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Liz Danzico

Liz Danzico
Information Architect, Usability Analyst, Editor, Bobulate

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Liz Danzico is equal parts information architect, usability analyst, and editor. With nearly ten years of experience as a user experience professional, she makes information useful, usable, and delightful for websites of all shapes and sizes. Liz has organized information for sites across a variety of industries, including retail, publishing, media and entertainment, nonprofit, and financial services. Today, Liz spends her days in Brooklyn where she organizes information of all shapes and sizes. She is forthcoming Chair of the new MFA in Interaction Design Program, starting in Fall 2009 at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She does independent consulting in New York and is user experience consultant for Happy Cog, editor for Rosenfeld Media, a publisher of user experience books, editor-in-chief for A Brief Message, 200 words or less about design, board member of AIGA/New York, and advisory board member of the Information Architecture Institute and SXSW Interactive Festival.

Liz has been editor-in-chief for Boxes and Arrows and has held the position of director of experience strategy for AIGA, where she was responsible for the national web presence and all online and New Riders publications. Before that, she led the information architecture teams at Barnes & Noble.com and Razorfish New York.

She occasionally keeps track of things at Bobulate.com.

Sessions

11:00am Friday, 09/19/2008
Topic: Design & UX
Location: 1A21 & 22
Liz Danzico (Bobulate), Jeffrey Zeldman (Happy Cog Studios), Alex Wright (The New York Times), Kristina Halvorson (Brain Traffic), Paul Ford (Harper's Magazine, Harpers.org, FTrain.com, The Morning News), Bre Pettis (MakerBot Industries)
Web copy has advanced to one of the most central parts of a user's experience. Copy, not rounded corners and gradients, are what makes for an interface that's usable and useful. Hear from a panel of experts designing today's top-notch sites how to pay attention to words—from guide copy to user comments to navigation labels—so you can improve the user experience for everyone. Read more.