Robert Reimann has spent the last 25+ years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, and consultant. He has led dozens of web, desktop, and device-based interaction design projects, for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Robert has lectured on interaction design and UX methods and principles at major universities and corporations, and to international industry audiences.

Robert was a founding director and first President of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He has also held advisory board positions for AIGA Experience Design, the Information Architecture Institute, and UC Berkeley's Institute of Design (BiD) and was a board member of Design Museum Boston from 2010-2012. With Alan Cooper, Robert is co-author of two bestselling editions of About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design.

Robert's past positions include Principal Interaction Designer at PatientsLikeMe and Sonos, Associate Creative Director at frog design, Manager of User Experience at Bose, and Director of Design R&D at Cooper, where he played a key role building their design practice, and in the development and refinement of their goal-directed design methods, including personas and scenario-based design. Robert is currently a Director of Experience Design at athenahealth.

For over 30 years, Alan Cooper has been a pioneer of the modern computing era. His groundbreaking work in software design and construction has influenced a generation of programmers and business people alike and helped a generation of users embrace interaction design. He is best known as the "Father of Visual Basic" and is the founder of Cooper, a leading interaction design consultancy.

Christopher Noessel has shaped interaction design for over thirty years. He directed information design at marchFIRST, prototyped future technologies for Microsoft, and became the first Design Fellow at Cooper. At IBM as Design Principal he ran the worldwide Design for AI guild and developed AI training for designers. Publications include Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction (Rosenfeld Media 2012, with Nathan Shedroff), the 4th edition of About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Wiley 2014), Pair Design (OReilly 2016, with Gretchen Anderson), Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People (Rosenfeld Media 2017). He maintains the blog scifiinterfaces. He has published two short fiction stories. His most recent book, Designing Assistant Technology: AI That Makes People Smarter (Rosenfeld Media 2026), helps designers understand the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI assistants.

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