I Help Organizations to Build More Mature User Research Practices

Created 9 years ago in Product & Design / User Experience

Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting. In the past 15 years Steve has interviewed families eating breakfast, rock musicians, home-automation enthusiasts, credit-default swap traders, and radiologists. His work has informed the development of music gear, wine packaging, medical information systems, corporate intranets, videoconferencing systems, and iPod accessories. Steve is an accomplished presenter who speaks about culture, innovation, and design at companies like eBay, Adobe, Hewlett-Packard, and Dolby Laboratories. He writes regularly on topics from interaction design to pop culture for interactions, Core77, Ambidextrous, and Johnny Holland. Steve has a graduate degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Guelph and is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Groceries in his home.