Steve Diller
Steve Diller has more than 20 years of strategy and marketing consulting experience. He leads Cheskin’s Experience Design Studio and also drives Cheskin’s innovation practice. Diller’s impressive roster of clients includes the Washington Post, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, LG and Weight Watchers. He has contributed to numerous books, including The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, The Principles of Trust, and Newspaper Brand Development and has produced and directed several feature films.
Nathan Shedroff is one of the pioneers of experience design, which has been the focus of his speaking and teaching engagements, his writing, and his professional projects. Part designer, part entrepreneur, he provides strategic thinking and design consultation to companies seeking to provide their customers better experiences in a variety of media, including print, digital, online, and product design. He was twice nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award, as well as for a National Design Award. Nathan is the program chair of California College of the Art's groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy. He is also the author of Experience Design I (New Riders).
Darrel Rhea is CEO of the innovation consulting firm, Cheskin and is considered to be one of the world’s most influential strategic design consultants. In addition to his work in executive coaching and training for international organizations, over the past 25 years his leverage of research for user-based design has influenced thousands of products, services and brands for the world’s leading companies. A frequent keynote speaker to business audiences around the globe, he is a leading advocate for customer-led innovation, design research, and design management practices. Rhea was featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, and won the Jay Doblin Design Award for his contributions to experience design.
Steve Diller
Cheskin's CEO, Darrel Rhea, has 25 years of consulting experience to over a 100 Fortune 1000 firms, leads professional development seminars for senior executives worldwide, and has received an industry award for design theory. Cheskin's Experience Strategist, Steve Diller, has over 20 years in marketing and consulting. Recent clients include Cablevision, The Washington Post, Microsoft, and WeightWatchers. A key voice on product and brand experience, he speaks at conferences and has contributed to numerous books. Nathan Shedroff, a pioneer in experience design, has produced books and articles on interactive media and information design. He chairs the AIGA Center for Brand Experience.
Darrel Rhea
Steve Diller, a partner at Cheskin, has more than 20 years of strategy and market-ing consulting experience. He leads Cheskin’s Experience Design Studio and also drives Cheskin’s media content practice. Diller’s impressive roster of clients includes the Washington Post, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Pulitzer and Weight Watchers. He has contributed to numerous books, including The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, The Principles of Trust, and Newspaper Brand Development and has produced and di-rected several feature films.
Nathan Shedroff is one of the pioneers of experience design, which has been the focus of his speaking and teaching engagements, his writing, and his professional projects. Part designer, part entrepreneur, he provides strategic thinking and design consultation to companies seeking to provide their customers better experiences in a variety of media, including print, digital, online, and product design. A founding member of the International Academy for Digital Arts and Sciences, he was twice nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award, as well as for a National Design Award. He is also the author of Experience Design (New Riders, 2001).
Darrel Rhea is CEO of the innovation consulting firm, Cheskin and is considered to be one of the world’s most influential strategic design consultants. In addition to his work in executive coaching and training for international organizations, over the past 25 years Rhea has influenced the design of thousands of products and brands for many of the world’s leading companies. A thought leader in the practice of experience design, Rhea is a contributing columnist on innovation for Business Week Online, was featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, and won the Jay Doblin Design Award for his contributions to experience design.
Darrel Rhea
Steve Diller has more than 20 years of strategy and marketing consulting experience. He leads Cheskin’s Experience Design Studio and also drives Cheskin’s innovation practice. Diller’s impressive roster of clients includes the Washington Post, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, LG and Weight Watchers. He has contributed to numerous books, including The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, The Principles of Trust, and Newspaper Brand Development and has produced and directed several feature films.
Nathan Shedroff is one of the pioneers of experience design, which has been the focus of his speaking and teaching engagements, his writing, and his professional projects. Part designer, part entrepreneur, he provides strategic thinking and design consultation to companies seeking to provide their customers better experiences in a variety of media, including print, digital, online, and product design. He was twice nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award, as well as for a National Design Award. Nathan is the program chair of California College of the Art's groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy. He is also the author of Experience Design I (New Riders).
Darrel Rhea is CEO of the innovation consulting firm, Cheskin and is considered to be one of the world’s most influential strategic design consultants. In addition to his work in executive coaching and training for international organizations, over the past 25 years his leverage of research for user-based design has influenced thousands of products, services and brands for the world’s leading companies. A frequent keynote speaker to business audiences around the globe, he is a leading advocate for customer-led innovation, design research, and design management practices. Rhea was featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, and won the Jay Doblin Design Award for his contributions to experience design.
Nathan Shedroff
Nathan Shedroff has been an information and interface designer for over twelve years. He focuses on developing online experiences, building online brand strategies and business models, and developing online communities. Throughout his career, he has worked in several different media and authored several books on multimedia, computers, and information. His electronic experience spans CD-ROMs, kiosks, published titles, application development, and online experiences.
He co-founded vivid studios, a decade-old pioneering company in interactive media. Prior to that, he worked with Richard Saul Wurman as a senior designer at TheUnderstandingBusiness. He earned a BS in Industrial Design, with emphasis in Automobile Design, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Nathan is actively defining and developing new understandings of all aspects of experience design, including information and interaction design, communication, visual design, and online brand development. He is a leader in these fields and is constantly innovating as well as sharing those innovations with others.
Nathan was nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award in 1994 and 1999, a National Design Award in 2001 and, while a student, received an Honorable Mention in the 1987 Unisys Industrial Design Competition.
Nathan teaches and speaks often at both international colleges and professional seminars. He has written and designed several books and maintains a website with resources on Interaction Design at http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/
Nathan Shedroff
Nathan Shedroff has been an information and interface designer for over eight years. He worked with Richard Saul Wurman as a senior designer at The Understanding Business, helping to design the Pacific Bell Smart Yellow Pages and the book, Information Anxiety. He co-founded vivid studios in 1990, leading creative teams in developing new interaction paradigms for digital reference tools, online worlds, and productivity software. Nathan was nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award in 1994, and lectures regularly at Stanford University and San Francisco State University. He has spoken at numerous industry-related conferences, and university programs in Helsinki and Tampere, Finland, Amsterdam, and San Francisco. More information about Experience Design will be available at his web site, www.nathan.com.