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Joe Tennis is an Experience Designer who leads companies in developing their product strategies through a research driven process commonly known as User Centered Design. He has been responsible for all aspects of the user experience for interactive applications, kiosks and Web sites with innovative personalization strategies for clients including Bank of America, Digitoy Entertainment, The U.S. Department of Energy, Charles Schwab, WR Hambrecht + Co., Ziff-Davis Publishing and Wells Fargo Bank.

Much of his time is devoted to consulting and writing on user centered design, emerging trends and methods of improving information access. His ongoing work focuses integrating design thinking into business management and adapting existing product strategies to the evolving landscape of human behavior in the on-line space.

Mr. Tennis has taught Advanced Web Design in the graduate and undergraduate programs at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, where he also guest lectures on Web Design & Usability and Information Architecture. Tennis developed and taught workshops in Interactive Design at Kala Institute in Berkeley where he was instrumental in the establishment of one of the San Francisco Bay Areas first multimedia labs and instructional facilities in 1993. It was here he developed an early networked white-board, chat and push publishing system (’Trial & Error’, 1995) and interactive art projects where users could interact from multiple remote locations as they shared messages and played with spontaneous music creation .

As a development reviewer and technical editor to several books on technology, Tennis’s contributions include ‘Creative HTML Design’ (fist edition, New Riders Publishing), ‘Lingo Sorcery; The Magic of Lists, Objects and Intelligent Agents’ (second edition, Wiley Press) and ‘Magical A-Life Avatars’ (Wiley Press) where in 1998 he co-developed one of the early social applications built around the metaphor of a coffee house.

If you have the time, check out Joe’s personal Web Log (blog) or his photography and fine art gallery.

If you would like to buy me a book or just want to know what books I’m interested in, my Amazon wish list is available

His growing Friend of a Friend (FOAF) file is here. Get in touch if you think you should be included there.

Photos will be back online soon, for now, his Flickr collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe10/