Meet Mozilla’s UX Team

We’re a fun lovin’ bunch dedicated to helping design great products that make sense and bring joy to people.

Patryk Adamczyk
Senior User Experience Designer, focusing on Mobile, currently working on the Gaia / Boot 2 Gecko project and contributing to the various flavours of mobile Firefox. Prior to joining Mozilla in the fall of 2011, Patryk spend over 7 years designing every colour BlackBerry handheld UI up to the PlayBook 2. Living in Toronto, Patryk holds a Bachelor of Design from York University & Sheridan College. He enjoys photography, travel, cycling, rapid modes of transportation and is an active RGD member in the local design community.

Ian Barlow
Ian works on the visual and interaction design of Firefox on mobile devices, as well as Pancake, a cloud-based browser concept. He comes from a design studio background, working across print and digital media on branding, advertising, corporate communications, illustration, and user interface design. Ian lives and works in Toronto, and you can find him on irc.mozilla.org as “ibarlow”.

Crystal Beasley
Dirty pragmatic user experience designer who’s happiest with a whiteboard marker in hand. Hey, who used up all my post-it notes when I wasn’t looking?

Josh Carpenter
A native of British Columbia, Canada, Josh has been working in design for interaction, mobile and motion for over 10 years. Most recently Josh was the Creative Director for New Space Technologies, a Vancouver building automation firm, creating touch interfaces for homes, offices, and stadiums.

Bryan Clark
Bryan is a Designer at Mozilla and the team lead for the Services User Experience group.  Previously at Mozilla Messaging heading up UX for Thunderbird, Bryan came from Red Hat as an Interaction Designer working on projects like One Laptop Per Child.  Bryan studied Computer Science and Psychology, prototyping is his favorite design phase.  He loves beer, coffee, and good food.

Larissa Co
Larissa is a User Experience Designer who is passionate about education and increasing dignity in the world. Prior to joining Mozilla, she worked at Kno, an education technology startup. Larissa graduated from Stanford where she learned to create people-centered products (B.S. Product Design) and incorporate learning outcomes into her designs (M.A. Education).

Brian Dils
Brian is a person who designs stuff.

Madhava Enros
As Mozilla’s resident designer at small, Madhava Enros spearheads the design effort to adapt Firefox’s user-experience to mobile devices. With more than 10 years in interaction design, Madhava has helped design everything from IBM’s database configuration tools to the Firefox add-ons manager. He is a frequent speaker on issues of mobile interface and interaction design, particularly around the unique challenges of building for the mobile Web. Madhava has a degree in human factors engineering from the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto where he is an influential member of the city’s Indo-Finno-Franco-Canadian community.

Zhenshuo Fang
Zhenshuo is a User Experience Designer at Mozilla. She studied Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University and Automotive Design at Tsinghua University. With a multidisciplinary background in HCI, Industrial design and Mechanical engineering, she is enthusiastic about designing innovative products and making technology more usable and enjoyable for people.

Stephen Horlander
Stephen is a senior Visual Designer and team lead at Mozilla. He is a long time contributor to Firefox, having worked on the default themes (Winstripe and Pinstripe) for Firefox 1.0. His input has helped shape the visual appearance of Firefox since the beginning, and most recently acted as the lead visual designer for the Australis project. His unknown claim to fame is designing the RSS feed icon. He likes coffee and making pretty things.

Alex Limi
Alex is responsible for Product Design Strategy at Mozilla, which is another way of saying that he predicts the future by inventing it. He was formerly User Experience Lead for the Firefox team, and worked at Google prior to joining Mozilla in 2009. He’s also the founder of the open source project Plone. Full bio can be found at http://limi.net/about if you are so inclined.

Gregg Lind
Gregg does statistics and writes code in support of the user research team.
In his spare time, he does tech advocacy work (Pystar and PyMNtos).
In past lives, he was an archaeologist, a busboy, a mandolinist, a public health researcher, and made maps of the interwebs for Renesys.  Say hi to him in Minneapolis.

Diane Loviglio
Diane is a User Experience Researcher at Mozilla.  Prior to joining  Mozilla, she co-created the first conference to focus on tech failures  (FailCon) and co-founded a clean tech startup (Wattbot). She has also worked as a freelance researcher for technology and healthcare startups.

Jennifer Morrow
Jennifer (nickname “Boriss”) is a User Experience Designer at Mozilla.  Prior to joining Mozilla, she worked at NASA and VMware.  Jennifer has a Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, a BS in Human-Computer Interaction, and a BFA in Communication Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Bram Pitoyo
A former anthropologer and design strategist at Wieden+Kennedy, Bram Pitoyo now dabbles in the intersection of user experience, architecture, game design and most other subjects, and strives to be a dissident against materialist reductionism.  Despite his long-time affection for typography, he still cannot figure out if this a disease or a vocation.

Maria Sandberg

 

Cori Schauer
Cori is a senior user experience researcher at Mozilla. She has 13 years of experience working for various clients and sectors. Prior to Mozilla, Cori was an ethnographer for the Human Space Flight program at NASA. Cori is a pragmatist, and believes in making research accessible and actionable. She uses design research methods to uncover issues, identify opportunities, start conversations, create consensus, and build the right solutions. Cori has a BA in Professional Writing, English, and Cultural Anthropology and a Masters of Design in Communication Planning and Information Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ilana Segall
Ilana is a Quantitative User Researcher. She came to Mozilla after eighteen months working at a startup (Lexity) that is attempting to help automate advertising for small business using data mining. Prior to that, she was getting my master’s at Stanford in the field of Applied Mathematics (ICME).  She joined Mozilla because she is thrilled to be a part of such an enthusiastic and forward-thinking open source community, and she looks forward to learning more about how Firefox users behave and using this information to help make the web a happier place.

Mary Trombley
Mary Trombley is a user researcher at Mozilla.  Prior to working at Mozilla, Mary was a UX Engineer for data integration and quality tools at IBM Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, CA.

Yuan Wang
Yuan is a User Experience Designer at Mozilla. She studied Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University and interned at Lenovo Research Center. With 6-year extra-curricular study on fine arts, experience as a freelance designer, and a bachelor degree in Info Systems and Management, she’s always aspiring to the perfect combination of art, technology, and people. She also loves info visualization, photography, and salsa dancing.

Jono Xia
As the main developer responsible for Test Pilot, Jono is the one to blame for those notifications about new studies that keep popping up in your beta version of Firefox.  He’s interested in the intersection of usable software design with open-source development, privacy issues, and the need to preserve an open Web. Jono writes games in HTML5 and plays the accordion and Japanese taiko drums.

Jinghua Zhang
Jinghua is the head of User Experience team in Mozilla. Prior to joining Mozilla, she worked in Google and Microsoft as an advocate and catalyst for understanding users needs. She loves to help projects  align product strategy with user needs, and solve real (un-articulated) problems for people.

The UX interns:

Brian Groudan
Brian has always enjoyed the challenge of crafting an intuitive user experience. He recently completed his 5-month undergraduate capstone project with The Economist to reimagine their online debates platform. Before Mozilla, he led the design direction of an enterprise crisis-management system at Boeing as a usability engineering intern. Next year, Brian will be finishing up his B.S. in Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has gained a strong foundation in product design, systems development, user research, and all-nighters. In his free time, Brian blogs about innovation and curates inspiration.

And these are our alumni UX team members:

Jason Grlicky
Jason is a Visual and UX designer at Mozilla. He comes from the land of iPhone app development, specializing in mobile and website design. Jason got degrees in Computer Science and Psychology before realizing that designing great products was his true love. In his spare time, he quite fancies playing synthesizers.

 

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  1. alex_mayorga wrote on :

    Pleased to “meet” you guys, any chance you could take a look at the UI suggestions I made at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594050#c31

    Thanks!

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