About the Authors

Tania Schlatter is a visual designer equally interested in content, form, and people. She designs interfaces and communication systems that help people by combining user-centered and visual design techniques and applying them to complex applications.

Tania has been practicing design for more than 20 years. Her formal design study includes an M.Des. in human-centered communication design from the Institute of Design in Chicago; a summer with Paul Rand and Armin Hofmann in Brissago, Switzerland; and a BFA in graphic design from Boston University. She served as the first experience design chair for the AIGA at the local level. Tania currently teaches interactive information design to graduate students at Northeastern University in Boston. Tania can be reached on Twitter at @taniaschlatter.

Deborah A. Levinson is a user interface designer with over 16 years of expertise helping designers, engineers, and communications professionals find common ground and build successful digital applications. A former webmaster for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Debby is also a coauthor of The MIT Guide to Teaching Website Design, published by MIT Press in April 2001. She and Tania co-own Nimble Partners, a Boston-area user experience and user interface design firm. Debby can be reached on Twitter at @nimblepartners.

The year this book was written, Tania and Debby worked with the founder of Catapult.org to define the site’s user experience and administrative interface; with researchers at MIT’s HyperStudio on interfaces for social annotation; with CafePress.com; and with a software firm on a suite of applications utilizing artificial intelligence and labor data.