Pleasure & Pain

[This post is part of a series on Mentors and Heroes]   Mario Bourque is Manager of Information Architecture and Content Management for a leading technology solutions provider to the passenger transport industry. He also helped to organize the Information Architecture Institute’s IDEA2009. Follow him on Twitter @mariobourque. Mario Bourque’s mentor is… Juan Guillen, Technology [Keep Reading…]

[This post is part of a series on Mentors and Heroes]   Erin Malone is a Principal at Tangible ux, a user experience consulting firm. Previously she led Yahoo!’s Platform User Experience Design team and helped build the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. She is also the co-author of the recently released Designing Social Interfaces. Follow [Keep Reading…]

[This post is part of a series on Mentors and Heroes]   Paul Isakson is an independent strategic planner. Previously he was the head of strategy at space150, a marketing and advertising agency. In 2008 he caused a stir when he began anonymously tweeting as Don Draper, the protagonist from the TV series Mad Men. [Keep Reading…]

[This post is part of a series on Mentors and Heroes]   Brandon Schauer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path, a user experience design and consulting firm. He is also the co-author of Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World. Follow him on Twitter @brandonschauer. Brandon Schauer’s heroes [Keep Reading…]

[This post is part of a series on Mentors and Heroes]   Josh Damon Williams is the director of product strategy at Hot Studio, a people-centered design studio, where previously he served as a senior user experience designer. He is also a part-time DJ. Follow him on Twitter @joshdamon. Josh Damon Williams’s mentor is… Ryan [Keep Reading…]