The Apple HI Alumni (AHA) Page
I am not longer updating this page. It was last updated in 2014.
This page provides pointers to alumni (present and future) of the Apple HI (Human Interface) Community. Rather to my surprise, this page has proved quite popular, with around 300 hits per month. Note: This is not intended as a public directory. If you are not an alumnus of the Apple HI Community, we ask that you refrain from contacting the individuals below unless a) they state they are an independent consultant or contractor, or b) you are personally known to them. Thanks.
Acknowledgement: The concept for this page was appropriated from Don Gentner, who developed a similar page for Alumni of the LNR Research Group at UC San Diego.
AHA Folks
This table updated on February 1, 2014. 161 members.
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David Abkowitz |
ATG-HIG: QTVR prototype "Virtual Shopping." ATG-ACOT: Collaborative Learning "Dewey Project", "Collaboration Bulletin Board", Vision Video - "An Invitation to the Future". System Software Division: Mac OS-8 team - "Theme Toolkit", "Data Detectors", & Next generation OS concepts "Jonathan" | Founded "Snap!", a consultancy specializing in the design of intuitive, efficient, and visually compelling user experiences for enterprise and consumer applications. We help your team realize innovative solutions given your technical, market, and time constraints. | 3/9/05 |
| Jay van Achterberg President, Solution Innovators jvanacht@solutioninnovators.com www.solutioninnovators.com |
HIG Summer intern '91, provided C++ programming on Scribe (electronic notebook). | Computer Consulting in the Hartford, CT area as founder and president of Solution Innovators LLC, providing web design, custom software development and networking services geared toward small businesses. | 9/9/01 |
| Sally Applin Senior Researcher (UX/UE/UI/Anthropology) sally@sally.com www.sally.com |
ATG: The Virtual Museum '91 - '92 (cd's still available!); PIE: WALT (screen based telephone '92-'93), Apple Media Tool '93 - '94, Interactive television '94, Newton Wireless '94. | Writing up Ph.D. dissertation on Mixed, Dual, Blended and PolySocial Reality at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK - School of Anthropology and Conservation - Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing. Research and home in S.F. Bay Area |
4/23/12 |
| Jose Arcellana user interface design manager arcellana@alumni.stanford.org |
Instructional Products 1988-1995, HIDC/HIG 1995-1999. Help, assistants, high-level tool box, new directions; 7.5, 8.0, 8.5, X. | UI design manager at TiVo. | 4/5/08 |
Jeremy Ashley |
Instructional Products - Summer intern 1990 "Pink" system software - Interaction Designer 1991-93. Spun off as the subsidiary 'Taligent' |
Running the combined Oracle/Peoplesoft user experience organization for the Oracle Applications products. | 9/19/05 |
| Michael Arent Vice President, UX Standards, SAP michael.arent@sap.com +1 650.849.4352 W 510 684-6071 H |
HIG: '88-'93. Projects: Apple II Video Card UI; Iduna (HyperCard for Apple II); CHI Kiosk; Family Farm; AppleScript User Assistance; QuickTime 1.0 UI; Ansel Camera; Popeye (portable CD-ROM information player). | Executive management of SAP user interface standards worldwide in addition to the user experiences for Business Intelligence/Analytics and corporate governance/risk/compliance solutions. | 6/05/07 |
| Adam Baker User Interface Designer ab@merges.net (415) 370-4516 |
WWDR User Experience Evangelism intern 2002-2003. Aqua HIG, UE documentation, and sprinkled Mac OS X HI contributions. | Interaction designer at Google UX. | 12/19/07 |
| Sue Bartalo Human Interface Designer sbartalo@mac.com (650) 854-5432 |
1988-1993: developer in the International system software group. 1993-2001: UI designer for OpenDoc, PowerBooks, International, many system software releases, and most recently, Aqua. | UI designer in the Applications group (part-time). | 1/2/02 |
| Leo Baschy machi at nrvr dot com www.nirvanaresearch.com |
DSG 1989-1991. Discipline 2.0, Macsbug 6.2. HI innovation: 1989/90 designed Apple DocViewer from scratch (on my own time). ATG Vivarium 1991. | Designed MicNotePad (was MicMac) speech recording and transcription software, ran that business. Some consulting around speech recognition. Main interest in mind-boggling gui (for development environments), recent focus on access control for collaborative environments. | 4/15/02 |
| German Bauer design4use@gmail.com design4use.googlepages.com/home |
1991 Internship in Apple's Developer Tools UI team 1992- 1995 Claris Interface Design Group senior interaction designer : FileMaker, some releases of ClarisWorks 1995 UI Design Consulting with Newton Team |
User Experience Lead at Google, Inc. Working on mobile user experiences Previous: Adobe, Good, Netscape... |
9/11/07 |
| Penny Bauersfeld Varsity Networks penny@varsitynetworks.com www.varsitynetworks.com |
HIG '88 - '91. Projects: Color interfaces, 3D interfaces, interfaces for designers, interdisciplinary design. | In 2003, co-founded Varsity Networks, specializing in web sites and services for high school sports teams. I manage design, customer relations, training and support, among other things. Also do occasional usability consulting for loyal clients. | 1/3/05 |
| Eric Gould Bear Sr. Director, Yahoo! eric@monkey.com www.monkey.com (425) 830-4936 mobile |
HIG/ATG Summer Intern '92: WalkAbout Dock & SK8 Audio Piles | Founded MONKEYmedia in '94. At Microsoft '01-'03: UX Manager TabletPC & Hardware Innovation. Yahoo! '04-'05: Sr. Director of UX (mail, messenger, photos, personals, mobile, set-top, broadband). Currently managing MONKEYmedia's IP licensing program. | 2/6/05 |
| Rachel Bellamy Interaction Designer rachel@acm.org (914) 784-7587 |
ACOT 1993-95. Design Studio, 95-96. Learning Communities lab, 96-97. | At IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, in NY, since March 1998. | 5/26/98 |
| Victoria Bellotti Principal Scientist and Manager Palo Alto Research Center bellotti@parc.com www.parc.com |
ATG-User-Experience Research, '94-97. Design ethnographer. Moved to PARC with the rest of UER in 1994. | Manager of Socio-Technical and Interaction Research in PARC's Computing Science Laboratory. My main research area is task management but I'm also interested in Computer Mediated Communication, CSCW, Ubicomp and Contextual Computing. | 12/01/05 |
| Pete Bickford Interface Designer pbickford@human-computing.com (408) 266-6883 |
Almost nine years at Apple,
most recently as Sr. Scientist, Human Interface for Dev. Consulting.
Left in March. |
Currently heading Human Computing, an independent human interface consultancy and software development firm. | 6/16/00 |
| Elizabeth Boling Associate Professor Indiana University eboling@indiana.edu www.indiana.edu/~iirg/ |
Instructional Products G/FX Manager '88 - '92; manager for visual interface design, animation, engineering and production management of Mac Tour Disks, HyperCard Reference, System 7.0 Reference, Balloon Help, Apple Guide | Associate Prof. & Dept. Chair of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. Teach visual & media design for instructional & information products; lead Interface Interest and Research Group (IIRG!) | 1/18/00 |
Tom Bonura |
ATG '87-2004: Intelligent Systems Program - A flexible manufacturing configuration system, agent architectures, an architecture for finding structured information in unstructured text and arbitrary content, integrating speech recognition and the GUI, MacOSX screen reader. | Since Apple some consulting and some independent software development. Now I'm at a startup in Santa Cruz called Validus Medical Systems working on a really cool, robust physician information systems on PDA thin clients. | 6/05/07 |
| Edwin Bos Yahoo! Europe email @dsl.pipex.com failed 6/07 |
ATG '93 - '95, visiting scholar and contractor. I mainly worked on KidSim with Allen Cypher and Dave Smith. | Went to Apt Productions after leaving ATG, helped them burn through $7 million in VC money and make only 2 educational CDs. Now user experience architect at Yahoo! Europe in London. | 8/27/04 |
Kent Boucher |
Project Coordinator System Software, '89 to '93; Usability Lab Coordinator Human Interface Design Center (HIDC), '93 to '95; Usability Specialist, Claris '95 to '97; |
Accessibility/Usability Specialist with in the Cisco Corporate Compliance Group. Working on the accessibility of Cisco VoIP solutions | 7/09/07 |
| Tom Brinck Diamond Bullet Design email @diamondbullet.com failed 6/07 www.diamondbullet.com www.usabilityfirst.com |
Summer Intern 87, 88, 89. Part-timer 89-90 while in school. Vivarium (working on Project Seed), then Business Learning Research (Mr. Fix-it). | Tom co-founded Diamond Bullet Design in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1996. He now leads website design projects and does usability consulting. | 10/25/98 |
Paula Z. Brown |
Visual Interface Designer in the System Software group led by Bob Glass & Paulien Strijland 1992-1993. Designed icons and created control panel layouts |
UED Knowledge Manager for Yahoo! I work on a variety of projects that provide working resources and opportunities for career development for UED professionals across Yahoo! |
7/09/07 |
Kevin Bury |
Claris Interface Design Group, January 1996 through December 1997. UI design for ClarisWorks 5, Claris Home Page 2 and 3, and several other products that never saw the light of day. Inventor of the Claris Reanimatron. | Principal Designer at LinkedIn. | 7/14/08 |
| Randy Carr Software Guy email @fatlion.com failed 6/07 www.fatlion.com |
12 Apple years, since '82: Service: Apple // diagnostics; NSD: Inter*Poll, NodeCheck, etc.; System Software: Balloon Help, Apple Guide stuff; PIE: WALT (screen telephone); Portables: Autoremounter, etc.; Apple-Kalieda: ScriptX, COS; etc | Inventor/ implementor for
NavShell at PowerTV (AKA Kalieda). NavShell's an XML-derived, Javascript-driven,
UI/ application development environment for settop boxes, such as
the SA Explorer series. Someday we may ship it too! |
8/20/01 |
| Cesar Carrera 3D Visual Designer ccarrera@nvidia.com 408.486.7390 |
Worked on OS X from 98 to 2001 defining the UI visual design (Aqua). I concentrated on the new high-resolution photorealistic 3D icons. | Now developing 3D interfaces and designing visual identity at NVIDIA Corporation. | 1/14/05 |
| Ted Casey ted@caseysonline.com www.gofish.com |
HIG, QuickTime VR 1992-96, SweetPea UI, QuickTime VR v1.0-2.0, Star Trek Interactive Technical Manual, NBC News O.J. Simpson Trial, SF Asian Art Museum virtual tour | C0-founder and SVP Corporate Development, GoFish Technologies Inc. (www.gofish.com.) | 12/28/04 |
| Jenifer Chaffee Visual Interface Design Mouse Works Media jen@mouseworksmedia.com www.mouseworksmedia.com |
Developer Tools '91-'92: AppleScript appearance and icons. HIDC '93-'95: Open Doc appearance and interface; System 8 appearance, themes, icons; etc. Claris Interface Design Group '95-'96, Art Director, Claris Organizer 2.0 appearance. | Part owner and principal designer of MouseWorksMedia, established in 1996. MWM is a Visual Interface Design consulting business specializing in icons, controls, skins and various graphics for software and web applications. | 7/10/07 |
| Michael Chen michaelchen@unforgettable.com |
1987-1995. ATG HIG, 3D user interfaces, Apple Science CD Volumn I, notebook applications for pen computer, digital camera prototypes , Asian Art Museum of San Francisco virtual tour (http://www.asianart.org/exhibit_virt.htm), and QuickTime VR" | Now working at a startup. | 2/16/99 |
| Lili Cheng Human Interface Designer lilich@microsoft.com |
HIG/ATG: '92--Russian Palace project with Mike Mills and Laura Teodosio, '93--QuickVR with Eric Chen, '94--Quicktime Conferencing with Eric Hoffert and Dean Blackketter. | Microsoft Research: '95-present-- Social Computing Group (http://research.microsoft.com/scg/). Also have 3 boys, Nicky (7) and Julian (5) and Ely (1). | 12/27/01 |
| Harry Chesley chesley@acm.org |
Apple history: Apple 86-94, ATG 88-90. In ATG: Apple HyperCard Toolkits (serial port -- including HyperBBS; MacTCP -- including a Usenet news reader; videodisc; etc.), Blipverts, Rumor Monger. | Post Apple: Shockwave at Macromedia; Virtual Worlds/Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research. Now developing independent software. | 12/27/01 |
| Jonathan Cohen cohen@irascible.com |
HIG 1989-1994. Projects: Dynamic Documents/Quicktime, Transition Factory, Using sounds to monitor background activities. | Since 1999, consulting as a programmer (Java, C++, Director/Lingo, Flash) and UI designer. Projects included museum exhibits, website coding, various prototypes, and a couple of shrink-wrapped digital video apps. | 6/05/07 |
| Eric Cooper eric@learn.motion.com |
ATG (intern, then full-time) from '90 to '97. HIG '90: prototyping "How DoI..." help. ACOT/LTG: artificial life, media-rich collaboration, wireless, GPS, GIS, etc. Left in March. | Learning in Motion, Santa Cruz. Bringing research projects to product. Working on 2nd generation CSILE (Knowledge Forum), and on several other projects from science outreach to K-2 math education. | 12/8/97 |
Larry Cornett |
I was with Apple's Human Interface Group from 5/95 - 2/98. I initially worked as the Design lead for the International system software group, then served as the Finder Design lead for both Mac OS 8 - 9 and Rhapsody (Mac OS X). | am currently the founder of Brilliant FORGE, a consulting practice that provides advisory services to Fortune 500 companies and startups. Most recently, I was the Vice President of Consumer Products for Yahoo! Search. | 7/23/10 |
| David Cortright davidc@cs.stanford.edu |
Claris Interface Design Group: Aug. 1996 - Jan. 1998 UI designer for Emailer 2.0 and many terminated projects: Organizer and Emailer for Windows, Impact Japanese, BizMaker. | Lead designer for innovation lab projects at Venrock—a venture capital firm. | 3/4/08 |
| Helen Cunningham helen@psych.stanford.edu |
At Apple 1994-1997, first in ABS then HIDC. Worked on Cyberdog for two years (Great Product. I'm still using it daily). Then a few months on Rhapsody. | At Sun Microsystems since 1/98. Working on scalable UI for complex server and storage management systems. Doing some research in 3D visualization methods. | 12/9/99 |
Dave Curbow |
'90-'92 Development Systems Group (ResEdit, MPW, AppleScript and various development environments). Early member of WHIM, one of many authors of Macintosh HI Guidelines. Transferred to Sysems SW as HI architect for OpenDoc ('92-'96). ATG Discourse Architecture Lab in '96, laid off March '97. | Now at Cisco working on Telepresence, a high end video conferencing system. Exciting stuff! | 5/09/07 |
| Allen Cypher End User Programming Research cypher@acypher.com acypher@us.ibm.com www.stagecast.com |
'88-'97 ATG, Intelligent Interfaces group. Created Eager (an early intelligent agent), edited a book on Programming by Demonstration, created Cocoa (aka KidSim) with David C. Smith. | At IBM Almaden Research Center, currently working on end user programming. | 4/16/07 |
Michael Darius |
'99-'04 Lead Feature Designer for WebAqua, WebMetal, Mac OS X Dashboard concepting, QT interactivity, .Mac: web + desktop app design, iTunes Music Store: conception, prototyping, workflows, patterns, PC Launch, Globalization, iMix, Audiobooks, Allowances, iPod integration, etc. iLife: iApps guidelines v1, iTunes printing, iWeb + GarageBand storyboarding | Still humanizing and designing meaningful branded product experiences. I provide design consulting and advisory assistance for mid-entry level startups. |
11/04/13 |
| Lisa Louise Davis Usability & UI Design Consultant email @attbi.com failed 6/07 (206) 725-6369 |
Intern, employee, & consultant with UAD/HIDC 1993-99. Apple Network Administrator Toolkit, Location Manager, Password Security, Energy Saver, Control Panel Guidelines, FireWire Guidelines, etc. | After six years as a UI design consultant, Lisa has recently joined Tangis, a Seattle-based startup company that designs software for wearable computers. She and her husband have two small children. | 1/4/02 |
| Anke de Jong strategic/industrial/interaction design anke@ruby-slippers.com |
Worked with the Industrial Design Group on Sparky, Otis, multi media keyboard, remote controls, etc.. Also: Extensions Mngr 4.0 and up, concept for sound controls, Performa guided tour, etc., etc. | Independent consultant. My company, Ruby slippers, is based in Palo Alto and is part of a "confederation" (see "free agent nation") with MindSlippers, aka Larry Cornett (ex UI lead on Finder 8.5). | 8/6/01 |
| Chris DiGiano Research Computer Scientist digi@computer.org |
HIG Summer '91. Project:
Telespace (direct manipulation complement to voice operated business phone). |
Chris is a senior researcher at SRI's Center for Technology in Learning; he telecommutes to Menlo Park from Boulder CO. He designs and implements educational software and virtual learning communities. | 1/2/02 |
| Abbe Don Senior Experience Design Researcher Consumer Applications & Systems HP Labs abbe@abbedon.com www.abbedon.com www.bubbe.com |
ATG: In 1988, I started as a summer intern working on the Guides Project. I added first person video stories. From 1989 to 1992, the project was directed by Tim Oren in the Information Architecture and Access Group. | I have my own interface design consulting business. Was founding Executive Producer for Electric Minds. Continuing a dual career as interface designer and independent media artist. | 12/31/04 |
| Paul Dourish Software architecture jpd@ics.uci.edu www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd |
I worked in the Discourse Architecture Laboratory in ARL from August 1996 until May 1997. | After three years at Xerox PARC, joined the faculty in Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine in 2000. | 11/4/00 |
| Terri Ducay Manager, Claris Interface Design Group tducay@gmail.com |
Manager: Claris Interface Design Department. 1995 - 1999. Responsible for the User Interface for the full range of Claris products. | Netscape/AOL - Manager: User Information Intuit: Director of Interaction Design for Turbo Tax Now: Partner/Vice President, for Strategic and Information Design at Cheskin |
0712/07 |
| Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson User Experience eade@acm.org |
OpenDoc; Hardware; sound; QuickTime core components and QuickTime Player; QuickTime Streaming Server, RAdmin and other networking user interfaces; Design Awards 1996-2000. | Director of Advanced Design at Nokia in Sunnyvale, CA. Working on multimodality, speech technology, and design for mobile experiences. |
06/13/11 |
| Jesse Ellenbogen interaction design / usability testing elbow@pobox.com |
ATG HIG intern '92, Newton & PowerBook usability testing '93, eWorld '94-'95 | Leading DashJack iPod/car integration startup. Also occasional freelance usability testing, specializing in handheld devices. | 12/22/04 |
| Tom Erickson Interaction Design & Research snowfall@acm.org www.visi.com/~snowfall/ |
HIG 88-92; ATG HI 93-97 (UEAO; UEL; DAL). Projects: Publish - Subscribe; Rosebud (precursor to AppleSearch); Scribe (electronic notebook); 3D speech and gesture interface; et al. (see home page). | Tom telecommutes from Minneapolis to IBM's NY lab. He studies and network-mediated group communication systems, and is exploring the use of minimalist graphical representations of online activity called social proxies. | 6/7/07 |
Dave Evans |
HI Toolbox and SW Integration: 1991-2000 Drag Manager. PIM Apps. Mac SSW. |
Independent Consulting. Designed the Mirra Personal Server, now by Seagate, and web services. Also recently designed or revised two additional backup products, another appliance storage device, and virtualization software. | 6/05/07 |
| Bill Fernandez Consulting User Interface Architect Bill Fernandez Design bill@billfernandez.com www.billfernandez.com (505) 346-3080 |
Apple's first employee (Woz, Jobs and Markkula were the first "employers"). Hardware-related work for Apple 1 & 2, Mac 128K, etc. UI design for HyperCard, System 7, Finder, QuickTime, AppleScript, Ofoto, AppleFax, AppleScan, etc. | UI consultant based in Albuquerque with clients across the country. Most contracts are for web design, but also doing strategic business consulting. On board of directors of NM Information Technology and Software Association. | 12/22/04 |
Nancy Frishberg |
At Apple from Su'93 - Sp
'96 as a contractor in System Software, and Licensing Program Manager
in Newton |
UX strategist for hire. Currently, on a long term project doing user research for a financial services org (B to | 1/12/12 |
| Pabini Gabriel-Petit Principal & User Experience Architect Spirit Softworks pabini@spiritsoftworks.com www.spiritsoftworks.com (831) 809-0992 |
1992-93: Human Interface Engineer in Enterprise Systems Division of Apple. Designed user interfaces for networking products, including Apple Internet Router. | 2000-02: User Experience Manager at WebEx. Designed online meeting & collaboration software. 2003-04: Spirit Softworks, a user-experience design consultancy in Silicon Valley, specializing in the design of desktop & Web applications. | 5/5/04 |
| Mitchell Gass uLab | PDA mitchell@participatorydesign.com gass@acm.org www.participatorydesign.com +1 510 525-6864 (work) |
Developer Technical Publications, Instructional Products, and engineering groups as employee and contractor 87-98. MPW, Family Farm, Apple Events and AppleScript, Pen Macintosh, PowerShare, Apple Media Tool, and QuickTime. | Independent usability research and design consultant based in Berkeley, CA since 11/00 | 12/22/04 |
| Bill Gaver Interaction Design and Research w.gaver@gold.ac.uk |
HIG '87 - '88, intern & contractor. In the mid-90's I consulted and received support for the
Schedule Project at the RCA. |
Bill is a Senior Research Fellow at the Computer Related Design department at the Royal College of Art in London. I'm currently working on a number of projects producing speculative designs for electronic projects, including, especially, one looking at 'ludic' technology for homes. | 11/9/00 |
John Geleynse |
User Experience Evangelist 1999-2009, OS X HIG contributor, iOS HIG contributor, Apple Design Awards 2000-present | Technology Evangelism @ Apple | 02/01/14 |
| Don Gentner Human Interface Designer |
A/UX 1989-92. A/UX was the Macintosh interface and Finder running on top of UNIX. How's that for the past being father to the future? | Don passed away on Sunday, June 13, 2005. An account of his illness, concluding with an obituary and a brief account of his memorial service, can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/gentner/health.html | 0811/05 |
| Rob Girling UI designer email @microsoft.com failed 6/07 425 706 9559 |
ATG HIG Intern 92. Winner of the 92 Student Interface Design Competition, and Finalist in 93. | Joined Microsoft in 93. UI designer for MSOffice 95 & 97. Designer of 'Allegiance' online multiplayer game. Design Manager for Windows XP. Currently working on graphics technologies for future Windows releases. | 12/27/01 |
| Kate Gomoll Kate@GomollDesign.com www.gomolldesign.com |
HIG ATG 1988-90; Instructional Products 1991. Manager, HIG & User Studies, Taligent 1992. Projects: Online help research, speech interfaces, AppleGuide help development, usability testing, workshops on user-centered design. | Kate started her own consulting business in 1992. Gomoll Research & Design, Inc. is a consulting firm specializing in user-centered interface design. We're based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | 10/29/97 |
| Tom Gomoll Interface Design, Usability, + Research Tom@GomollDesign.com www.gomolldesign.com |
Instructional Products 1988-89.
Manager, User-aided Design Group 1990-92. Manager, Macintosh Human
Interface Group 1992-94 Projects: Pandora "Open-the-Box" study; Happy Mac (plug-and-play Mac); PowerBook user studies + design; Macintosh System Software 7.5 interface; HyperCard manual. |
Tom works at Gomoll Research & Design, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in human inteface design and usability for software and emerging technologies. We're doing some cool stuff on medical imaging, interactive TV, and electronic commerce. | 10/28/97 |
| Arno Gourdol Software Designer arno@arno.org |
Mac Look & Feel 92-93: intern on PenMac (a pen-based Mac). HIPC/Muse 94-97: Maxwell, open and save, document model, assistance, contextual menus... 96-96: lead HI engineer for Mac OS 8 (Finder, appearance...) | After a brief return to the land of fine wine and ripe cheese, I'm back at Apple teaching amazing new tricks to the Finder. | 4/14/98 |
| Mike Graves Research & Systems Design mgraves@pobox.com |
ATG 1989 to 1991: Collaborative Desktop project (*Chorus*). Apple University 1991 to 1994: NNable and Electronic Campus. ATG 1994 to 1997: India Healthcare Project and Need2Know | Manages patent program, and works in other innovation and intellectual property issues at Intuit | 6/11/07 |
| Sally Grisedale Senior Director Product Design Yahoo, Sunnyvale California sally_grisedale@yahoo.com (h) 650 298 9565 |
Interface Design Input to following projects: 93 - Reminders, Lucretia, Tea; 94 - 3Desque (Mac OS with shadows); 95 - India HealthCare Project; 96 - Project X - navigable meta space; 97 - Managed Interaction Design Team, Big Table Project | 1998 Interaction Design Director,
Studio Archetype 1999 Senior User Interface Designer, Excite Corp. |
1/5/05 |
| Dan Gruen Cognitive Science/ User Experience Design dan_gruen@lotus.com (617) 693-5786 |
Observational research and
field studies on everyday activities and interruptions with folks
at ATG while getting my PhD in Cognitive Science at UCSD under Don
Norman. |
Research Scientist at Lotus working with stories in design, synchronous groupware, portable devices, information visualization. Planning a design competition modeled in part on the Apple Design Projects. | 1/18/00 |
| Alexander Grunsteidl Interaction Architect ageweb@gmail.com |
Joined in 95 on the India Healthcare Project including various Newton technology driven interface explorations. Together with the Interaction Design team prototyped the Big Table Project. | From 1998 til 2005, Senior Interaction Architect at IDEO in London. Founded digitalwellbeinglabs.com in 2005 together with partner, who he met at as part of the Apple Design Project 10 years earlier. We are redefining the physical retail experience of consumer electronics and services in the age of internet. | 7/23/06 |
Philip Haine |
Claris Interface Design Group 1994 - 1997 - lead interaction designer. Designed Claris Organizer 2.0 (now Palm Desktop), ClarisImpact, ClarisDraw. Consulted on many more including ClarisEmailer & FileMaker. | Founded Obvious Design in 1997, a San Francisco interactive product design and product vision consultancy. Past clients: Gap Inc, Broderbund, Akamai, Palm Computing, Adobe, Yahoo!, Autodesk and Intuit. Editor, Steal This Idea. | 6/05/07 |
Austin Henderson |
Managed the User Interface Laboratory (June 95-April 96), and the Discourse Architecture Laboratory (May 96-March 97). Personal Focus on co-production of activity by people and their machines.. |
Director, Knowledge Management, in research (AC&T) at Pitney Bowes. Responsible for people in research knowing what others are doing, and in supporting the connection with the lines of business. | 6/06/07
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| Charlie Hill User Interface chill@lotus.com 617 693 5046 (work) |
ATG Human Interface Group,
then User Experience Research, 92-97. Focused on designing and prototyping
coordination environments - tools for managing your activities and
interations with others - and hardware-software integration. |
At Lotus in Cambridge, MA. Product Design Architect for web-based teamware applications. Recently shipped Instant!TEAMROOM 1.5, a rentable browser-based discussion tool for inter-organizational teams. | 8/25/98 |
| Avril Hodges User Centered Design email @openwave.com failed 12/01 w 650 817 6716 c 650 281 1030 |
HIG 1987-88, GFX/Instructional Products 1989-91. Mac icons 1987-88, UI design for various Desk Accessories. UI design lead for Hypercard 2.0 Help, Macintosh Basics, Balloon Help, initiated work on designing the font family for Apple Guides. | Since 9/99. Manager of usability testing for Openwave worldwide. Design and usability testing of browser and applications for wireless devices. | 12/28/01 |
| Pat Holleran Software Developer holleran@alumni.nd.edu holleran@shannontech.com |
1989-1997. Managed HI groups in Networking & Communications, Enterprise Systems, Collaborative Systems, and the Internet Products Group. Projects included System 7 networking, AppleShare, Apple Remote Access, PowerTalk, Cyberdog, several dozen others. Served as project manager and Engineering Lead on Cyberdog. | AT&T Labs, 1998-1999. Now principal, Shannon Technologies, developer of software based on Cocoa, Carbon, Java, and Internet technologies. | 1/1/02 |
| Matt Holloway User Experience/Product Strategies designsamurai@mac.com |
Was in ATG as design lead on Dewey and helped develop Activity Based Computing paradigms and information appliances. Before ATG, I managed the Apple Business Systems UI team. | In 2005 took over SAP's Design Services Team, a design strategy and business consulting team reporting directly to the CEO. Consulting with SAP?s executives, customers, and creating university partnerships for design. | 6/05/07 |
| Lisa Holzhauser email @philips.com failed 12/01 650.846.4315 650.846.4545 (fax) |
UAD '90 - '93 & HIDC '93 - '97. Worked mostly on Imaging projects (cameras, scanners, printers, displays) but also on sound and hardware/software integration issues. | Reported to be at Intuit as of December 2003. | 12/3/03 |
| Stephanie Houde Product Designer shoude@bitstream.com |
At Apple I was a member of the Advanced Technology Group. I spent most of my time designing interfaces for multimedia and 3D authoring tools. | Now I'm the Director of Product Design at Bitstream, Inc. in Boston. I'm designing a suite of authoring tools for variable, data base driven publishing. | 4/19/99 |
| Channing Hughes email @earthlink.net failed 6/07 |
Instructional Products (editor, writer, manager, localization manager), 1987-2000. Worked on a wide variety of hardware and software products. AppleWorks team (HI designer, engineering project manager), 2000-2001. | Just finished master's in conservation biology. Currently doing volunteer wildlife conservation field work in southern Africa for a few months. Plan to continue my schooling in Fall of 2006. | 1/15/06 |
| Eric A. Hulteen user interface design web.hulteen.com/eric |
The only member of the Human Interface Group (HIG) from inception (1985) to demise (1993). After HIG I remained in ATG until its termination in September 1997. | Looking for a full-time user experience design position in the San Francisco Bay Area. | 7/06/09 |
| Scott Jenson Human Interface Designer Scott@Jenson.org www.jenson.org www.jensondesign.com |
1988-1992 System Software Human Interface (lots of 7.0 work) Started WHIM by having lunch with Annette Wager. 1992-1997 Joined Newton group and worked on designed many of Newton and EMate applications. | Living in Minneapolis doing freelance consulting work for consumer electronic and mobile phone companies. Professional site is www.jensondesign.com | 12/22/04 |
Todd Junkin |
Video production and support of all HIG events and ATG events. Video Engineering for all ATG labs including HIG lab. WWDC content producer and live show guy. | Currently TJmedia Consulting LLC. SEM, SEO and Video Production. Currently working with a large search company in Mountain View on design, engineering, producing, and directing projects that need that video janitor touch. : ) | 6/05/07 |
| Lori Kaplan UI Designer lekaplan@jps.net |
1986-1996: UI and documentation for hardware, system software and developer tools. Authored MHIG with the assistance and support of the Apple HI community. | Joined Netscape (again) in November '01. Managing the UI design group working on the next generation of browser, email, calendar, IM, and composer products. | 12/27/01 |
| Kevin Knabe kevin@knabedesign.com 215.489.7369 |
Instructional Products 1988-1998. Did usability testing of user manuals and online help. Designed the HI for the Apple Help Viewer. | User Experience Architect at Rodale, in eastern PA. Doing IA and user research for RunnersWorld.com. (See www.knabedesign.com.) | 6/05/07
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| Matthew Leacock Interaction Designer mleacock@mac.com mattl@yahoo-inc.com www.leacock.com |
Claris Interface Design Group, September 1997 to March 1998. | Principal interaction designer for Yahoo! working on community products. Prior to Yahoo! was at Netscape/AOL from 1998 to 2004. | 01/02/06 |
| Frank Leahy Web Tools Engineering frank@backtalk.com cornwall.backtalk.com/ |
Mr. Menu Manager on the Mac II (86-87); 3 1/2 years on Pink (the project that was always 2 years away) (87-91); ATG HIG on Scribe (91-92); and WALT, the screen-based telephone (92-93). | After returning from 2 years in the UK, I joined Genius.com, leaving as Director of Engineering. In May 2007 I moved to Federated Media where I am also Director of Engineering. | 6/25/07 |
| Jean-Luc Lebrun jllebrun@mac.com www.scientific-presentations.com |
ATG: Scripted the first Apple Video on Apple User Interface with Joy Mountford and Don Norman. Known as "Agent Pierre" to the Apple developers attending the WWDC; Main job: Excite Apple customers and developers by displaying Apple's advanced Technology worldwide. | Trainer for Agency for Science Technology and Research in Singapore. Author of "Scientific Writing, a reader and writer's guide,World Scientific, 2007. What should written science read like if scientists applied HI principles to writing. | 10/15/09 |
| Nicole Leduc Manager, Voice interface Services, Nuance leduc@nuance.com 650.847-7181 |
Apple History: ATG contractor 1990-95, mostly to HIG and HIDC, doing user studies/usability testing (Ansel, Pippin, Eager, Eiger,and assorted interfaces) and video production. | Designing voice user interfaces for speech recognition applications (voice internet/voice browser products) and conducting user research, as well as trouble shooting and consulting. Also having lots of fun! | 1/2/02 |
| Ron Lichty RonLichty@sbcGlobal.net www.members.aol.com/RonLichty/ (h) 415-564-2697 |
Development Tools Product Marketing '88-'89; Apple IIGS HI/engineer/manager '90-'91; Mac Finder manager '91-'94. Projects: Apple IIGS System 6 Finder, et al. Macintosh System 7.1 and 7.5 Finders, et al.; OS 8 Finder. | VP Eng, Forensic Logic, San Francisco. Previously managed development at Razorfish, Berkeley Systems (screen savers), Schwab, Fujitsu (WorldsAway), and mFactory (mTropolis), and product management at Macromedia (Flex). | 08/18/06 |
| Don Lindsay Director, Design for Microsoft Live Labs dlindsay@microsoft.com 425.722.5998 |
Kicked off the Mac OS X design initiative and directed the UX team through the first four releases of OS X. Directly contributed to Mac OS 8.0 through 10.3. | Since Apple, shipped another little operating system; Windows Vista. Am currently building a new UX team for Microsoft Live Labs focused on rapid deployment of new internet technologies, services and search experiences. Always looking for talent. | 6/05/07 |
| Alex Liston alexliston@yahoo.com |
From Jun'91 to Feb'97: ATG
HIG, UAD, Taligent HIT, and HIDC. |
I currently manage a multi-disciplinary UI design team at TiVo. | 7/17/07 |
| Frank Ludolph Interaction design email @mac.com failed 6/5/07 (408)343-1975 |
Lisa '80-'83, ATG '83-'90,
Pink '90-'92. Lisa Desktop Manager (Filer), Fabrik end-user programming,
Pink desktop |
Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park. Working on UIs for various bits of Solaris |
7/10/07 |
| Bryan MacDonald Director, Product Development, Maximus bmacondald@mac.com www.maximus.com |
PowerSchool 2000-2003, Product Design Manager for PowerSchool Enterprise (WebObjects-based Student information system). Scout project (online gradebook) functional requirements and visuals approval. | Managing QA, design, software engineering, and documentation teams for Education Systems division of MAXIMUS, focused on SchoolMAX product line. J2EE version of SchoolMAX is being deployed at Los Angeles Unified School District, #2 in the US. | 4/15/05 |
| Richard Mander richard.mander@zanzara.com www.zanzara.com |
Human Interface, Interactive Media, and QuickTime Groups. Usability Engineering on future OS, digital cameras, projectors, multimedia, PIMs, and workplace systems. Managed QuickTime VR team through version 2.0, a cross platform API for immersive photo-reality. | Principal at Zanzara, a consulting company providing customer research, usability engineering, and interface design to Fortune 500 and startup companies. Recently authored 'Web Usability for Dummies'. | 12/27/01 |
| Anne McClard amcclard@mindspring.com |
'93 Intern in HIG. I think
I was the first anthropologist hired at Apple, immediately preceeding
others (Mimi, Nardi, and Anderson) Projects included the Westin Hotel
Study and Reminders. |
I've finished my ethnographic novel and am looking for a publisher. I am working for a company called Doxus (www.doxus.com) that specializes in strategic market research--still technology focused, still using ethnographic methods. | 12/31/04 |
| Tim McCollum email @hollinet.com failed 6/07 |
Worked at Apple from 94-97. Worked on AppleShare IP 5.0, Palio, MacOS 8. File Sharing. Later managed the HIDC usability labs; managed the Rhapsody tools group; worked on Rhapsody network administration tools. | Working at Hewlett Packard with Don Norman. Defining the next generation of computing devices: information appliances. | 3/9/98 |
| Desiree McCrorey User Interface Architect Extraordinaire ddmcc@yahoo.com |
1993 - 1994 Apple's Networking & Communications products (Macintosh Application Environment, Apple Remote Access, etc.) | Currently UI Architect & Web Producer at Healthline.com | 6/05/07 |
| Sue McGarry User Interface Design smcgarry@qualcomm.com |
Started in '95. Worked on never-shipping revision to Open Transport control panels. '97, took on Navigation Services. '98, took over the Finder when Larry Cornett left. | UE Product Mgr at MediaFLO USA, Qualcomm's Mobile TV division | 7/12/08 |
| Alison M. Mettler User Interface Designer email @adobe.com failed 12/01 |
Human Interface Designer in the HIDC and ABS groups from 1994-1997. Projects: HyperCard 3.0, QuickTime, AppleShare Client for Windows, AppleSearch Client for Windows, CD+ Audio Player, Radio Tuner application. | Senior Interaction Designer at PalmSource/ACCESS designing mobile software solutions for handheld devices as well as desktop applications. | 05/19/06 |
| Gordon Meyer Human Interface Engineer grmeyer@apple.com (408) 974-6951 |
Instructional Products 1996-present. | HI for Apple Help, Tutorials, and User Assistance-related projects. | 12/22/04 |
| Susan Michalak Interaction Designer emai @attbi.com failed 6/07 503/297-5792 |
HIDC '94-'97, CPU Software '97-'99. Apple Trackpad I & II, Hollywood, PowerBook G3, docking stations, PowerBook control panels, Apple Airport, USB and Firewire guidelines. | Susan worked at Intel (from '99 to mid-'01) on wireless networking (Bluetooth and 802.11b) and usability measurement tools. Susan now works as a consultant. She lives with her husband and two cats in Portland. | 1/21/02 |
| Dana Schneider Miller User Experience Research Manager, Yahoo! Inc. email@yahoo-inc.com failed 6/5/07 (408)328-7630 |
Intern, Summer 1995, HIDC, worked on text-to-speech in ATG | Manage the User Experience & Research group, which supports the usability and field study research for all of Yahoo!'s U.S. .com products. | 11/6/00 |
| Justin Miller Senior Vice President, Product Management and Design. Move Inc. Justin.miller@move.com justin@millerz.com 408-628-8487 408-916-1338 (Skype in) |
ABS and HIDC as intern from '93-95. Then HIDC as a real employee until late '97, worked on Cyberdog primarily, also other internet products and Rhapsody. | Leading the Product Management and Design organization at Move Inc. Responsible for Realtor.com, Move.com, and several other sites. Living in the bay area. |
12/13/07 |
Mark Miller |
I joined ATG in June, 1988 to begin a project called Business Learning Research. At various times I managed larger groups and served as Director of a lab which focused on learning in a variety of contexts. I left in May, 1997. | President and Executive Director of The Miller Institute for Learning with Technology (dba learningtech.org). We help school districts, non-profits, and educational technology vendors with: technology plan preparation; staff development; network design, implementation, and troubleshooting; and grant applications. | 12/22/04 |
Mike Mills |
1989 - 94. HIG: Headed Dynamic Documents project that pioneered digital video and utlimately became QuickTime. Original QuickTime team: Lead designer of the HI; other projects included Virtual 3D Scenes and Interactive QuickTime. | After 4 years at Stanford, I joined Yahoo in 2005. I’m now Director of User Experience in the Advanced Products group (as opposed to the common, ordinary products). Finally moved off my sailboat after 5 years, but still have my daysailer. | 6/08/07 |
| Elizabeth Robinson Moller emoller at standfordalumni dot org |
Apple History: Finder HI person after John Sullivan. Worked on much of the original Finder and Appearance design that went into System 8. | Currently a part-time consultant, working with lots of former Apple HI folks! | 6/05/07 |
| Joy Mountford |
Now at Yahoo | 11/14/97 | |
| Bonnie Nardi
nardi@ics.uci.edu www.artifex.org/~bonnie/ |
Worked in ATG from 1993-97 on Data Detectors, the Lincoln High Digital Photography CD-ROM, and Teaching Digital Photography for High School teachers, an online course. | I'm a faculty member at UC Irvine. My newest book (with Victor Kaptelinin) is Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design. I'm studying role playing games (I'm a level 70 Night Elf priest in World of Warcraft) and investigating business applications of Second Life. | 7/10/07 |
Per Nielsen |
Copland Workspaces, Mac OS 8 Finder, Rhapsody | Manage the User Experience Group at MediaFLO USA | 06/23/08 |
| Don Norman don@jnd.org norman@nngroup.com www.jnd.org www.nngroup.com |
Apple Fellow, 1993-97. User Experience Architect, 1993-96. Vice President, ATG/Apple Labs, 1996-97. | Don moves on, emphasizing pleasure and enjoyment, not just utility and usability. He serves on multiple advisory boards, co-directs a joint MBA/Engineering program at Northwestern (mmm.northwestern.edu), which means his dream of combining design, efficient operations and engineering, and the world of business is now coming true. He is active with his company, the Nielsen Norman group. His latest book is The Design of Future Things. | 6/05/06
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| Dan O'Sullivan dan.osullivan@nyu.edu itp.nyu.edu/~dano |
Intern during the summer of 1991. Worked with the Quicktime team developing "Navigable Movies" (QTVR). | In a desperate attempt to become Mike Mills, I went back to teach at NYU. Now Associate Chair at ITP | 6/05/07 |
| Kerry Ortega Human Interface Design kortega@us.ibm.com |
HIDC - '95-97' HI designer on OpenDoc. HI designer of the quicktime movie/VR part, 3D part, and text part. Unfortunately, Apple killed it in March of 1997. | I'm a UI designer at IBM in Raleigh working on tools for managing servers (e.g. monitoring hardware errors, CPU usage, real-time power usage, viewing trend information for a single server or group of server, etc.). |
7/24/07 |
| Jim Palmer jim@jpalmer.org |
Instructional Products: HyperScan, HyperCard, Apple Guide; HIDC: Casper, MASH, Copland. | Manager of Human Interface at Liberate Technologies doing TV/Web convergence stuff and other information appliances. | 12/27/01 |
| Paige K. Parsons Principal Consultant Emma Jane Consulting paige@emmajane.com www.emmajane.com (650) 320-8822 |
UI Architect for Apple Dylan (92-95) at the now defunct Cambridge ATG in Cambridge, MA. UI designer at HIDC from 95-96. Initially working with the PowerBook division, and then with the MUSE UI team on internet integration in the MacOS. | Consulting on a part-time basis. | 6/05/07 |
| Rod Perkins email @canalus.com failed 6/07 408-961-4014 |
Lisa '79-'83: LisaDraw, LisaCalc, UI Toolkits, Classcal; ERG '83 Early Apple research group; ATG 87-'92: Spider collaborative work & multimedia network, QuickTime Videoconferencing; PIE '93: Interactive Television, EzTV implementation | I am now principle software architect at Canal Plus, a french owned cable company that is trying to introduce ITV into the US market place.We are doing several things that are similar to the EzTV and other early ITV ideas. | 7/5/01 |
Rachel Powers |
2001-2003 Human Interface Design for iTools/.mac & iApps (Cupertino) and PowerSchool (Folsom). | Founder and Principal Designer of Visde in Chicago, IL. |
6/08/07 |
| Blaine Price Lecturer in Computing The Open University, UK B.A.Price@open.ac.uk www.open.ac.uk |
HIG Summer intern'89 with Penny Bauersfeld working on 3D (Munsell) color picker | Went to England in 1991 for a year and forgot to come back. Current research is in Privacy and Data Protection, esp. in ubiquitous computing. Married an Irish lass and we have 2-4 children (born from 1984-2000). | 03/15/05 |
| Eric Quakenbush Human Interface Designer eric@q-design.com www.q-design.com |
Worked in the GFX group in
instructional Products from 87-93 as an Interface Designer. Worked
on the Macintosh Electronic Tutorials, a myriad of Mac Basics Tours,
HyperCard 2.0 Help, HyperScan 2.0 |
Quakenbush Design now has offices in California and Hawaii and has been specializing in UI and IA design for useful web-based apps and interactiveTV products. | 6/22/07 |
| Gene Z. Ragan UI Technical Director at PDI/Dreamworks Animation diskzero@mac.com |
Came to Apple in 2001 as part of the Eazel exodus. Joined the "User Experience" group working on Finder, Spotlight and implicit query research. Left in 2007. |
Working at PDI/Dreamworks helping direct the look and usability of proprietary tools used to create feature-length animated films. | 7/05/07 |
Cordell Ratzlaff |
At Apple '90-'99. Designed
interfaces for networking, communications, Internet, and system software
products. Managed various human interface groups including N&C,
Apple Business Systems, HIDC, HIG.` |
Currently leading the design of Cisco's desktop and mobile VoIP phones, and audio, video, and web collaboration products. | 8/12/07 |
| Michal Anne Rogondino Chief Creative Officer Interface designer Rocket Communications, Inc. email @rocketcom.com failed 6/07 www.rocketcom.com (415)863-0101 x31 |
Intern '89 - '90 with GFX, Pink, Blue (Color Map, icons, etc...). UI & VI design consultant '90 - '97 for Merlin HR tool, Powerbook Group (Control Strip, File Assistant...), Future Share, MacTV, & many others... | Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Rocket Communications (Rocket), Graphical User Interface (GUI) design studio for Fortune 500 and smaller companies, including AOL, Autodesk, Cisco, eBay, HP, Motorola, PalmSource, Sun. | 4/9/04 |
| Janice Anne Rohn Manager, Usability Labs and Services email @siebel.com failed 6/07 (650)786-6367 |
Macintosh HIG '90-'92--usability engineer and designer on System 7.0, QuickTime, Quadras, Powerbooks. Also created an interface class for AppleU. | Started Usability Engineering group at Sun, designed and built usability labs in Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Colorado. Offer usability and design services across Sun and also for outside Sun customers. | 11/4/00 |
John Rohrlich |
HIG 1989-1991. The Pen-Mac project 1992. Finder Team 1993-1995. | Development lead at the National Center for Genome Resources followed by work at Applied Biosystems as Chief Architect and then a few years at BEA Systems as a product architect . Currently looking for another paid adventure. | 6/05/07
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Arlo Rose |
'93 - '97, HIDC and HIT: Helped create prototypes for future technologies. Was HI Lead on Theme based Appearance and, Mac OS 8 Appearance and Toolbox projects. Designed the Mac OS 8.5 aural interface. | Since Apple I've founded and folded three startups, worked on making Linux easier to use, encryption for anyone, and consumer server UIs. Currently working on Widget technology at Yahoo! as part of the acquisition of my product Konfabulator. | 11/29/05 |
| Daniel M. Russell User Experience in the large; sensemaking DMRussell@acm.org 650-858-0864 |
Joined Apple ATG in July 1993 to work on intelligent agents and UIs. Set up the User Experience Research group in mid-1994 and managed it until March, 1997 when I formed the Knowledge Management Technology lab. | Now at Google in the Search Quality group, building a user-side experience data team to collect and interpret user behavior to search quality engineering. Bridging UI design, usability, consumer products and research. | 12/28/01 |
| Harry Saddler Interaction Designer saddler@email.arc.nasa.gov http://harrysaddler.com harry@harrysaddler.com |
ATG: User Experience Research group; ATG Design Research group; User Experience Architect's Office; Director of Apple Design Project '94, '95, '96. Developer Press Electronic Media Group (Making It Macintosh HI CD). | UE architect at NASA Ames Research Center, designing a component-based user experience for present (International Space Station) and future (Constellation) mission control. Previously Chief Info Architect at Sun, Dir. of Technology at MetaDesign, and staff researcher at Xerox PARC. | 6/19/07 |
| Gitta Salomon Interaction Designer gitta@swimstudio.com www.swimstudio.com 415.477.8624 415.391.0271 (fax) |
HIG August 1987 through November 1993. Projects included: demos for the first Apple CD-ROM player, color neural net, "Rosebud" (precursor to AppleSearch), "Sybil" - future desktop interfaces, "EWig" - adaptive interfaces. | Gitta is currently principal of Swim Interaction Design Studio, a design consultancy, based in San Francisco. | 10/5/98 |
Amy Satran |
Instructional Products, '87-'92.
Wrote Mac tutorials & reference materials in various media. "Experimental" documentation. |
Managing Director, Ignition, Inc., San Francisco. We're an interactive product design firm that specializes in solving complex communication/ interactive design problems for clients in business, education, and the nonprofit sector. | 8/16/99 |
| Sara Sazegari Sr. Human Factors Specialist sara_sazegari@intuit.com 650 944-2938 |
ATG, HIG 1988 - 1992. Taligent 1992 - 1995. Independant consultant 1995 - 1996. HIDC 1996-1997 | Left WebMD in February of 2001. Currently at Intuit, since March 2001 | 8/6/01 |
Kurt Schmucker |
Scientific Computing Project '88-92. ATG HIG '92-94. ATG Applications Technology Group '94-96. Learning Technology Group '97-'98. K-12 Education Marketing, '98-'00. | Was VP for Mac Products at Connectix, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. Now Senior Mac evangelist in the Mac team at Microsoft. | 8/25/08 |
| Geoff Schuller User Interface Designer ImGeoff2@aol.com |
I joined the OpenDoc Design team in 1995, released OpenDoc 1.0, designed several OpenDoc "parts" (Draw, Sound, ImageViewer) and worked w/ lots of other great folks throughout all of Apple. | Currently at FileMaker, Inc designing the next-generation FileMaker Pro products. Prior to my current job (and since Apple), I've worked at Claris, Adobe, Flashpoint and Calico Commerce. | 6/05/07 |
| Eduardo Sciammarella Senior Interface Designer 212-833-6420 (phone) 212-833-6426 (fax) |
Sony Design Center | 126 5th Ave. 2nd flr | NY NY, 10011 | 3/27/98 | |
| Abi Sellen Senior Researcher Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) ASellen@microsoft.com |
HIG summer intern in the summers of '87 and '88. Worked on help systems, 2D controllers for 3D objects, and input devices for the laptop. | Now at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, where I co-manage a group with Richard Harper called "Socio-Digital Systems". | 1/22/07 |
| Royston Sellman Motorcycle Mechanic royston@hpl.hp.com w:+44 (0)117 992 8472 h:+44 (0)114 266 0907 |
'93-'97 Projects: SK8: mondo programming leviathan (Apple's attempt to boost semiconductor RAM industry); Catalyst: <secret purpose> app (so good the press got screen dumps before we even built it); Lens: World's largest (and best) AppleScript. | HP Labs, Bristol, UK. Working on portable internet gadgets. But HP make those defibrillator things they have in 'ER' so I'm trying for a transfer. | 1/10/98 |
| Lynn Shade lynn@studioshade.com |
HIG '95 to '97. Japan liaison working with Apple Tech on Kotoeri (Japanese Input Method), Korean and Chinese Input Method research, Japanese theme project, etc.. Claris '92 to '95. | Artist. | 6/08/07 |
Mark Shurtleff |
FileMaker Interaction Designer for 1 year. Worked on UI for FileMaker Pro5, FileMaker Server, FileMaker 5 Unlimited Servlet, and FileMaker futures prototype. | I am now a member of the user experience group at PeopleSoft -- Oracle as of Dec 28, 2004 -- in Pleasanton CA. I encourage people to "linkin" to me at mark.shurtleff@gmail.com | 6/05/07 |
Robin Silberling |
1987 - 1991: HyperCard team – Q/A, some UI, and example stacks in 2.0. 1991 - 1993: Pink/Taligent UI team. |
1993 – 1995: BAM! Software (educational multimedia); 1995 – 1998: Netscape Client and Server UI teams (Browser and server products); 1998 – 2002: Allegis (B2B Enterprise web app); 2003 + Freelance/consulting in Austin, Texas |
7/05/07 |
| Michael Elliot Silver email @silvers.org failed 6/7/07 www.silvers.org |
At Apple 89-95. Designed the UI for AppleLink 6.0 and 6.1. Did design work on eWorld. Design work praised by Don Norman. Wrote book "Inside CCL." Managed AppleLink Development, International Software Development, and Communications and Connectivity Engineering groups. See more at http://www.silvers.org/resume.html. | CIO of the Portola Group,
Inc. (www.portolagroup.com) Founder, acting CIO of NetLens, Inc. (www.netlens.com) |
1/17/00 |
| Nancy Silver Interaction Designer nancy@nectarinegroup.com www.nectarinegroup.com/ 650 325 6800 |
ATG User Experience Group
94-95. Projects: Trimline, a hardware-software integration research
project; Timestore, a time-based visualization of email. |
A principal at Nectarine Group, a user experience design firm that works exclusively with technology companies to design easy to use and enjoyable software for the digital home and mobile domains.. | 6/05/07 |
| Melissa Sleeter Senior Interaction Designer melissasleeter@mac.com 408-269-4884 |
13 years at Apple. Macintosh Tutorial & OpenDoc for Instructional Products '92-'96. HIDC '96-'97. Senior Designer/Manager for Apple's Server UI group '97-'05: Apple Remote Desktop, Xsan, generations of Mac OS X Server. |
Currently on hiatus. Update when available. | 11/21/08 |
| Ian Small external@cogentmind.com 408.888.4831 |
Apple '89-'95. HIG '89-'93: animation at the interface, QuickTime, digital cameras/Ansel, iTV, adaptive interfaces/eWig, SweetPea UI (on loan to PIE). QuickTime VR '94-'95: Turned vision into reality, shipped v1.0, and left soon after. | Now Vice President, Products at Mark Logic Corporation, a startup trying to do for document content what the relational database does for tables. | 10/8/04 |
| David C. Smith |
Red (next generation Mac); OpenDoc (component software); KidSim (programming by children); after demise of ATG, cofounded Stagecast Software and produced a commercial version of KidSim called Creator (see www.stagecast.com). | No longer a computer scientist. Now an amateur photographer and historian. Sold our house and bought an RV in which my wife and I have been traveling around the continent since 7/04. | 12/17/07 |
Mitch Stein |
Mac Developer '84-'93. Director, Human Interface Technologies '93-'96 (Included HI Design Center & HI Product Center [Finder, Chooser, Installer, etc.], Cyberdog, Speech Products, Jonathan, Program Director for Edison OS, ...) | Digital Video Recorders, music players & home networking @ Home-Run (96-97); IBM Research, Sr. Manager of consumer Systems and Software (97-02); Consulting et al. @ SteinDesign (02-05). | 8/10/07 |
| Paulien Strijland Sr. Director of Engineering paulien@fastmail.fm 650 854 7567 (h) |
1989-1997 HIDC. Worked in various capacities, managing HIDC for many years. Helped ship many products, including all OS releases from 7.0 through 8.5. Director User Experience Design and Quality Management from 1997 - 1999. | Sr. Director of Engineering at Netflip, a web-based direct marketing company. Enjoying life at a start-up and learning lots about advertising. | 10/20/02 |
| John Sullivan john@ruasullivan.com |
At Apple '88 - '92. Scott Jenson and I were the two founding members of System Software HIG, later known as HIDC. Worked on innumerable aspects of System 7 HI, especially Finder. | AAfter leaving Apple, designed & implemented software at General Magic, Electric Communities, WebTV, and Eazel, Inc. Since 2001 back at Apple working on Safari. | 7/10/07 |
| Dag Svanaes Assistant Professor email @ifi.ntnu.no failed 6/07 www.ifi.ntnu.no/~dags/ |
In the fall of '96 I was a visiting scholar at Apple ATG in Sphorer/Cypher's group during a sabbatical. I was originally invited in by Stephanie Houde. I did work related to KidSim, SK8, and on the phenomenology of interaction. | I'm an assistant professor in Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. I teach Interaction Design and Object-Oriented Programming. My professional interests, besides phenomenology, are Tangible User Interfaces and End-User Programming. | 4/23/99 |
| Stan Taylor stan_taylor@intuit.com stanleyt@pacbell.net 650-944-6967 (w) (408)227-7052(h) |
I started in '96 with HIDC.
I worked on HI for system software from OS 7.6 through OS X 10.3. |
Currently working on QuickBooks
at Intuit, enjoying a great user centered design focus and working with former colleagues from Apple and IBM, and others. |
1/16/04 |
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Larry Tesler |
Lisa Applications Mgr '80-'82; User Interface Council Chair '81-'82; Founding VP ATG '86-'90; VP Newton/PIE '90-'93; Chief Scientist '93-'97; AIS/eWorld CTO '95; VP AppleNet '96; 'Final VP, ATG, '97. | Product Fellow at 23andMe. Working on user experience and innovation. | 6/24/09 |
| Bruce Tognazzini Web Design email @asktog.com failed 6/07 www.asktog.com |
Apple History: Employee #66. July, 1978, to March, 1992. Started hi design, hi testing, hi group. Published 40+ applications. Wrote various manuals and books. Last job: Human Interface Evangelist. | Principal, Nielsen Norman Group. Publisher, www.asktog.com | 10/3/00 |
| Michael W. Tschudy User Experience & Product Strategy Consultant mchewd@yahoo.com 650.218.4077 |
ATG: '93 Personal Apple Library;
Apple Soft: '93 Graphing Calculator, Installer; ATG: '93-'97 Frogger,
India Healthcare Project |
Providing UE/Product Design and Management Strategy consulting to a variety of companies in the Networking, Enterprise and Consumer Markets. | 4/14/04 |
| Jeff Tycz jeff@nectarinegroup.com www.nectarinegroup.com 650-325-6800 x121 |
Visual and Interaction design. Macintosh HIG, Summer '92, ATG HIG '93, Consultant to Apple with Alben+Faris '92-'96, Quicktime VR & AHIG System Software UI Group '96-'97. | A principal at Nectarine Group, a user experience design firm that works exclusively with technology companies to design easy to use and enjoyable software for the digital home and mobile domains. Recently been working on IPTV, PVR, and GPS products. | 06/05/06 |
| Leslie Carlson Vaughan User Interface Designer email @acm.org failed 6/7 |
Worked 2 years at Claris as a Visual Interface designer. Worked primarily on Claris Home Page, among other projects. Continued to work at FileMaker Inc., left July 1998. | Working on a start up opportunity in addition to UI consulting. | 1/20/00 |
| Gina (nee Dan) Venolia Interaction Designer gina@dragonmoon.net research.microsoft.com/~ginav/ www.dragonmoon.net/gina/changes.html |
Fifteen years at Apple. Shipped LisaTerminal, developed Mac mouse acceleration algorithms, lead Apple Game Sprockets. Lots of 3D work, including Toy Box and QD3D UI Guidelines. Pen Mac (Rosetta). ATG '83-'95, HIG '92-'94 (?). | Started at Microsoft Research in October '98 in the Speech group. Now working on social computing and communication interfaces. | 11/10/00 |
| Harry Vertelney Sun Labs Individual Contributor harry.vertelney@sun.com harry@vertelney.com |
Individual Contributor and Manager in ATG 1985 thru 1992. Spider (multimedia collab. computing), Smartifacts (task specific computing), Talk To My House, Created Applications Laboratory 1987, Systems Technology Group | DARPA-HPCS Program - part of the administration and operations team. HPCS is about high productivity computing (aka super computing) though moving ahead, we want to make them easier to program and more available; more productive. | 12/22/04 |
Laurie Vertelney |
HIG '87-'94; Projects: Scribe (electronic notebook), Ansel (digital photography), Stamps (interface for tagging), Interfaces for Small Computers. | Director of User Experience Design at Nectarine Group-a user experience design firm that works exclusively with technology companies to design easy to use consumer software, websites, digital home and mobile products. | 07/08/08 |
| David Vronay Creative Director Microsoft Advanced Technology Center in Beijing davevr@microsoft.com research.microsoft.com/acid |
1987 to 1992. One of the developers of SK8. Later moved on to the HyperMovie effort, with Mills, Leo, Stephanie, and Lili. | I am currently the Creative Director at Microsoft's Advanced Technology Center in Beijing, China. I also run the design studio here. Feel free to come visit! | 6/05/07 |
| Annette Wagner Human Interface Human annette.wagner@sun.com anet@anet26.com www.anet26.com wk: 408.276.7609 |
The Lisa computer typefaces and iconic language, MacDraw II, the Finder 5.3 through 7.0 alpha HI prototypes, the first One-Button Installer, the Pink team (which later became Taligent), etc. 1981 - 1992. | Senior User Experience Lead for the Client Software Group in the consumer mobile area. Focus is on strategy and future directions. Products include JavaME MIDP standard which is on millions of cell phones around the world. . |
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Bill Walker |
Intern in the the Distributed Objects Group (6 months): worked on a framework for building distributed OpenDoc part editors. User Experience Research group (2.5 years): built groupware prototypes using AppleScript, C++, and Java. | Now at Reactivity, the leading provider of deployment infrastructure used by enterprises to realize the promise of Web services. Update: eactivity was aquired by Cisco in March 2007. | 6/22/07 |
| Todd Warfel Principal User Experience Architect twarfel@messagefirst.com (607) 339-9640 |
Consulted on Apple's QuickTime
gallery Web site. |
Principal User Experience Architect at Message First - a small consulting firm in NY specializing in user research, information architecture, interaction / interface design, and usability. Give us a call. | 10/14/03 |
| Tim Wasko Visual Interaction Designer wasko@apple.com 408.974.3743 |
Came over from NeXT in '97, Web Applications group. HIG '97-'00: Worked on Rhapsody, OS X DP1 through DP4 , Public Beta. Visual design of Quicktime 4.0 and iMovie 2.0. | Apple Applications Group '00-present: Design Manager for iLife (iTunes, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto and GarageBand) and iPod. | 10/17/04 |
| Kathleen Watson Interface Designer email @filemaker.com failed 6/5/07 kathleen_watson@yahoo.com 408.987.3997 |
Claris Interface Design Group - July '96 to May 98. Lead interaction designer for FileMaker. (Left FileMaker to work for Lotus and Financial Engines '98-'99. Returned again to FileMaker end of '99.) | Interface Design Group Manager at FileMaker | 1/11/00 |
| Doris Wells-Papanek Tailored Learning Tools Design Consultant and Learning Coach doris@tailoredlearningtools.com www.tailoredlearningtools.com wk: 847.615.9957 cell: 847.772.9959 |
Managed the Developer Tools Human Interface Group. Project lead for Apple's developer technical documentation viewer. Visual design of System 7.0 as well as network, communication, and manufacturing applications. Designed visual appearance of Cyberdog, Apple's first internet browser. 1989-96 | Doris applies brain-based research to design tailored learning tools for education and business. She is the co-author of five brain-based instructional books. Doris works with design professionals, design students, and business to integrate users' mindsets and learning processes into sustainable product development. | 7/10/07 |
| Kate Withey Interaction and Visual Design Consultant kate@katewithey.com www.katewithey.com +1 415.317.7133 |
Apple 83-87: Lisa, Mac tech writer, member original HIG -- UI Guidelines, product development work | Independent graphic & interaction design consultant in the Bay Area; lots of mobile phone/hand-held/wireless work (Palm OS, Symbian, BREW, Windows Mobile, etc.); website design including web front-ends to databases for visualizing complex information. | 6/05/07 |
Irene Wong |
I’ve joined Yahoo! as the Senior Director of International User Experience Research. I’m currently based in Taipei. | 6/29/07 | |
| Yin Yin Wong email @urbanpixel.com failed 6/07 415-352-1212 |
Member of HIG ATG 1989-1993. Projects: dynamic document, interfaces for designers, future desktop intefaces, adaptive interfaces, gesture feedback. | Working as a user interaction design consultant in the Bay Area as a principal of Visible Research Office. | 12/17/03 |
| Dave Yost UE-driven architecture, information design Dave@Yost.com |
1993-1997 ATG including SK8 and UER. Championed ease of use through automating system administration and taking reliability seriously. | Lately doing Java Swing work, licensing a couple of UI improvements, and helping out at a new processor chip startup. | 6/05/07 |
| Gary Young Web & Interaction Design mcstrings@aol.com members.aol.com/mcstrings www.magnifi.com |
HIG Intern '92 - '94; ATG '95 - '97. Projects: You Do the Voodoo (experimental interactive experience), Catalyst (multimedia pre-production tool), Lens (community intranet) | I'm now at Democracy Data and Communications in Alexandria, VA as a web/UI designer. | 10/14/03 |
| Scott Yu Interaction and Visual Designer scott.yu@gmail.com www.scottyu.com (408) 393-9558 |
FileMaker visual designer for 1 1/2 years. Designed icons, splash screens, some UI, and content for FileMaker Pro 5, FileMaker Pro Developer, FileMaker Pro Server 5, and FileMaker Pro Unlimited. | I am now at WebEx.com as visual designer. | 08/30/05 |
The Apple Human Interface Community at Apple
It is useful for visitors to know that there are/were several centers of Apple HI folks, along with smaller groups and individuals scattered around the company.
History
Human Interface work at Apple dates back to before 1980, according to Apple lore. In 1980 Larry Tesler and colleagues arrived from Xerox PARC, and work commenced on the Lisa and its interface with Tesler, Bill Atkinson, and many others taking part. Sometime later the Macintosh project started, initially under the leadership of Jef Raskin. Towards the end of the 80's the Newton project started; it was initially targeted at a large screen pen computer.
By the late 80's, the major centers of HI Activity were as follows:
Current Status of HI at Apple:
According to the latest reports from inside Apple as of Winter/Spring 2002:
"Three HI groups support: Mac OS X (Aqua), Server Administration, and Applications ("iApps")."