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Pioneer Lists

I've already arranged to interview several 'original pioneers.' Check this list to see if your suggested pioneer is already on my list.

Completed interviews
(alpha by first name-note that it takes me forever to get these transcribed, edited, and approved...so many listed here are not yet on the site)
  • Alan Cooper
  • Brenda Laurel
  • Deborah J. Mayhew
  • Dennis Wixon
  • Gerry McGovern
  • Ginny Redish
  • Jakob Nielsen
  • Joe Dumais
  • Jonathan Grudin
  • Judy Ramey
  • Keith Instone
  • Louis Rosenfeld
  • Mike Kuniavsky
  • Peter Merholz
  • Peter Morville
  • Randolph Bias
  • Whitney Quesenberry
  • Ben Shneiderman
  • Aaron Marcus
  • Larry Tesler
  • Marilyn Tremaine
  • Phil Terry
  • Caroline Jarrett
  • JoAnn Hackos
  • Seth Godin

Interviewees who have said yes (alpha by first name)
  • Arnie Lund
  • Donald Norman
  • Hugh Beyer
  • James Foley
  • Jared Spool
  • Jeff Veen
  • Karen Holtzblatt
  • Larry Constantine
  • Mark Hurst
  • Meg Hourihan
  • Michael Muller
  • Randolph Bias
  • Stuart Card
  • Susan Dray
  • Terry Winograd (I caught him at CHI!)
  • Bill Buxton

Tamara's "Wish List" (alpha by first name; I just need help contacting these folks)

Your suggestions
  • Greg Elin: Chief Data Architect for Sunlight Foundation / Sunlight Labs
  • Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi. Who can ever forget "We Got It"
  • Abigail Sellen
  • John S Rhodes
  • Almost anyone on the Userati list or on UX Zeitgeist.
  • Shelley Evenson
  • Andrew Dillon
  • Charles B. Kreitzberg
  • Karel Vredenburg
  • Mark Rolston: Chief Creative Officer at frog design inc.
  • Tony Temple
  • Nico Macdonald
  • Gilbert Cockton
  • Daniel Szuc and also co-author with Gerry Gaffney of the Usability Kit
  • Patricia Moore
  • Jess McMullin
  • Liz Danzico
  • Indi Young
  • Terry winograd
  • Richard Saul Wurman
  • Paula Sheeer
  • Tjeerd Hoek former UX director at Microsoft, now Executive Creative Director at frogdesign
  • Mark Hurst
  • Dan Brown
  • Jason Fried
  • Geoffrey Sauer, from the TC Library
  • Mitch Brisebois - UX blogger fromSensoryMetrics
  • Marc Rettig (One of the first pioneers of paper prototyping)
  • Larry Keeley (One of the fathers of Design Planning)
  • Patrick Whitney (Vision to create the first master's program in design; Institute of Design)
  • Mike and Kathy McCoy (Design Power Couple!)
  • Parish Hanna
  • Challis Hodge
  • Chuck Owen (Father of Structured Planning, one of the best design methodologies for systems!)
  • Richard Rubinstein
  • Frederic Lecourbe (a french pioneer)
  • Ingrid Ottersten (a scandinavian pioneer within commercial usability)
  • Feridoon Malekzadeh, Principal Designer with Frog Design in Seattle (uses PowerPoint for some wicked prototyping)
Kate Gomoll (Pioneer and expert in Field Studies) founder of Gomoll Research + Design


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I noticed that I am on the list. Thanks! Feel free to contact me at mark at experientia dot com. I can also get you in touch with Dirk Knemeyer, Nico Macdonald, and Nathan Shedroff.
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