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Leadership
The IxDA Board consists of nine directors that serve terms of two years. Each can renew their directorship one time, and the terms are staggered such that roughly half of the board changes from year to year. Check out the Board Blog to see what we are up to.
Janna DeVylder is a Principal at Meld Studios, a design studio based in Sydney, Australia. Janna has over twelve years of research and design experience in both agency and in-house settings, leading teams at SCAD and Arc Worldwide, as well as holding positions at Orbitz, McDougal Littell and Giant Step.
Janna has been active in IxDA for several years both locally and globally. She started the IxDA Chicago local group, joined the Board as the director of local groups globally and then moved into her current role as President.
Janna received her master’s degree from the University of Chicago with an emphasis in psychology and anthropology, and holds an honor’s Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Iowa.
President, IxDA
President
For more than 19 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, 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), 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.
Director
My goal is to nurture and empower designers; to educate businesses on the value of design; and to provide the tools to integrate design at the core of business innovation, process, and decision-making.
My experience bridges both physical and screen-based products, and service design. I've led diverse projects including the design of health care systems, retail environments, medical devices, durable goods, consumer electronics, financial services, and enterprise management applications. As a researcher, I've led large-scale ethnographic and qualitative programs in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
Prior to joining Cooper, I worked for Adaptive Path where I was a lead designer, advocate, and creative strategist. Before joining Adaptive Path, I was a Director at Lextant, an innovation consultancy.
Past clients come from a broad range of industries and include: California Healthcare Foundation, Cardinal Health, CheckFree (now Fiserv), Cordis Cardiology (Johnson & Johnson), Corporate Executive Board, Dell, Diebold, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, GE Energy, GE Healthcare, Globo, Hewlett-Packard, Hollister, Hunter, Microsoft, Moen, Nationwide Insurance & Financial, and Victoria’s Secret.
I'm super hands-on in the design community: I volunteer on the Board of Directors of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA); Conduct workshops and speak at industry events including: Interaction10 and 11, A Better World by Design, SxSW Interactive 2011; and coach young entrepreneurs in health care innovation through Cooper's partnership with Rock Health.
Director of Education and Training Services at Cooper
IxDA Board of Directors
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Treasurer
Designer, food lover, and musician living and working in Toronto ON, Canada.
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Sr Interaction Designer, Normative Design
Director
CEO at Catalyst Group, a User Experience Design and Research firm.
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Director
Steve Baty, UX Strategist, has over 13 years’ experience in the design and delivery of e-business products and services. Steve is a well-known practitioner in the area of experience strategy and architecture, with extensive skills in research, analysis and strategy.
Steve is a regular contributor to UXMatters.com; serves as an editor and contributor to interaction design magazine Johnny Holland, and is a founder of UX Book Club - a world-wide initiative bringing together user experience practitioners in over 80 locations to read, connect and discuss books on user experience design. He currently serves as the Vice-president of the IxDA.
Steve is a founder and principal of Sydney-based design studio Meld Studios and previously served as the Director of UX Strategy for Web agency Red Square.
Steve holds post-graduate degrees in electronic commerce (M.Ec) and business administration (MBA) from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management; and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (Applied Physical Mathematics & Applied Statistics) from UTS.
He likes to fish, but doesn't get to very often.
Vice-President
Mary Jane (MJ) Broadbent is an independent design consultant whose work over the past two decades spans a diverse range of visual and interactive design applications. Her practical expertise and leadership in the UX realm has benefited organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bookspan (now DirectGroup Bertelsmann), College Board, Empire BlueCrossBlueShield, H&R Block, The McGraw-Hill Companies (including Standard & Poor's), Pfizer, Sony Electronics, Thomas Publishing, and the United Nations. MJ also teaches developmental workshops on drawing skills and is a curator for VizThink, the global community of visual thinking. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Design from University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP).
MJ has been active with IxDA since 2006, moving quickly from attendee to volunteer to steering the New York City local group. In recent years she helped create and launch the IxDA Mentoring Program and co-chaired the Interaction11 conference. She joined the Board of Directors in January 2011 and currently holds the office of Treasurer.
Treasurer
Kim Lenox is a founding member of IxDA-SF where she was deeply involved in co-hosting the monthly speaker series and events in 2007-2008.
Kim has spent nearly two decades focused on user experience design, management and delivery of multi-platform products and services with worldwide reach and exposure. She has successfully shipped products ranging from mobile application and OS software, PC desktop software, children's handheld devices, interactive TV, DVD interfaces, interactive kiosks, websites & CD-ROMs. Her previous clients and employers include Adaptive Path, AT&T, Excite@Home, LeapFrog, Nokia, Organic, Samsung Design America, UPC/Chello and a variety of bubble start-ups of dot-com lore.
Currently Kim is a member of the webOS Human Interface Leadership Team at Palm which was acquired in mid-2010 by Hewlett Packard.
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