Education:

BA, Pennsylvania State University; MA, Carnegie Mellon University

Professional experience includes:

Board member, Rosenfeld Media; board member, Design Ignites Change; board member, desigNYC; director of experience strategy, AIGA; user experience director, daylife.com; managing editor, Voice: AIGA Journal of Design; editor-in-chief, Boxes and Arrows; information architecture manager, Razorfish, barnesandnoble.com; columnist, Interactions

Publications include:

Adobe Think Tank; Boxes and Arrows; editor-in-chief, A Brief Message; Field-Tested Books; Eye; A List Apart; Business Week; Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design; Core77; Voice: AIGA Journal of Design; UX Matters

Books contributed to include:

Becoming a Digital Designer: A Guide to Careers in Web, Video, Broadcast, Game and Animation Design; Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning; I Heart Design: Remarkable Graphic Design Selected by Designers, Illustrators, and Critics; Web Anatomy: Interaction Frameworks that Work

Events directed:

Co-chair, AIGA/NY: Design Remixed; Smart/Models: Business Principles for Design Principals; In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed–Fresh Dialogue 24