Dane Howard is a Design leader & Entrepreneur. He has built his career through helping companies’ design, prototype and build products.

With a background in sequential media, he has focused much of his work on fast, agile prototyping within a context of a product story. User-focused design and serial thinking are the emphasis of his work. Dane has worked on an international scale with Directors of Design, Marketing and R&D labs, Senior Executives of Technology and Chief Executive Officers.

He has played a principle design and leadership role in developing key strategies for Microsoft, Designworks | BMW, Major League Baseball, Scient Corporation, Quokka Sports, NBCOlympics, VUVOX & eBay. His work & travels have brought him experience in working both in Europe & Asia.

He co-founded VUVOX in 2006, which was acquired in 2008 by eBay. He was a design leader at eBay attributed with designing eBay mobile, the preVIZ movement, and the ebay design playbook.

Dane is an author, painter, photographer, designer, and father. A personal website for his kids spawned a book entitled, The Future of Memories to help anyone better prepare, document and share their life’s stories.

Dane frequently speaks on innovation, design & cultural change. He is also an advisor to ‘standbeautiful.me’ an anti-bullying movement promoting the acceptance of self and others. He is currently the Head of UX design and research at Amazon Care.