Director, User Experience Research at Yahoo!
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Director, User Experience Research at Yahoo!
- Adjunct professor at UCLA
- Adjunct Professor at Art Center College of Design
- Consultant & Lecturer at Nielsen Norman Group
- Past
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- Senior User Experience Manager at Shopzilla (formerly BizRate)
- Principal User Interface Designer at Symantec
- Senior User interface designer at Citibank
- Sr. Director of User Interface & Educational Design at Cloud 9 Interactive
- Senior Interactive Media Interface Designer at American Interactive media
- Skater at Holiday on Ice, silver division
- Education
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- Ohio State
- California State University, Northridge
- UCLA
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Jill Strawbridge’s Summary
I have been a User Interface Designer and Researcher for over 20 years, working as both an in-house design & research expert and as a design consultant. I have helped many prominent companies, including Yahoo!, Citibank, Symantec, Xerox and Philips, improve their customers’ user experience. In addition to my design & research practice, I also have taught extensively at the college and professional level, both domestically and abroad. I am currently an adjunct professor at the Art Center College of Design and an adjunct professor in the graduate psychology department at UCLA. I also lecture internationally on the topic of advanced usability testing practices for the Nielsen/Norman Group.
Jill Strawbridge’s Specialties:
User Interface Design & User Experience Research. Business, e-commerce and consumer facing products. Internet and software applications. User Experience Design and Evaluation for both Domestic and International customers.
Jill Strawbridge’s Experience
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Director, User Experience Research
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; yhoo; Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
I lead a team of user experience researchers in the Advertising & Publishing Group (APG) of Yahoo! We work on the advertising side of Yahoo!'s business, working closely with the User Experience Designers on the design of systems that connect online advertisers, agencies, ad networks and publishers.
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Adjunct professor
UCLA
(Higher Education industry)
2003 — Present (5 years)
Adjunct professor of User Interface Design in the psychology department of UCLA from 2003 – present. A member of the committee formed to create a new minor degree in Human Computer Interaction within the psychology department at UCLA.
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Adjunct Professor
Art Center College of Design
(Higher Education industry)
June 2002 — Present (6 years 7 months)
I teach a Human Factors Design Psychology course that is required for all Product, Transportation and Environmental students at Art Center.
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Consultant & Lecturer
Nielsen Norman Group
(Internet industry)
May 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)
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Senior User Experience Manager
Shopzilla (formerly BizRate)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
July 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 1 month)
I managed a team of designers and researchers who worked on the design of the e-commerce websites Bizrate.com and Shopzilla.com.
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Principal User Interface Designer
Symantec
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2006 (7 years)
I worked on the design and evaluation of both consumer and enterprise internet security applications.
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Senior User interface designer
Citibank
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1997 — February 1999 (2 years)
As a member of the User Centered Design group at the Citibank Development center in Los Angeles, I worked on the design and evaluation of both consumer and enterprise-facing applications, for both domestic and international customers.
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Sr. Director of User Interface & Educational Design
Cloud 9 Interactive
(Computer Software industry)
1985 — February 1997 (12 years)
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Senior Interactive Media Interface Designer
American Interactive media
(Computer Software industry)
September 1990 — 1993 (3 years)
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Skater
Holiday on Ice, silver division
(Performing Arts industry)
July 1980 — January 1981 (7 months)
Jill Strawbridge’s Education
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Ohio State
Ph.D., Human Factors, minors in Gerontology and Industrial & Organizational Psychology, September 1985 — December 1989
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California State University, Northridge
M.A., Human Factors/Applied Experimental Psychology, August 1983 — December 1985
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UCLA
BA, Psychology, specialization in Women's Studies, September 1977 — June 1982
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