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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
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From the Blog
Mandel’s IUE 2013 Presentations
Theo Mandel organized and presented at the ninth annual Internet User Experience conference (IUE 2013), April 2-3, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. Theo's presentations were featured on SlideShare immediately after posting and have over 3,000 views to date. View Mandel's...
UX Conference in Phoenix this week!
Theo Mandel is one of the organizers and presenters at the ninth annual Internet User Experience conference - IUE 2013. The April 2-3 conference in Tempe, Arizona, highlights top industry speakers, practitioners, and authors to provide attendees with a complete...
Arizona World Usability Day – Video
Mandel organized the Arizona World Usability Day event on November 8, 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The wildly successful event was captured on film and is now available on the World Usability Day YouTube Channel. Check out the Arizona WUD event on the World Usability...
John Karlin, Father of Touch-Tone Dialing, Dies
An obituary in the New York Times highlight's John Karlin's historic influence on digital dialing. Karlin died on January 28 at the age of 94. Ed Israelski, a well-know human factors professional, was fortunate to work under Karlin at Bell Labs. Karlin designed the...
Who owns your UX philosophy?
"I’ve been in three board meetings in the last month where it was painfully apparent that there wasn’t a person in the company who owned the UX philosophy of the product. I’m explicitly saying “UX” (user experience) rather than “UI” (user interface) as each company...