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Emily Chang is an award-winning web and interaction designer, technology strategist and co-founder of Ideacodes, a design and web consultancy in San Francisco that she started with long-time partner, Max Kiesler.
She writes about web and user experience design, technology, and next generation web at EmilyChang.com, and is the creator of the popular web 2.0 resource, eHub and eHub Interviews (including the translated eHub Channel at CNET Japan). She's also the co-creator of Twitterverse.com, a word and tag mashup based on Twitter's public messages. Most recently, Emily launched PicoCool, "a new site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Cool content from real people." PicoCool is the first site of its kind to focus on the content being created by people on social networks and through peer media.
For the past eleven years, Emily has designed and produced hundreds of websites and web products for technology start-ups, businesses, leading universities and colleges, blog companies, non-profits, art and media and organizations as diverse as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Stylehive, GigaOM,Six Apart, Hewlett Packard and the Sierra Club. Her expertise ranges from strategy to design to user experience and programming for social web applications, web communities, hybrid media sites, personalized portals and content management systems, to social software and blogs.
Emily is an advisory member of the Web 2.0 Expo design and user experience committee, a judge on the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, has been a panelist at the SXSW Interactive conference, and was an invited member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, Ajax Developer's Journal and Corante Web Hub. Her internet work has garnered dozens of design and interactive awards, including a SXSW finalist award for community weblog, two prestigious Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) grand gold awards in interactive media, IBM Best Practices Partner for a portal to serve university students, and Web Marketing Association's Best University website.
