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A bit more background on the friends and colleagues who have participated in the various conversations posted here.
Dirk Knemeyer is one of the Founding Principals at Involution Studios LLC, a digital product design firm located in Silicon Valley. Previously Dirk was the Chief Design Officer at Thread Inc., a regional visual communications company. He has published more than 100 articles and given presentations around the world. Currently, Dirk is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID), the Board of Directors of the AIGA Center for Brand Experience, and the Executive Council of UXnet.
James Leftwich, IDSA is founder and principal of Orbit Interaction, a pioneering and broad-based interaction design and intellectual property development consultancy located in Palo Alto, California. Trained as an industrial designer, he has over 22 years of broad consulting and professional experience in the area of Human Interface development and related intellectual property strategies. Since the early 1980s, his career has been on the leading edge of technological development and design innovation.
Luke Wroblewski is an interface designer, strategist, and author with over ten years experience in Web interface design. The author of "Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability", Luke also posts frequently at his blog, Function Form. Currently a Principal Designer for Yahoo! Search, Luke has also served in senior design positions at eBay and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Luke's work focuses on creating unity between function and form within products that allow people to communicate, collaborate, and create.