Stephen P. Anderson is an internationally recognized speaker and consultant based out of Dallas, Texas. He created the Mental Notes card deck, a tool that's widely used by product teams to apply psychology to interaction design. He’s also of the author of the book Seductive Interaction Design, which answers the question: "How do we get people to fall in love with our applications?” Between public speaking and project work, Stephen offers workshops and training to help organizations manage creative teams, create interactive visualizations, and design better customer experiences.Amazon. Christopher Butler is the COO of Newfangled, where he directs strategy, design and personnel, as well as consults on a wide variety of topics surrounding design and technology. Christopher is a prolific writer and speaker. His articles have been published in PRINT, HOW, Smashing Magazine, Salon, and elsewhere, and he is the author of The Strategic Web Designer. He has spoken at events for HOW, the UCDA, AIGA, and the American Marketing Association. Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard.In, an "antisocial" bookmarking site founded in 2009. Prior to beginning work as an independent contractor, Maciej worked as the first engineer at Yahoo!'s Brickhouse, where he worked as a backend developer and community manager and developed a visual airfare search engine called FareMaps. Some of Maciej's projects have included designing and building an internal data warehouse for Twitter, Building an online book reader for Otworz Ksiazke, a Polish Creative Commons project at the University of Warsaw, among others. David Cole is the head of design at Quora. Previously he led product design work for startups including EtherPad, Disqus, and Fluther. In 2010, David ran the studio Sleepover focusing on interactive editorial design. Mike is the Director of Experience Design at Twitter. The focus of Mike’s work is to bridge disciplines across design, business, and technology to create space where great product design work can take place. Over the past two years Mike has been working on growing the design team at Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter, Mike was a Principle Design Lead for Windows Phone at Microsoft, where he led design for the Social, Communication, Productivity, and International experiences on Windows Phone. From 2004 to 2008, Mike was a member of Nokia's Insight & Innovation design team in Los Angeles, working on strategy and conceptual design projects for Nokia. While at Microsoft, he helped establish and build the relationship between Nokia and Windows Phone's design teams. Mike has a Master’s Degree in Interaction Design from the Umeå Institute of Design in northern Sweden, and a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. Fluther. In 2010, David ran the studio Sleepover focusing on interactive editorial design. Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design” to describe a new way of designing for the ever-changing Web. His popular book on responsive design has been widely praised, as it demonstrates how designers and organizations can leverage the Web’s flexibility to design across mobile, tablet, and desktop—and whatever might come next. Over the years his clientele has included New York Magazine, the Sundance Film Festival, The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and the W3C. Ethan is an advisor to Editorially, and has been a featured speaker at many conferences, including An Event Apart, SXSW Interactive, and Webstock. Nick Myers is director of user experience design at Fitbit where he leads the design of interactive products for mobile, web and devices. Prior to Fitbit, Nick was managing director of design services at Cooper where he led the consulting practice. He was an instructor for Cooper U and Rock Health, a health startup incubator, and wrote for the Cooper Journal. Nick has been an advisor for Practice Fusion and helped clients like Autodesk, Chefs Feed, Dell, GE, General Motors, Office Depot, and TaskRabbit, Nick has spoken at popular conferences like SxSW, Webvisions, Interactions, and Adobe Max. Steve Portigal is the author of Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, and is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a firm that helps clients to discover and act on new insights about them­selves and their cus­tomers. He has inter­viewed fam­i­lies eating break­fast, hotel main­te­nance staff, archi­tects, rock musi­cians, home-automation enthu­si­asts, credit-default swap traders, and radi­ol­o­gists. Steve speaks reg­u­larly at cor­po­rate events and con­fer­ences such as CHI, IxDA, Lift, SXSW, UPA, UX Australia, UX Hong Kong, UX Lisbon, and WebVisions. His arti­cles have been pub­lished in inter­ac­tions, Core77, Ambidextrous, and Johnny Holland. He blogs at www.portigal.com/blog and tweets at @steveportigal. Dan Roam is the author of the international bestsellers "The Back of the Napkin" (Fast Company, the Times of London, and Amazon’s Innovation Book of the Year) and "Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work." Dan’s newest book, "Show and Tell: How Everyone Can Make Extraordinary Presentations" was just published by Penguin Portfolio. Dan has helped leaders at Microsoft, Boeing, eBay, Kraft, Gap, IBM, the US Navy, the United States Senate, and the White House solve complex problems with simple pictures. Dan and his whiteboard appear frequently on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NPR. He lives in San Francisco. Indhira Rojas is a product designer at Medium, a platform for everyone’s stories and ideas. In her practice she focuses on crafting engaging and meaningful product experiences, that are both beautiful and delightful to use. Her web and mobile design work is greatly influenced by a love for print, branding and editorial design. Rojas holds a Masters in Design from California College of the Arts and a Bachelors in Communication Design from Parsons The New School for Design. Her work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine and exhibited at Pasadena Museum of California Art in Los Angeles. David Sherwin is an interaction designer and creative director with a depth of expertise in developing compelling solutions for challenging business problems. His books include Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills and Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers. David is currently an Interaction Design Director at Frog, a Global Innovation Firm, where he helps to guide the research, strategy and design of novel products and services for some of today's leading companies and nonprofit organizations. He is also a senior lecturer in the BFA in Interaction Design program at California College of the Arts. He has spoken and conducted workshops at events such as SxSW, Interaction, HOW Design Live, UX London, Sandbox Summit@MIT, as well as at many design schools. His writing has appeared in FastCoDesign, TheAtlantic.com/Life, A List Apart, Good.Is, PSFK.com, HOW and many other periodicals. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, the poet and writer Mary Paynter Sherwin. In his free time, he maintains the blog ChangeOrder at www.changeorderblog.com. Scott Snibbe, CEO of Eyegroove, is a media artist and entrepreneur. Snibbe’s current passion is interactive music apps, which build on his pioneering work in gestural installations and interactive art. Snibbe’s art is in the permanent collections of the Whitney and MoMA, in apps such as Björk’s Biophila, and in concert tours, Olympics, science museums, airports, and other major public spaces. He has collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk, Philip Glass, and James Cameron. Snibbe was one of the co-developers of the special effects software Adobe After Effects, a researcher at Interval Research, and winner of numerous awards. Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a content strategist, editor, and writer based in Philadelphia, where she runs a content strategy consultancy. She is the author of Content Everywhere from Rosenfeld Media, a book that helps content professionals, designers, and others plan for flexible, adaptable content systems that can be accessed across channels and devices. She is also the editor in chief of A List Apart, a magazine about web content, culture, and code, and a speaker at conferences like SXSW, Confab, the Content Strategy Forum, Mobilism, Web Directions, UX Week, and Beyond the Desktop.