Trained in cognitive science with 20 years experience
in interface, product
design
and user studies
Track record of innovation
and accomplishment in real-world interface, product design and teaching
Key accomplishments
include Quicktime, the Audrey, MusicNet, more.com , the Active Eye, MicroDesign
and DIVER, Yahoo!Sports for TV.
Combines hands-on skills
in rapid prototyping and product visualization with creative leadership and
management
Holder of several interface
design patents; author of many articles on interface design
Professional experience
includes: Director of User Experience, Advanced Products and Digital Home (Yahoo!), Tenured Faculty (NYU),
Principal Scientist (Apple Computer),
Senior Interaction Designer (IDEO),
Director of User
interface
(more.com), Chief Interface Technologist
(AlterEgo Networks).
Consultancies for many
companies including: Apple Computer, Macromedia, McGraw-Hill, New York Hall
of Science, American Museum of the Moving Image, General Physics Corporation,
Private Retail Networks, Interval Research Corp, .
At present: Director
of Design, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL);
Adjunct
Professor, Stanford University, Learning
Design and Technology Master's Program
Lives aboard and sails
Torrens, a beautiful 41' Ketch in Redwood
City, CA.
michael_i_mills@yahoo.com