Amy Quinn 13 I am a Senior User Experience Architect in the UX Services group at Infragistics. As a consultant, I get to help our customers create usable and engaging user interfaces using the controls we have developed here at Infragistics. I also help our customers learn and adopt user experience methodologies. Since I work in such dynamic field, I am always actively learning more about new technologies and methods. I actively publish in user experience journals, write blog articles, and speak at conferences in the field, including the 2009 Usability Professionals’ Association Annual conference. I have been a user experience professional for 8 years. During that period, I have utilized my talents as an interaction designer and design researcher to create usable and engaging user interfaces for a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining Infragistics, I held a senior consulting position at a boutique user experience consulting firm in Chicago called Centralis. I have also worked as part of user experience teams at Allstate, SPSS, and User Centric. I have a Masters of Human Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA in Psychology and History from New York University.
Updates on the Latest Quince Release Amy Quinn / Thu, Oct 6, 2011 We recently made an update to Quince that will make you more efficient with the product and enable you to customize the product for your needs. Application Themes We developed a lighter “IG Theme...
Sometimes You Should Ignore What Your Users Say Amy Quinn / Wed, Jun 1, 2011 Clients often come to me and say, “We must have this feature because our customers say they want it.” These requests are often uncovered during conversations with customers or are gathered from surveys...
The Similarities of Sensory Design and User Experience Amy Quinn / Mon, Mar 28, 2011 I recently attended the Interaction 11 conference in Boulder, CO. Along with some great presentations (check out http://www.ixda.org/resources and http://vimeo.com/user1128734/videos to see them), I was...
A little helpfulness and humor goes a long way Amy Quinn / Mon, Jan 31, 2011 Invariably things will go wrong with your application and most users understand that. Just like a car that occasionally breaks down, people usually expect applications to fail once in a while. But how...
Don’t be Afraid of Your Users Amy Quinn / Thu, Dec 30, 2010 User experience practitioners are advocates for user-centered design. An essential part of this process is involving end users, whether it is through usability testing, contextual interviews, or...
Don’t Forget About the Main Goals Amy Quinn / Mon, Nov 29, 2010 In the United States, today is known as “Cyber Monday,” the Monday after Thanksgiving that is one of the busiest online shopping days of the year. Motivated by this special Christmas shopping day,...
We’re (hopefully) making an appearance at SXSW Interactive 2011 Amy Quinn / Fri, Aug 13, 2010 Some of us in the User Experience Services group submitted presentation proposals to the popular SXSW Interactive 2011 conference . In addition to planning committee recommendations, they use crowd-sourcing...
Making it shine: How we designed the LightSwitch Touch-Friendly Shell Amy Quinn / Thu, Aug 5, 2010 Microsoft just announced LightSwitch, an intriguing addition to Microsoft’s Visual Studio suite of products that allows non-professional programmers to quickly create line of business applications...
Cultivating a Usable Treemap: Treemap Usability Amy Quinn / Fri, Jul 23, 2010 Recently we added a treemap control to our Silverlight Data Visualization product . We’ve had treemap controls in our other product offerings for a couple years, but our newest addition to our Silverlight...
Mind the gap: Keep the needs of both customers and users in mind Amy Quinn / Wed, May 19, 2010 When designing an application, it is important to understand the difference between customers and users. Each role has its own goals, biases and perceptions that are important to consider. When your product...