Product experience strategy and design
USA

Jesse James Garrett helps companies solve user experience problems. He speaks for design, technology and business audiences all over the world on innovation and product strategy and current trends in interactive product design.

Jesse Garrett applies an understanding of user psychology to create experiences that deliver real value for both companies and customers.

Jesse has deep experience with website development, but he designs experiences for all kinds of products and services. The Charmr, his latest project, is an idea for a diabetes-management tool that has the customer appeal of an iPod.

He is the author of The Elements of User Experience, which provides a conceptual framework for the field of user experience in web design.

Jesse is perhaps best known for coining the term Ajax, a technique for blending several technologies to make the web a better platform for software applications. Ajax makes it so that the user is never staring at a blank browser window or an hourglass icon, waiting for something to happen. He is a leading developer of Ajax tools.

For naming the idea and publishing his manifesto, Jesse won a 2006 Rave Award from Wired magazine.

Jesse James Garrett is the founding president of Adaptive Path, an experience strategy and design consulting firm.

Credentials

• Founding president of Adaptive Path
• Author,The Elements of User Experience
• Coined the term AJAX and defined its concepts
• Recipient,WiredMagazine’s 2006 Rave Award for Technology
• One of the “50 Most Important People on the Web,“ PC World magazine
• One of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in IT”, eWeek magazine
• One of the top 100 technology industry leaders, Software Development Times magazine