Chicago Camps Podcast

This podcast features Nicole Maynard, Head of User Experience at Hyatt, and her Lightning Talk, “Cultivating Happiness” from the design leadership conference Prototypes, Process & Play on August 10th, 2017. Prototypes, Process & Play presentation podcasts are sponsored by Balsamiq - with Balsamiq Mockups, anyone can design great software. Nicole Maynard- Lightning Talk Head of User Experience at Hyatt Nicole Maynard is the Head of User Experience at Hyatt leading a team of researchers, interaction and visual designers, creating solutions that elevate Hyatt’s digital footprint and enhance the guest experience. She has taken the helm as president of the Chicago chapter of UXPA (User Experience Professionals Association). Nicole is a versatile UX professional; she has a foundation in graphic, information and interaction design and has been performing user research well before realizing it was a profession. She has always found the inner workings of our minds to be a compelling subject of study. Her work

This podcast features Julia Keren-Detar, UX Designer at Untame, and her Lightning Talk, “Usability Testing & Development on a Shoestring Budget” from the design leadership conference Prototypes, Process & Play on August 10th, 2017. Prototypes, Process & Play presentation podcasts are sponsored by Balsamiq - with Balsamiq Mockups, anyone can design great software. Julia Keren-Detar - Lightning Talk UX Designer at Untame Julia Keren-Detar is a game designer and developer based out of Chicago, IL. Currently she is the Creative Director for Untame, a studio shared by her and her husband. She is working on Mushroom 11 with Itay Keren, Simon and Kara Kono, contributing to the game design, UX and marketing. She’s worked on several casual and indie titles including Untame’s award-winning mobile game “Rope Rescue” and Arkadium’s hit Facebook game “Mahjongg Dimensions Blast”. At Arkadium, she was a senior developer at the R&D department, prototyping and designing dozens of games. Julia is also an avid q

This podcast features Carmen Medina, CEO of Normative, and her presentation, “Lead Above Mediocre Thinking” from the design leadership conference Prototypes, Process & Play on August 10th, 2017. Prototypes, Process & Play presentation podcasts are sponsored by Balsamiq - with Balsamiq Mockups, anyone can design great software. Carmen Medina - Presentation Heretic, Rebels at Work Carmen, a retired Senior Federal Executive with 32 years’ experience in the Intelligence Community, is a recognized national and international expert on intelligence analysis, strategic thinking, diversity of thought, and innovation and intrapreneurs in the public sector. She is the co-author of the new book: Rebels At Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within and of the landmark Deloitte University Press paper on Diversity’s New Fronter: Diversity of Thought and the Future of the Workplace. Her story as a heretic and change agent at CIA is featured in Wharton School professor Adam Grant’s new bestseller Originals: How N

This podcast features Matthew Milan, CEO of Normative, and his presentation, “Making Moonshots” from the design leadership conference Prototypes, Process & Play on August 10th, 2017. Prototypes, Process & Play presentation podcasts are sponsored by Balsamiq - with Balsamiq Mockups, anyone can design great software. Matthew Milan - Presentation CEO of Normative Matthew is a complex systems specialist with a focus on software innovation. He has degrees in Ski Area Management, Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Planning, and has spent most of his career helping organizations make concrete decisions about the future through the integration of strategic design and technology prototyping. Matthew has spent the last decade at Normative leading teams on the fuzzy front end of emerging technologies. Along the way he’s discovered that when you work at the intersection of people and technology, change is the only constant. Dealing with ambiguity is what gets him up in the morning. Matthew married w

Prototypes, Process & Play presentation podcasts are sponsored by Balsamiq - with Balsamiq Mockups, anyone can design great software. This podcast features Scott Berkun, author and speaker, and his keynote, “The Dance of the Possible” from the design leadership conference Prototypes, Process & Play on August 10th, 2017. Scott Berkun - Keynote Author & Speaker Scott Berkun is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, culture, business and many other subjects. He’s the author of seven books, including The Myths of Innovation, Confessions of a Public Speaker, and The Year Without Pants. His work has appeared, or been mentioned, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Wired magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, National Public Radio, The Huffington Post and other media. He studied philosophy, computer science and design at CMU, was a manager at Microsoft (’94-’03) and WordPress.com (’10-’12), and currently works f

Chicago Camps interviews Christian Manzella, a Speaker Mentor for Speaker Camp Seattle on February 28th. Christian is the VP of UX at Moz, an SEO software company in Seattle, and also the founder of GIANT, which holds multiple events each year. ========== About Christian Manzella Christian Manzella has been working in the internet for nearly 20 years, across multiple industries. Christian jokes that he’s had every role, both as a contributor and as a manager, that you can have in an internet-based business. After spending 10 years working on CRM and CMS systems in the automotive, marine and related industry space, he moved into eCommerce with companies like Lowe’s and BlueNile.com. Christian is currently, the VP of UX at Moz, an SEO software company in Seattle. He is also the founder of GIANT, a group that holds multiple small events and a large GIANT Conference in Charleston, SC each year, and has a blog at GiantUX.com Christian makes most of his contributions by trying to help others succeed and have a

Chicago Camps interviews Nishant Kothary, Cofounder at Minky, author, and speaker. Nishant is also a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Seattle on February 28th, 2015. His dog, Yoshi, is an internet celebrity. Well, sort of. ========== About Nishant Kothary After cutting his teeth as a Program Manager at Amazon.com on projects like Instant Video & the original Kindle, Nishant aka @rainypixels honed his multidisciplinary skills at Microsoft as a Web Strategist. His writings, and design and development work have been featured in Smashing Magazine, UXMag, MIX Online, The Techblock, Drawar, and many other sites and publications. He also enjoys speaking at conferences, and has delivered highly rated talks to audiences at SIGGRAPH, DUX, Smashing Conf, UX Munich, edUi, Dare, From the Front, and many others since the early 2000s. He and his wife quit their jobs in 2013 to start Minky, a design and technology company based in Seattle, WA. They spend every waking moment of their lives right now building a product toget

Chicago Camps interviews Marianne Sweeny, Principal at Daedalus Information Systems. Marianne is also a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Seattle on February 28th, 2015. ========== About Marianne Sweeny Marianne Sweeny considers herself most fortunate to be able to combine her passions for search and the user experience. Through Daedalus Information Systems, Marianne works with companies of all sizes to help them make search technology work more effectively in achieving business goals and objectives with strategy first, then tactics. Prior to devoting herself full-time to Daedalus, Marianne was SR Search Strategist and Principal UX Consultant at Portent Inc. She built the search marketing and optimization practice for Ascentium, both digital marketing agencies headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. She is a frequent presenter at conferences on user experience and search-related topics. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events

Chicago Camps interviews Margot Bloomstein, Principal at Appropriate, Inc. and author of Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Engagement. Margot is also a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Boston on October 11th, 2014. ========== About Margot Bloomstein Margot is the author of Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Engagement (Morgan Kaufmann, 2012) and principal of Appropriate, Inc., an independent brand and content strategy consultancy based in Boston. She crafts brand-appropriate user experiences to help retailers, universities, and other organizations engage their target audiences and project key messages with consistency and clarity through both traditional and social media. Advertising and interactive agencies as well as large corporations turn to Margot to help grow their content strategy practices. Over the past decade, she's had a hand in shaping corporate social responsibility efforts at Timberland, content for alumni relatio

Chicago Camps interviews Dana Chisnell, Principal Consultant at UsabilityWorks, Visiting Scientist at MIT, and Co-Founder at Center for Civic Design. As if that's all not enough, Dana is a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Boston on October 11th, 2014. ========== About Dana Chisnell Dana strives to counter bad data every day. She's a research nerd (her words) who just loves methodology, collaborating, and data - especially data she can help teams use to make design decisions. In fact, Dana loves applied research so much that just for fun, she sometimes organizes clients, friends, and other nerds to do flash research on the weekends! Dana believes in ending the opinion wars. And she has helped dozens of teams at organizations large and small find peaceful cooperation as they gather and analyze user research data to inform designs from software, to websites, to apps, to voting systems. She’s what you might call a "seasoned professional" who, with Jeff Rubin, wrote Handbook of Usability Testing, Second Ed

Chicago Camps interviews Boon Sheridan, Product Designer at NASDAQ OMX. Boon is a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Boston on October 11th, 2014. ========== About Boon Sheridan Over the last twenty years Boon has had job titles like site producer, content specialist, information architect, interaction designer, user researcher, stage manager and voice-over actor. Between bouts of title whiplash he’s helped build some very big things, and lots of very small things – each with their own powerful lessons. He’s a Product Designer at NASDAQ OMX, a Rosenfeld Media expert, a lover of new cocktails and old records. He’d love to swap stories over a beverage. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "In the Basteal" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

Chicago Camps interviews Kyle Soucy, Founding Principal at Usable Interface. Kyle is a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Boston on October 11th, 2014. ========== About Kyle Soucy Kyle Soucy (@kylesoucy) is the Founding Principal of Usable Interface (www.usableinterface.com), an independent UX consulting company specializing in user research and usability testing. Her industry diverse client list includes Comcast, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit Inc., McGraw-Hill, and Pfizer to name a few. She has spent the last 14 years helping create intuitive interfaces for a variety of different products, ranging from websites to touch screen devices. Kyle founded the New Hampshire Chapter of the User Experience Professionals’ Association (NH UXPA) and served as its inaugural President. She has also served as Chair for the Philadelphia Chapter of ACM’s SIG on Computer-Human Interaction (PhillyCHI). Kyle is very passionate about the continued growth of the usability and user experience design community. About Chicago Camps Chicago Cam

Chicago Camps interviews Jenn Downs, UX Researcher at ShootProof. Jenn is a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Boston on October 11th, 2014. ========== About Jenn Downs Jenn Downs is a UX Researcher and adores the web and what it can do for the world. She got her start in tech as MailChimp's first hire and has recently joined up with the Atlanta photography/tech company ShootProof. Jenn is also a mentor for Code for America and invented the slightly awkward, yet truly helpful, Laptop Hugging Method for remote mobile testing. Outside of being a web nerd, Jenn owns and runs a carpentry business with her husband, dotes on her dog Dickie, is a songwriter, and plays bass and guitar in a few bands around Atlanta. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "In the Basteal" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 Simplecast - P

Chicago Camps interviews Jason Kunesh, CEO of Public Good Software. Jason is presenting a keynote at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014. ========== About Jason Kunesh Jason Kunesh is the CEO of Public Good Software, a social enterprise software startup in Chicago. Previously, he was Director of User Experience & Product at Obama for America, a founder of Fuzzy Math, on the founding team of ThePoint (which grew up to be Groupon), an early designer at Orbitz, an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a bouncer at the Green Mill. He finds simple solutions for gnarly problems wherever people meet technology. Find him on the internet @jdkunesh or jdkunesh.com, biking around Chicago, or eating something terrible yet tasty. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christia

Chicago Camps interviews Brittanie Crain, Manager of Interaction Design at Manifest Digital in Chicago. Brittanie is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how she uses Axure in all phases of the prototyping process with a variety of different partners. ========== About Brittanie Crain Brittanie is an Axure-pro and part of the User Experience team at Manifest Digital. She has predominantly worked with small inter-disciplinary teams on rapid projects for companies such as AT&T, Bloomberg, and the San Francisco Giants. She is obsessed with solving process road bumps due to her experience navigating the chaos of fast-paced and small staffed projects. Follow Brittanie on Twitter at @brittanielynn About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 *Troy

Chicago Camps interviews Adam Tramposh, Senior Manager of UX at Manifest Digital in Chicago. Adam is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about his process for creating an application for Google Glass. ========== About Adam Tramposh Adam Tramposh is an Interaction Designer at Manifest Digital specializing in mobile product innovation, design and consulting. He is an advocate for visual communication, a self-described “Fandroid” and Google product enthusiast. Follow Adam on Twitter as @formal_gs About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 *Troy Luccketta on drums Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

Chicago Camps interviews Nicole Maynard, Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital Americas in Chicago. Nicole is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about the remaining flexible while testing prototypes. ========== About Nicole Maynard Nicole Maynard is a Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital creating solutions that improve the way commercial lending teams work and use data to manage their growth. She got her start in graphic, information and interaction design and had been performing user research well before realizing it was an actual thing. Her work has been published nationally and has won various design awards. Nicole has recently taken the helm as the president of the Chicago chapter of UXPA (User Experience Professionals Association) and is a purveyor of health and nutrition. She has a possibly unhealthy love of birds, but don't ever tell her that. Follow Nicole on Twitter as @punkynixter About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan mul

Chicago Camps interviews Jonathan Ozeran, VP of Product at Zest Health in Chicago. Jonathan is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how he's managed prototyping hardware and software for dog collars with a globally dispersed team. ========== Jonathan Ozeran Jonathan is a product designer, software engineer, team builder and startup evangelist who enjoys contributing to the growth of the Chicago and Detroit startup communities. In his current role, Jonathan serves as VP, Product at Zest Health, a Chicago-based start-up that is reinventing the healthcare experience for its members via mHealth innovation. Backed by Lightbank and 7wire Ventures, Zest’s dual focus on healthcare innovation and consumerism is deeply engrained in the company’s DNA. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Lecturer at Northwestern University where he teaches mobile application design and prototyping and also serves as Technical Director and Co-Founder at WÜF (formerly Ridogulous Labs). About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LL

Chicago Camps interviews Kamaria Campbell, Information Architect & User Experience Design consultant at IBM in Chicago. Kamaria is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how to manage all the many requests that can be made of a prototype and the prototyper. ========== About Kamaria Campbell Kamaria is a Chicago-based User Experience Professional, currently working at IBM as an Information Architect. Kamaria began her career in UX as a Usability Analyst for 3 years and made the shift to Information Architecture and Design in 2013. For the past year, she has worked on projects requiring prototyping websites, mobile phone, and tablet applications using tools like Balsamiq and Axure. While the design varies each time, Kamaria has found that the steps leading up to prototyping are often similar. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "Gotta Go" music written

Chicago Camps interviews Ross Belmont, Chief Experience Officer of Chicago-based Appiphony. Ross is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about the pitfalls his team has run into as they made the move to interactive prototypes. ========== About Ross Belmont Ross Belmont gave up a life of code to build the design practice at Appiphony, a Chicago-based consultancy focused on Salesforce.com apps. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 *Troy Luccketta on drums Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.