
Chief Design Architect (VP), Yahoo! Inc. | Speaker & Author, LukeW Ideation & Design
San Francisco Bay Area

Chief Design Architect (VP), Yahoo! Inc. | Speaker & Author, LukeW Ideation & Design
San Francisco Bay Area
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LukeW is an internationally recognized product design leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 700 million people worldwide. He is currently Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo! Inc. where he works on forward-looking integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, TV, and beyond.
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 Ideation & Design, a product strategy 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, strategy, mobile, TV, devices
Member, Board of Directors, Interaction Design Association, Silicon Valley Web builder, VizThink, User Interface Conference, Involution Master Academy, Webstock, MIX08, IASummit