David J Gilmore

20+ years working in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Portland, Oregon.

Worked for IDEO, Intel, GE, Logitech and Elekta in roles encompassing human factors, design research, user experience design and user experience leadership.

Ten years as an academic at the University of Nottingham teaching human factors, research methods, human-computer interaction and applied psychology. Numerous research grants and 6 successful PhD students.

Our research in the mid-1990s was some of the first work to demonstrate the need for a concept bigger than usability – we didn’t apply the term ‘user experience’, but it is now clear that those elements that are key to user experience were also central to those experiments on educational technology.

For most of the past 15 years I have been a team leader – of small to large teams – functioning at a corporate, strategic level more than at a tactical, product or feature level.