Whitney Georgina Hess is a user experience designer, writer and synthesist. She is on the design team at Liquidnet, a global broker that has built the leading electronic marketplace for wholesale stock-trading.
As an interaction designer at digital marketing agencies Digitas and Tribal DDB, her client list included American Express, New York Times, Allstate, Claritin, Tropicana, and EarthLink. Most notably, she helped to conceive, design and test an innovative card search tool for American Express and is named as a co-inventor on its U.S. patent.
First trained as a computer scientist, Whitney received a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. She was one of five Masters students to develop Roadcasting, a system that allows drivers to create and share their music playlists with other cars on the road. The project has received press from Wired, MIT Tech Review, Slashdot, BoingBoing and more.
Whitney likes to take photos, knit, go to plays, movie-hop, eat sushi, sightsee and learn new things. She was born and raised in New York City, and currently lives in TriBeCa.
