The Jury

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Massimo Banzi

Co-Founder at Arduino
Milan, Italy

Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas. He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions like: Medialab Madrid, ARS Electronica Linz, Doors of Perception Amsterdam. Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect, both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, & boo.com.

Janna DeVylder

IxDA president & Principal at Meld Studios
Sydney, Australia

Janna DeVylder is the President of IxDA, an international organisation dedicated to advancing the discipline of Interaction Design, and is in her fourth year on the Board of Directors. In addition, as a co-founder and Principal at Meld Studios, a design studio in Sydney, Australia, Janna guides organisations in making strategic and innovative product and process decisions using research and design. She has led multidisciplinary design teams for SCAD and Arc Worldwide, and led large-scale interaction design and customer experience engagements for Orbitz, McDougal Littell and Giant Step.

Matt Jones

Principal at BERG
London, UK

Matt Jones has been designing digital products and services since 1995. Creative director for the launch of BBC News Online, he co-founded and designed Dopplr.com, a service for frequent travellers since sold to Nokia. Between 2003-2005, he worked at Nokia on areas as diverse as tangible/ physical interfaces and the human experience of play. He is now principal at BERG, a design and invention company in London. He originally studied Architecture, has written on interaction design, amongst other things, for 10 years at magicalnihilism.com and teaches on the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art.

Younghee Jung

Research Leader at Nokia
Bangalore, India

Younghee Jung is leading the Nokia Research Center in Bangalore, India. Her research centers on the social potential of mobile technology and behavioral change. Over the last decade, she has managed and created interdisciplinary teams of insight, design and innovation in Helsinki, Tokyo and London. She earned a B.S. in Industrial Design at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and M.A. in Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon University as Fulbright Scholar. Her current work focuses on basic enablers of mobile technology use for growth markets, suitable for the local culture and its potentials.

Jonas Löwgren

Professor at Malmö University
Malmö, Sweden

Jonas Löwgren is professor of interaction design and co-founder at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden. He specializes in cross-media products, interactive visualization and the design theory of digital materials. Jonas has taught interaction design in university courses and in companies since the early 1990’s and initiated the influential two-year master’s program in interaction design at Malmö University in 1998. He has published some 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and three books, including Thoughtful Interaction Design. His design portfolio comprises some 50 projects from explorative research and professional contexts.

Helen Walters

Writer, Editor, Researcher at Doblin/Monitor
New York City, USA

Helen Walters is a writer, editor and researcher at innovation consultancy Doblin, part of the Monitor Group. A New York City-based journalist, with experience editing and publishing content across multiple platforms, Helen was previously the editor of innovation and design at Bloomberg Businessweek. She is contributing editor at Creative Review magazine in the United Kingdom while she writes about creativity and design for numerous international publications, including Core77, Design Observer and Fast Company. She curates the website, thoughtyoushouldseethis.com and is the author of a number of design-related books.

Peer Reviewers

Many thanks to the peer reviewers.

Emily Sun
Sifteo

San Francisco, USA

Chloe Gottlieb
RG/A

New York, USA

Nick Gould
Catalyst Group

New York, USA

Doug LeMoine
Cooper

San Francisco, USA

Shaun Moon
Domo Technologies

Lindon, USA

Carl Alviani
Ziba Design

Portland, USA

Michal Pasternak
HUGE

New York, USA

Akseli Anttila
Nordkapp

Helsinki, Finland

Tonia Bartz
General Dynamics C4

Scottsdale, USA

Gilles Baudet
Attoma

Paris, France

Karyn Lu
Turner Broadcasting

New York, USA

Panu Korhonen
Nordkapp

Helsinki, Finland

Bill DeRouchey
Simple

Portland, USA

Peter Boersma
Adaptive Path

San Francisco, USA

Audrey Richard-Laur...
OgilvyOne

Paris, France

Andy Polaine
Hochschule Luzern

Luzern, Switzerland

Shannon Brooks-Ha...
PointClear

Atlanta, USA

Jayoung Sung
Intel-GE Care Innovat...

New York, USA

Adam Little
Method

San Francisco

Dave Malouf
SCAD

Savannah, USA

Kara Pecknold
Emily Carr University

Vancouver, Canada

Angel Anderson
CP+B

Los Angeles, USA

Kristian Simsarian
CCA

San Francisco, USA

Thomas Stovicek
Research In Motion

San Francisco, USA

Ben Fullerton
Method

San Francisco, USA

Matt Walsh
CP+B

Boulder, USA

Gretchen Anderson
Punchcut

San Francisco, USA

Elizabeth Goodman
UC Berkeley iSchool

San Francisco, USA

Tzu-Wei Powers
Dezudio

Pittsburgh, USA