Philip Fierlinger
Head of Design, Xero

Philip Fierlinger is the Head of Design at Xero. Xero is an online accounting platform, which was awarded one of the Top 10 Application User Interfaces of 2008 by NielsenNorman Group. Philip established the agile design methodology used at Xero, which is centered on rapid prototyping.

Prior to Xero, Philip worked extensively on NewZealand.com, which received several Webby Awards.

In 1994, Philip founded Turntable, a digital design firm in San Francisco that did groundbreaking websites and interactive videos for bands and record labels, plus technology companies like Apple, Sony and Palm.

He blogs at http://blog.xero.com and http://turntablemedia.com/blog/about