We are very pleased to be hosting Doug Gibson, Senior Manager of the UI Design team at Symantec for our Coffee on Thursday June 10th. We’ll be back in Cambridge at Endeca. We’ve changed the format to allow time for networking after the presentation.
User Experience and Documentation – Strategic Partnerships for Success
Speaker: Doug Gibson, Senior Manager of the UI Design team at Symantec
In today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing market, companies must operate at peak efficiently to thrive or even survive. Departments that do not innovate and show compelling contributions face further cuts. User Experience and Documentation teams are hard pressed and many budgets have been cut. However, there are a great number of strategic and innovative partnerships possible between these departments that can visibly increase the contributions of both groups, and provide much needed additional value to the company.
This highly interactive session with explore a variety areas in which User Experience and Documentation teams can collaborate as well as follow the development and progress of a successful ongoing collaboration at Symantec.
Doug Gibson is the Senior Manager of the UI Design team at Symantec and has been designing compelling user experiences for over 20 years for companies including: Polaroid, Kronos, Data General, General Motors and LLBean.
Presently he leads a team of 10 UI designers creating breakthrough designs for many of Symantec’s most successful products and services. Doug is known for strategic management, partnerships, and innovations that have allowed his team to continually overachieve in delivering value to the company.
Doug has served as Chair of BostonCHI (the Boston chapter of the ACM’s subgroup on Computer-Human Interactions) from 2007 till 2010 and occasionally teaches UI Design at the Harvard University Extension School.
Doug encourages his team to innovate and he has personally received multiple user interface design patents. He holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Psychology from Duke University.