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Keynote Speakers
Anchoring the 2021 Midwest UX conference this year, we are proud to bring you keynote speakers with experience, insight, brilliance, and fresh thinking in the field of design. Read on to learn a bit more about our keynote speakers.
Richard Buchanan
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Richard Buchanan is Professor of Design, Management, and Information Systems at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the Weatherhead faculty in 2008, he served as Head of the School of Design from 1992 until 2002 and from 2002 until 2008 as Director of Doctoral Studies.
Buchanan is a widely published author and speaker. He is also Co-Editor of Design Issues, the international journal of design history, theory, and criticism published by the M.I.T. Press. He served for two terms as President of the Design Research Society, the learned society of the design research community. While at Carnegie Mellon, he inaugurated Interaction Design programs at the Masters and doctoral level. He is well known for extending the application of design into new areas of theory and practice, writing and teaching as well as practicing with the concepts and methods of Interaction Design.
He has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an honorary doctorate from the University of Montreal.
Nathan Martin
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“Willy Wonka with a toolkit from Mythbusters” by Forbes Magazine, Nathan Martin is the CEO of Deeplocal, an internationally acclaimed innovation studio that builds compelling experiences that link the real and online worlds and provoke conversation. Deeplocal spun out of the world’s leading robotics school, Carnegie Mellon, and has been instrumental in shaping innovation in the ad industry with the development of projects like the tweet-fed, chalk-spraying Nike Chalkbot robot for the Tour de France and the Prius bicycle with mind-controlled shifting. In less than three years, the organization has received awards like AdAge Small Agency of the Year Northeast, Cannes Lions Grand Prix, and One Club Top Ten Campaign of the Decade and has built a client list that includes Nike, Toyota, Volkswagen, TBS, GAP, and others.
Prior to founding Deeplocal in 2006, Nathan was a founding member of an art group and a touring punk/metal band and spoke, toured, and exhibited internationally. Nathan has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work in art, music, and technology and has been featured in Wired, Fast Company, AdWeek, and NOTCOT, and at events like AdAge Creativity + Technology, 2600’s H.O.P.E. Conference, and Yahoo! Provoke.
Peter Morville
Peter Morville is a writer, speaker, and consultant. He is best known for helping to create the discipline of information architecture. His bestselling books include Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Ambient Findability, and Search Patterns. He advises such clients as AT&T, HP, IBM, the Library of Congress, Macy’s, Microsoft, the National Cancer Institute, Vodafone, and the Weather Channel. His work on information architecture and user experience strategy has been covered by Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Knowsy. He blogs at findability.org.
