Press Mentions

It is an honor to be asked my thoughts on an issue, or to be featured in a publication for my work. These are a selection of articles in which I am mentioned or cited.

If you are interested in an interview, please contact me at [email protected]. Thank you.

 

 

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Mentions with Boxee

ReadWriteWeb
March 25, 2009
An Inside Look Into Boxee’s Systematic UX Overhaul Process

One product with one of the hottest new interfaces available is the new Boxee Beta software which allows for streamlined local and Web media viewing. Whitney Hess is the user experience (UX) designer behind the framework of the Boxee interface, and recently on her blog Pleasure and Pain she described the systematic process she went through to design it.

New York Times
March 25, 2009
There’s Something About Boxee

Whitney Hess, a consultant for Boxee, who has been surveying testers of the service, revealed some of the changes the company would be making in its next version. High on the list were tighter controls over notifications and filters for sexually explicit content.

Contentinople
March 25, 2009
Boxee Adds Pandora, Announces New Hulu Workaround

In addition to giving an update on Boxee’s most recent additions to its platform — which is currently still in alpha testing — Ronen and Boxee user experience designer Whitney Hess provided a preview of what users can expect during the application’s beta release.

Technologizer
March 26, 2009
Boxee Gears Up For Beta Debut

8. A better user interface. I am of the opinion that the user interface of Boxee is a little clunky. The company has brought on board an user interface manager, Whitney Hess, which is in charge of giving the application a facelift. Unfortunately, they did not have the beta finished enough before the NYC meetup, so we didn’t get to see any mockups.

New York Observer
March 26, 2009
Boxee Brings Back Hulu; Plans on Being Released on a Device by 2010

Mr. Ronen and Whitney Hess, Boxee’s user experience designer, also presented a preview of what Boxee’s beta version will look like, including a more customizable home screen, a global search for shows instead of sifting through content providers’ channels (right now you can only find 30 Rock if you go to NBC’s page, for example) and improved social networking capabilities.

The Plan8 Podcast
April 21, 2009
Boxee Interview

The Plan8 Podcast’s host Patrick Roanhouse got to inverview Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Boxee Head UI Designer Whitney Hess, and Boxee Communications & PR officer Andrew Kippen

 

Mentions with Roadcasting

MIT Technology Review
June 10, 2005
Roadcasting: A Potential Mesh Network Killer App

“It’s been great,” says Whitney Hess, one of the project’s leaders. “We’re all looking at ways to improve the [software], but we’re most excited to see what the open-source community does with our ideas.”[more]

Ars Technica
June 1, 2005
iCar coming to a showroom near you

Two of the incredibly cool creators of Roadcasting, Jordan Kanarek and Whitney Hess, had similar opinions when asked what they thought about the legality of Roadcasting in an iChat interview on Om Malik’s Broadband Blog.[more]

GigaOm
May 24, 2005
Roadcasting Rules

I caught up with Jordan Kanarek and Whitney Hess and did an iChat interview with the two-fifth of the five person team behind Roadcasting project. Here are excerpts from that little late night chat.[more]