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Gavin has 25 years of experience in corporate and academic environments. He founded what grew to be the largest UX firm in the US. After selling the company, he continued to lead the North American UX team to become one of the most profitable business units of the parent organization. Faculty member of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, he provides UX expertise in electronic health records and health technology and consults on research methods for Northwestern studies. Gavin is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences, the inventor of several patents, and co-authored the book, AI and UX: Why Artificial Intelligence Needs User Experience, on how to improve adoption of AI-enabled products and services. He is an adjunct professor at DePaul and Northwestern Universities. Gavin has a MA in Experimental Psychology from Loyola University.
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The user experience (UX) of emerging FinTech might be considered superior in Africa compared to the United States. In Africa, the utility of cryptocurrencies has been communicated and made known, effectively improving the UX of this emerging technology.
During a recent study, we asked participants how long they thought they would have to speak in order for their voice to be uniquely recognized (i.e., voice print). While their estimates varied widely - from 30 seconds to 30 minutes - most people said about three to...
As the robotics industry continues to find its way into our lives, we can begin to identify UX design principles to apply to this tech to increase the acceptance of robots and improve the human-robot interaction experience.
A quick follow-up to our blog posts about AI… The name of the game is no longer Moore's Law where we see processors getting exponentially faster. AI technology is driven not by computing processes of the past, but from an evolution beyond central processing unit (CPU)...