Speaker Bio

Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer is a freelance interaction designer and information architect who specialises in making complex systems simple for people to use. She has more than 6 years experience in senior consulting and in-house roles. She has designed huge intranets & websites, e-commerce & search systems, business applications and a content management system. She has conducted so much user research she can't count it but knows she has facilitated more than 200 usability tests. She continually surprises her colleagues by talking to people rather than computers and designing the old-fashioned way with pencil, markers and reams of coloured paper.

Donna keeps starting then stopping Masters programs, preferring to follow her own path through an increasingly large pile of books. She is an experienced speaker who has presented sessions and workshops at many local and international conferences.

She spends her spare time playing in her orchard, spending (not enough) time with her family, working as program chair for the 2007 Information Architecture Summit, and writing a book on card sorting to be published by Rosenfeld Media sometime in 2007.