Lynn Cherny

Past

• User Interaction Design Manager at Autodesk
• Principal Usability Specialist at The MathWorks
• Senior UI Designer at Adobe Systems, Inc.

• Director of Methodology at Axance
• Senior User Interface Designer, Manager UI and Usability at TiVo, Inc.
• Senior User Interface Designer at Excite, Inc.
• Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs, Research

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Education

• Stanford University
• Cambridge University

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Computer Software

Lynn Cherny’s Summary

An experienced designer of products ranging from digital television (TiVo) to consumer web applications (Excite and Axance.com in France), software for designers (Adobe and Autodesk), and tools for scientific visualization and biotechnology (The Mathworks). I have consulted for companies including Intel, France Telecom, internet startups, and SolidWorks Corporation, doing competitive reviews, expert design evaluation, persona creation, statistical data analysis, and design (research, requirements, design mockups, specs, project management). My passion is contributing to "data-driven design."

I've published two books about the internet and online community and keep up on research literature, research methods, and new technologies. I'm always interested in speaking to classes, companies, or at conferences about online community, data analysis, interface design.

Lynn Cherny’s Specialties:

interaction design, data analysis, ethnography, consumer products, web design, functional specifications, community sites, video observation, customer research, user experience, statistics, data mining, research methods

Lynn Cherny’s Experience

• User Interaction Design Manager

  Autodesk

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  Manager of small team of interaction design and visual design for an architectural design desktop application. Responsible for user research (surveys, interviews, other data analysis) and design management, as well as many aspects of the process for design and design deliverables in the organization.

• Principal Usability Specialist

  The MathWorks

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 8 months)

  I worked on bioinformatics, biological simulation, and data analysis/visualization tools.

• Senior UI Designer

  Adobe Systems, Inc.

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Designed for interoperability and UI consistency in the Creative Suite 2 bundle, which consisted of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat. Features I worked on were color management synchronization and settings and PDF export.

• Director of Methodology

  Axance

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year)

  Axance is a web usability consulting company in Paris, France. Responsible for international projects and project oversight, as well as extending business into design consulting.

• Senior User Interface Designer, Manager UI and Usability

  TiVo, Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TIVO; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  I was hired as a Senior UI Designer and became manager of the UI and Usability group before leaving for an opportunity in Paris.
  (I also consulted here for 3 months after I returned from France in 2002.)

• Senior User Interface Designer

  Excite, Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

  I was hired as one of the first UI designers, and worked on complex web applications while I was there. I left soon after the @Home merger.

• Member of Technical Staff

  AT&T Labs, Research

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years)

  Research on internet community, chat, newsgroups, IM; computer game UIs, especially multiplayer; usability.

Lynn Cherny’s Education

• Stanford University

  Ph.D., Linguistics, HCI, 1990 — 1995

  My dissertation was an early study on online user-extensible chat community, later published as Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual World (CSLI, 1999).

• Cambridge University

  M.Phil., Computational Speech & Language, 1989 — 1990

Additional Information

Lynn Cherny’s Interests:

design, photography, science fiction, gardening, data visualization, video editing

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