Anant Athale has a passion for software engineering. His areas of practice include web and mobile user interface architecture, enterprise Java architecture, and big data architecture. He has two issued patents and has a Master's degree in Engineering from Arizona State University.
Ildikó Balla is a user experience consultant / interaction designer currently living in Sydney, Australia. Her experience of over six years in the field includes working on mobile, web, and desktop applications ranging from simple sites to complex back office solutions and e-commerce platforms. Specializing in interaction design and medium-fidelity prototyping, she has used Axure as her tool of choice for the past five years. She is a proficient-to-expert user of Axure 6.0 and all versions above that. As a part of her dedication and desire to become an expert user of Axure, she successfully completed several training courses in Axure prototyping for web and mobile led by Ritch Macefield—Europe's only English language trainer at the time (www.axperts.com).
She is currently working as UX consultant for reInteractive (www.reinteractive.net), Australia's largest Ruby on Rails-focussed development company producing custom web-based software for a diverse range of clients. More specifically, in this role she is in charge of requirements analysis, information architecture, interaction design, and user testing for complex web applications and business intelligence solutions. Some of her short articles about UX, interaction design, and prototyping can be found on the reInteractive company blog. Before moving to Australia, she was a long-term employee of REEA (www.reea.net), a web development company based in Tirgu-Mures, Romania. During her six years of employment, she had a great opportunity not only in her role as a UX/interaction designer on exciting and challenging projects, such as brand campaigns, interactive social engagement platforms, and complex administrative solutions, but also in establishing and leading a small team of junior interaction designers.
She is a regular attendee of the yearly Axure World web event and similar Axure and UX-related events around the virtual space. She is reasonably active on LinkedIn forums and of course, the Axure forum as well, sharing knowledge, asking questions, and sometimes discussing controversial user experience topics. She has also just recently been interviewed by one of the Axure community's most well-known authors, Ezra Schwartz, in regard to her experience with shared projects. A version of this interview will be published in Ezra's latest book about prototyping with Axure RP Pro.
In her spare time, she is often found taking pictures, travelling, riding, and learning new languages, though usually not all at the same time.
Melissa Krahenbuhl is a certified professional life coach and has over 20 years of experience in accounting, administration, and organizational development.
She received numerous acknowledgements during the 10 plus years she spent at Motorola Mobility.
Jessamyn Smallenburg earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, followed by a Master of Information Science degree with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has consulted on usability, user experience, and information architecture for both the health insurance and automobile industries.
Her goals are to create top-notch IA structures and user experiences to facilitate learning and interaction. When she is not working, she is inquiring into psychological concepts and pursuing the perfection of photographic technique. Her graduate school projects and nature photography portfolio are located on her website, www.jessamynsmallenburg.com.
Wahne Lducia Tubman is a user experience designer, user researcher, strategist, and web developer. She has over 14 years of experience in designing software interfaces, conducting user research, managing design teams, and spearheading the design phase of technology projects for companies including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, HBO, and Standard Bank.
A global citizen with deep cultural insights, she now lives in Johannesburg. She is passionate about making applications easy to use and leveraging the power of the Internet to help companies grow their businesses online.
She founded Enwah Interactive, a software design studio. Enwah Interactive specializes in building customer-friendly solutions for banks and financial services companies. Enwah employs customer-centric design methodologies to designs and builds easy-to-use and enjoyable e-business and mobile applications for African consumers.
She studied Interactive Telecommunications at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and holds a BA in marketing and communications from Pepperdine University.