NOV 17-19, 2009
San Jose, CA
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
search • discover • inform • deliver • connect
ENABLING INFORMATION ACCESS & ACTION
Mr William Evans
Director, Experience Design
Semantic Foundry, LLC

Will Evans is Director, Experience Design for Semantic Foundry with 14 years industry experience in interaction design, information architecture, and user experience strategy. His experiences includes directing UX for social network analytics and terrorism modeling at AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site Gather.com, and UX Architect responsible for the design of Kayak.com. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Prior to Curl, Will was an interaction designer for Dataware working on various search and Knowledge Management related product suites including KM Suite II and QueryServer.

Will earned an MBA as well as Masters Degrees in human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. His passions include design and critical theory, information architecture, information visualization information seeking behavior. He lives in Philadelphia, PA, drinks far to much coffee, wears only black, and is Design Co-Chair for the IxDA's Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia. He was recently elected to the board of directors of the Information Architecture Institute.

A distinguished speaker, Will provides lectures and seminars on such topics as user experience, strategic design, social interaction design, and findability. Will's work has been featured in numerous publications including Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal.

Sessions by William Evans
Enterprise Search Summit West 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search

Enterprise Search Summit 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. A-3: Emergent Social Search Experiences