as American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). When she’s not working, Barbara takes her interest in technology outdoors. She’s an avid geocacher and co-led a geocaching treasure hunt at Interaction11.
A leader in Web Content Management and Online Engagement, Sitecore builds business application software that solves modern day problems for a wide range of companies and organizations. Sitecore software consists of platforms for Web Content Management ("WCM") and Customer Engagement, which includes website solutions and integrated automation of marketing tasks and e-commerce.
For more information, contact Andy Van Oostrum, Regional Sales Manager at 971-266-8181 or avo@sitecore.net.
Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores and 12,000 ATMs and the Internet (wellsfargo.com and wachovia.com) across North America and internationally.
For more information, contact Barbara Hobson, VP & Senior Business Relationship Manager, Wells Fargo Business Banking at 503-670-5476.
