Aaron Marcus is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world’s first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics. In the 1970s he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page layout application for the Picturephone ™ at AT&T Bell Labs, became the first designer to program virtual reality art-spaces while a faculty member at Princeton University, and directed an international team of visual communicators as a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu.
In the early 1980s he was a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, founded AM+A, and began research as a Co-Principal Investigator of a project funded by the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was the keynote speaker for ACM/SIGGRAPH 1980, the organizer and chair of the opening plenary panel for ACM/SIGCHI 1999, the CHI South Africa keynote speaker in 2000 and in 2005, and the closing keynote plenary speaker for UPA 2005, the Usability Professional’s Association’s annual conference.
AM+A celebrates more than 30 years as a leading firm in user-interface development (planning, research, design, implementation, evaluation, documentation, and training) for Web, mobile, vehicle, and desktop applications in consumer and professional products/services. Aaron Marcus lectures around the world on critical issues, best practices, and future trends in user-interface design. AM+A serves the mobile, vehicle, finance, medical, travel, and music industries among others. AM+A builds solutions that let people experience the full usability, usefulness, and appeal of products/services through intelligent design. Visit Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., at its Website: www.AMandA.com.
The podcast is full of interesting tidbits, advice and a trip through the history of User Design.
Where you can find Aaron and information discussed in podcast:
DUXU15 Conference: Design, User Experience, and Usability
- http://www.hcii2015.org
- Los Angeles, CA, USA, Auguts 2014
- Mother site URL for the combined conferences
Machine Projects: www.amanda.com
Website: www.AMandA.com.
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