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Mandel Listed in the Top 66 Usability Experts
Andrew Chornyy, CEO of Plerdy, a UX marketing company, posted a list on LinkedIn of the top 66 Usability Experts. I’m honored to be on the list. Check it out.
User Experience Design, User Research, and Expert Witness Consulting
Key Skills
- Over 30 years of experience and leadership in application, website and mobile app design, prototyping, user research and usability testing, applying psychology and consumer design principles.
- User research/usability testing of wireframes, prototypes, and products, providing quick and inexpensive feedback on product design, marketing, branding, interaction, navigation, content, and overall user experience
- Extensive experience creating corporate UX and UI guidelines and standards
- Expert witness experience in numerous cases, representing major clients such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Litigation topics include software patent, intellectual property, breach of contract, trademark litigation, and fraudulent or deceptive trade practices. Expert witness testimony in Federal Court.
- Eleven-year career in IBM’s leading-edge Common User Access (CUA) User Interface Architecture group. IBM team designed and prototyped IBM’s OS/2 object-oriented user interface. Consistently rated an outstanding performer at IBM
- Author of two well-known books – “The Elements of User Interface Design” (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) and “The GUI-OOUI War: The Designer’s Guide to Human- Computer Interfaces” (John Wiley & Sons, 1994). Author of numerous magazine and journal articles on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), software and Web interface design, usability, and user research
- Conference and symposium keynote speaker and workshop presenter on user experience design, user research, consumer psychology and usability
Testimonials
Dr. Mandel suggested solutions that greatly improved the site
Clients
From the Blog
Your redesign…set the industry standard
"I believe that your redesign of the Zoll software application set the industry standard (I am not alone in this opinion) and our big picture goal is to set a new standard." Robert Pabst, EMS Field Solutions Integration Manager Intermedix
He is…an outstanding talent when it comes to designing elegantly usable web pages
After knowing Dr. Mandel for over fifteen years, and working closely with him for the past three years now, words simply fail me in giving Dr. Mandel the recommendation he deserves, but I'll try anyway. He is not only an outstanding talent when it comes to designing...
…in the top 5% of web design folks I have used in the past 15 years
"Theo Mandel designed two high visibility commercial web sites for Blackboard - one is a user-oriented site for parents and students at universities and colleges, the other is the administrative site to manage the public site. During the past months, I have been...