Michael Mitchell

SUMMARY

Director of User Experience known for far-reaching vision and passion for accelerating the possibilities of the future. Adept at inspiring, leading and challenging creative and technical teams. Works effectively with design and engineering teams to conceptualize, design, build and launch innovative products. Entrepreneurial ventures have centered on simplifying interactions with convergent technologies to make them broadly usable and truly pervasive.

Human factors engineer with over 20 years of experience investigating and designing for human-machine interaction and usability. Inventive interaction designer, forward-thinking strategist and big-picture connector-of-dots who works with companies and organizations seeking to design, test and improve innovative devices, software applications, services and games for desktop, web and mobile platforms.

• Creative direction
• Interaction design
• Rapid prototyping and conceptual exploration
• Wireframe development
• Information architecture
• Information design and data visualization
• Heuristic evaluations and experience audits
• User testing and design recommendations

Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Human Factors Option, Human-Computer Interaction Concentration) from Virginia Tech, and an M.S. in Human Factors Psychology from the University of Idaho.

INTERESTS

Convergent interests center on personal and small-group situational awareness. Related interests include designing for challenged and at-risk populations, artificial intelligence, mirror worlds, human attention, pervasive gaming, unified profiles, augmented reality, augmented social networks, human information processing, compressed language, living timelines, relationship management, decision management, simulations, predictive displays and auto-animated stories.