Dear IxDA Members, We are very happy to announce the IxDA Board of Directors for 2010 with the addition of four new Directors. Please join us in welcoming our incoming Directors Nick Gould, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Kendra Shimmell, and Joe Sokohl. We also welcome back Janna DeVylder who will be continuing for a further term. Their term will officially begin January 1, 2010. Thank you to all of the candidates who put themselves forth.
We look forward to their contributions to the Board and the efforts they will catalyze for our entire community. Here are short biographies of the new Directors: *Janna DeVylder* Janna DeVylder is the Director of Interactive Communication at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) in Savannah, Georgia. She manages a multi-disciplinary team overseeing the university's websites and contributes to how SCAD utilizes digital channels to meet its brand and communication strategies. Prior to SCAD, Janna directed a team of interaction designers for Arc Worldwide, a Leo Burnett company. In addition, she has led large-scale strategy, information architecture and user experience projects for Orbitz, McDougal Littell and Giant Step. Janna started the IxDA local group in Chicago, then joined the IxDA Board, serving as the Director for IxDA Local Groups and now as President. Janna received her master's degree from the University of Chicago with an emphasis in psychology and anthropology, and holds a Bachelor's degree with honors in psychology from the University of Iowa. *Nick Gould* For the last 10 years, Nick has been CEO at Catalyst Group, a User Experience Design and Research consultancy based in New York City. Among other duties at Catalyst, Nick is the one who explains user experience concepts, processes, and deliverables to (sometimes skeptical) clients and helps them to see that caring about their end user is ultimately in their best interests. Prior to Catalyst, Nick held Internet Strategy and Product Development roles at Prodigy, Citigroup, Bertelsmann, and Scholastic. Before that, he practiced corporate and securities law and was an expert at using WordPerfect for MS-DOS. Nick was a staff columnist at the venerable Digital Web Magazine and has also written for TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider. *Matt Nish-Lapidus* As a designer and consultant at nForm User Experience, Matt helps clients navigate the often unfamiliar territory of interaction design to deliver solutions to complex problems. Matt has worked as a designer, artist, programmer, teacher, and consultant in a number of industries, and loves cutting across disciplines. He has been involved in design and art, both personally and professionally, for over ten years, and holds a degree from Ryerson University in experimental fine art. Along with a dedicated team, Matt is a local leader for the IxDA in Toronto. He is passionate about community building, education, and idea sharing, and is an unabashed music nerd, bike junkie, Mac evangelist, and of course, design geek. *Kendra Shimmell* Kendra is a User Experience Design Director at Lextant, a design research consultancy in Columbus, OH. Active in the local design community as a guest lecturer for the Department of Design at The Ohio State University (OSU), as a local leader for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), and as a mentor to local design students for the Columbus chapter of the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA). On the client level, Kendra aligns interdisciplinary teams around a common goal by facilitating communication across the disciplines of marketing, business, design, and engineering. She has established productive partnerships with companies such as Cardinal Health, CheckFree (now part of Fiserv), Cordis, Dell, Diebold, GE Healthcare, Hewlett-Packard, Hollister, Hunter, Microsoft, Moen, and Nationwide Insurance. Prior to joining Lextant in 2004, Kendra was a User Experience Designer for Nationwide Insurance, collaborating on client and financial management tools, as well as the consumer facing Nationwide.com that was ranked by Gomez in the top three insurance sites for ease of use and over-all performance for two consecutive years. In addition, Kendra worked on a range of consulting projects including rich Internet applications, retail experiences, and translation of dance choreography into multi-media, interactive performances. *Joe Sokohl* For more than 18 years, Joe Sokohl has concentrated on crafting excellent user experiences by using information architecture, interaction design, and user research. His academic background in literature and langauges helped frame his attention to the needs, desires, and visions of people as people. Currently the principal and UX architect for Regular Joe Consulting, LLC, in Richmond, VA,Joe's UX-oriented work has taken him to companies based in Boston, MA; Hamburg, Germany; Richmond, VA; Chicago, IL; and Durham, NC. His involvement in the wider UX community comes out in writings, presentations, and involvement. He's been published in the SIGCHI newsletter, UXMatters.com <http://uxmatters.com/>, and STC's Intercom. He has presented at the European Information Design Conference, the Society for Technical Communication's international conference, the Information Architecture Summit, and Agile, as well as regional events such as the DC IA IxD ReDux '09. He is a cofounder of RUX (RichmondUX.com<http://richmondux.com/>), a loose organization of anyone interested in things oriented to people interacting with (mostly digital) stuff. Oh, and he’s been a columnist, soldier, cook, radio DJ, blues road manager, and reporter once upon a time. His passion for motorcycling means he'll probably show up at a conference or a client call on his Moto Guzzi Norge. You can follow Joe at @mojoguzzi. ----------------------------------- The number of Directors on the Board as of 2010 will be our full complement of 9 individuals. IxDA Directors serve for staggered, 2-year terms with a two-term limit. The 2010 Board of Directors will comprise: Steve Baty Janna DeVylder Amyris Fernandez Nick Gould Jon Kolko Matt Nish-Lapidus Kendra Shimmell Kevin Silver Joe Sokohl ----------------------------------- We would also like to take this opportunity to recognise the outstanding contribution over the past two years of our outgoing Directors: Liz Bacon, Bill DeRouchey, Nasir Barday and Jeremy Yuille. We look forward to their continued involvement with the IxDA and our community, even as we farewell them from the Board. IxDA is a not-for-profit organization and is required to have a Board of Directors, but the Board is just one component of the success of IxDA. It is through the conference, initiatives, local groups and individual involvement that the IxDA network thrives. Again, please join us in extending a warm welcome to our newest Directors. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
