WIF 2008 - webdesign international festival - France

Jury

Nancy Frishberg

User Experience Strategist - Freelance - USA

Nancy Frishberg focuses on the user’s experience of products and services. She employs appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods to aid decision-making in product design. Frishberg brings the ability to listen deeply and to communicate across multi-disciplinary teams. Her professional career spans industry (IBM, Apple, Sun Microsystems), academia, and non-profit organizations.

She holds a Ph.D. from University of California at San Diego in linguistics. Her book on sign language interpreting, in print continuously for over 20 years, serves as the basis for the national written examinations supervised by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. She’s been active in ACM’s SIGCHI conferences as a participant, author and presenter, or program organizer since 1989. Most recently she has added certification as an Innovation Games® facilitator to her repertoire, helping organizations create breakthrough products through collaborative play.