Russ Unger

Current

President at The Information Architecture Institute
Director of Experience Planning at Draftfcb
Author at Peachpit Press

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Past

Director of Events & Marketing at The Information Architecture Institute
Senior Information Architect at Agency.com
Senior Information Architect at Element 79 Partners

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Education

TUI University
Northern Illinois University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Russ Unger’s Summary

Russ Unger is the Director of Experience Planning for Draftfcb, a advertising/marketing agency in the Midwest and currently serves on the board of directors of the Information Architecture Institute as president. Russ has been working on websites since 1993—when there was only Notepad to code with and Mosaic was the only browser around. That was when he found his interest in User Experience Design and Information Architecture began to flourish.

Since then, he has worked with a number of major brands, including Sharpie, Kraft, Kmart, Gatorade, Propel, Quaker and Celebrity Cruise Lines, as well as on large scale Intranet and Extranet applications for such companies as Volkswagen Credit, Audi Financial Services, Information Resources, Inc. and Marsh. He has been involved in the Information Architecture for large scale public-facing sites for such companies as Metromix, Oprah.com, United Airlines and Hewlett-Packard. He has also worked off-line, creating unique biometric (fingerprint reader) applications and has worked as the Design Lead for Motorola’s Connectivity domain where he was responsible for creating user interfaces for mobile applications in Motorola's Consumer Experience Design group.

In addition, Russ is co-author of the book “A Project Guide to UX Design” for Peachpit Press (Voices That Matter) and is co-authoring a book on research methods due out in 2010.

Russ Unger’s Specialties:

Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Design Strategy, Usability, User Interface, Social Networking, Social Strategy, Branding and Identity, Web and Interactive Design and Development, Creative Project Management and all-around (Software) Development Life Cycle.