
Senior Director, Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. || Speaker & Author at LukeW Interface Designs
San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Director, Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. || Speaker & Author at LukeW Interface Designs
San Francisco Bay Area
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LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 600 million people. He is currently Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. where he works on forward-looking integrated customer experiences.
Luke is the author of two popular Web design books: Web Form Design (2008) and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (2002). He also publishes Functioning Form, a leading online publication for interaction designers. Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at 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 (such as eBay Express and Kijiji). He also founded LukeW Interface Designs, a product ideation and design consultancy, 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.
product strategy, ideation, product design, interface design, user experience, visual design, information design, interaction design, user experience strategy, information architecture, usability