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UX Magazine was created to deliver a central place to discuss the critical disciplines that all enhance user experience. Extraordinary user experiences should be the goal of every interaction you deliver to your users at any level. All too often, businesses (large and small) get it horribly wrong. It’s painful to watch and even worse when it happens to you.

Every month we combine original articles with the best from blogs and online media to deliver an online magazine that covers the best new thinking on design, strategy, technology, and common sense. We believe that the more businesses can bring ideas from these four critical disciplines inside their business the better the user experiences they deliver will be.

Contributing

Be part of our growing community of writers and industry experts. If you have something to say about user experience then submit an article. Writers for UX Magazine gain a new platform to share ideas and reach an ever-expanding audience. Submit your articles and ideas to contribute@uxmag.com.

Other Inquiries

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please email us at info@uxmag.com. For press releases and other PR inquiries, please email us at press@uxmag.com.

Staff

Jonathan Anderson  |  Managing Editor

Jonathan (@first_day) is a tech-focused jack of all trades and author of Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software, published by O'Reilly Media in 2010. 

From 2005 to 2009, Jonathan helped found EffectiveUI, a leading UX strategy, design, and development agency focused on rich Internet, desktop, and mobile systems. In this role, he had the opportunity to work in the leading edge of software design and development, which is converging around an increasing attention to high-quality UX, around Web-enabled or Web-based software, and around technologies that can create unified experiences across multiple platforms, devices, and products.

Alex Schleifer  |  Managing Editor & Co-founder

Alex co-founded Sideshow (formerly Netymology) a global interactive agency 10 years ago and still heads its creative department today. Alex has worked on hundreds of projects for companies of all sizes and brings with him years of managing many aspects of user experience both on and offline. He maintains a blog on which he occasionally rants about things such as mojitos and videogames.

Constantinos M. Demetriadis  |  Managing Editor & Co-founder

Serial entrepreneur, sporadic blogger and habitual twitterer. Co-founder of UX Magazine, Listiki, Joblet and the Creative Survey. Constantinos Demetriadis works as a Creative Director for Tribal DDB Athens since April 2010.

Tiffany Arries  |  Site & Content Manager

Tiffany is responsible for coordinating UX Magazine's event and editorial activities. She works with contributors to help shepherd new content through UX Magazine's editorial process.

Contributing & Senior Editors

Howard Mann  |  Co-founder, Senior Editor

Howard is the founder of The Business Brickyard an elite program for entrepreneurs and business leaders that focuses on the perfect execution of the basics to build business that thrive in good times and bad. He is also a founder at Sideshow Digital and the author of the acclaimed book Your Business Brickyard.

Mike Downey  |  Senior Editor

Mike Downey (@mdowney) is Director of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft where he focuses on platform adoption of Microsoft Silverlight and related technologies. With a long history in developing software for web and mobile application development and rich media delivery, Mike has amassed a great deal of experience with gathering and prioritizing feature requirements, tailoring product messaging for target audiences, building and delivering exceptional product presentations that engage audiences and drive sales, creating innovative new ways to maximize revenue – particularly with mature product lines, and working with engineering teams to better understand their customers. Mike was formerly the Principal Evangelist for the Platform Business Development team at Adobe Systems focusing on promoting Adobe’s platform technologies including Flash, Flex, and AIR.

Juan Sanchez  |  Senior Editor

Juan Sanchez is an experience architect at Denver-based EffectiveUI, a leading provider of rich Internet applications. Juan is also the founder and operator ofScaleNine, an site that provides inspiration and resources to designers and developers working with Adobe technologies, including a variety of themes and skins to turn vanilla Flex and AIR applications into custom visual experiences. He's also the author of Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0, published by Addison-Wesley in 2009. With a background primarily in print design, branding, and advertising, Juan’s skills have evolved toward web technologies including HTML, CSS, Adobe Flash and Flex. Juan earned his BA in Communication Design from California State University, Chico. Equipped with a creative eye and logical mind, Juan walks the line between designer and developer, with particular interests in user experience, usability, designer/developer collaboration and open-source projects. 

Alex Rainert  |  Contributing Editor

Alex (@arainert) has been working in the interactive industry for 12 years. He's spent that time working on a variety of platforms on the interactive agency side and as the co-founder of a startup, dodgeball.com (acquired by Google in 2005). Since then, he's managed the UX and Creative teams at Schematic NY and is currently working with a local startup on an early 2010 launch. Over the years, he's done work for clients including Verizon Wireless, Nokia, HBO, IBM, CBS, Core Performance, Freshdirect and Thomson Reuters. He blogs about innovation in design at everydayux.com, and he consults on mobile, social and emerging technologies at Tinker Studio.