About The Authors

Carolyn Chandler

Carolyn Chandler is User Experience Director at Eight Bit Studios¹ and the co-founder and Chief Instructor of the School for Digital Craftsmanship². She’s the co-author of A Project Guide to UX Design³ and this year, Adventures in Experience Design⁴, an activity-oriented introduction to the experience design process. Crain’s listed her as one of Chicago’s Tech 50 due to her work with technology start-ups. Visit her professional site at www.dhalo.com⁵. Twitter: @chanan⁶.

Claire Carlson

Claire Carlson is a Seattle-based UX designer who has been a part of the Blink UX design team since 2011. She enjoys finding clever and elegant ways to communicate meaning through design and discovering good UX in her everyday life. Twitter: @TheNextUX⁷.

Daniel Sauble

Daniel Sauble is a Senior UX developer at Sonatype, where he leads design for Nexus, a software repository manager. In his spare time, he speaks at conferences, writes on Medium, and runs ridiculously long distances. Twitter: @djsauble⁸.

David Sherwin

David Sherwin is Director of User Experience for lynda.com⁹ at LinkedIn¹⁰, as well as a Fellow at frog¹¹. He is the author of Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills¹² and Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers¹³, both available from HOW Books.

Paul Boag

Paul Boag is the author of Digital Adaptation¹⁴ and a leader in digital strategy with over 20 years experience. Through consultancy¹⁵, speaking¹⁶, writing¹⁷, training¹⁸ and mentoring¹⁹ he passionately promotes digital best practice. Twitter: @boagworld²⁰.

Shlomo Goltz

Shlomo “Mo” Goltz is an Interaction Designer and User Researcher at Hearsay Social. There he crafts experiences that enables those in the financial sector to develop, maintain, and enrich relationships with customers via social media. Shlomo combines qualitative and quantitative research-based methodologies to inform his design process, with a focus on creating enterprise software that feels as delightful to use as consumer products. Twitter: @MoGoltz²¹.

About Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine²² is an online magazine dedicated to Web designers and developers worldwide. Its rigorous quality control and thorough editorial work has gathered a devoted community exceeding half a million subscribers, followers and fans. Each and every published article is carefully prepared, edited, reviewed and curated according to the high quality standards set in Smashing Magazine’s own publishing policy²³.

Smashing Magazine publishes articles on a daily basis with topics ranging from business, visual design, typography, front-end as well as back-end development, all the way to usability and user experience design. The magazine is — and always has been — a professional and independent online publication neither controlled nor influenced by any third parties, delivering content in the best interest of its readers. These guidelines are continually revised and updated to assure that the quality of the published content is never compromised. Since its emergence back in 2006 Smashing Magazine has proven to be a trustworthy online source.