Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Greater San Diego Area United States
Occupation
User Experience Coach, Writer, Speaker
Industry
Technology / Software / Internet
Website
whitneyhess.com/
About
Whitney Hess coaches business leaders on how to more mindfully and compassionately design their products, their companies and themselves. She writes at Pleasure & Pain and co-hosts the podcast Designing Yourself. Her life’s mission is to put humanity back into business.
Best known for her work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Seamless and Boxee, Whitney has spent the last decade partnering with senior leaders and product teams at Fortune 500s, nonprofits and startups.
Whitney graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor’s in Professional Writing and H...
Tags
ux
user experience
design
whitneyhess
empathy
self-development
leadership
sidebar
community
conflict
communication
compassion
emotional intelligence
culture
management
influence
persuasion
web
experience
user
ias09
iasummit2009
iasummit
iasummit09
twitter
ias2009
relationships
judgment
collaboration
sustainability
social
adaptability
listening
present
development
presence
social awareness
eq
social and emotional intelligence
mindfulness
relationship management
self
design thinking
web design and development
strategy
problem solving
product strategy
web design
user experience design
ethos
philosophy
design principles
design fail
mantra
education
diy
wharton
higher ed
university
higher education
usability
vision
persuade
negotiation
negotiate
makers
keynote
closing keynote
career
ideas
ias10
calling
tribe
tools
closing plenary
plenary
passion
inspirational
iasummit2010
designers
usability testing
programmers
user research
design research
entrepreneurs
experimentation
web analytics
user testing
developers
iteration
how to
misconceptions
list
10
top
interaction
information
architecture
interface
ui
product
beta
boxee
ixda_nyc
interaction09
ixd09
networking
confidence
blogging
iasummut
selfpromotion
freelance
consulting
See more
- Presentations
- Documents
- Infographics