Luke Wroblewski

Basics Current Residence: Los Gatos, CA Title: Senior Principal, Product Ideation & Design Organization: Yahoo! Inc. Organization 2: LukeW Interface Designs eMail: http://www.lukew.com/about/luke/

Background

LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used every day by more than 750 million people. He is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. and Founder of LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy. Luke applies design methodologies, skills, and principles to create and refine the strategy and user experience of new or existing products.

Luke also publishes Functioning Form, the leading online publication for interaction designers. He authored a book on Web interface design principles titled Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability. Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at various conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.’s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products and internal tools and processes. Luke also taught interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

Work Samples

Web Application Designs

Icon Systems  

Sessions

VizThink '08 Breakout Session - Influencing Strategy by Design

Links

Book: Site Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability on Amazon.com
Upcoming Book: Web Form Design Best Practices
Website: http://www.lukew.com/ 
Business Website: http://www.yahoo.com
Blog: http://www.lukew.com/ff/