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| Summary: |
Scott Jenson has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for 20 years. He was the first member of the System Software Human Interface group at Apple in the late 80s, working on System 7 and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He then joined the Newton group as a programmer/designer. After Apple, Scott was a freelance design consultant, doing work for Netscape, Mayo Clinic, American Express, and several web startups. For 3 years, he was director of product design for Symbian. He managed Mobile UI design at Google for 4 years and is now working on strategic projects within Google.
As a battle scarred veteran of the software industry, Scott has shipped a spreadsheet, been a part of 2 Mac OS releases, 5 Newton product cycles, 4 commercial web site revisions, designed 2 completely different mobile phones, run dozens of usability trials and focus groups, and has >15 patents granted. |
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| Design: |
Google
2005 - Present UX design lead for Google Profiles. Previously managed mobile UX group, responsible for managing a team of 12 designers/researchers that worked on multiple platform versions for: Google Mobile Maps, Google Mobile Search, Mobile Gmail, Google Image Search and Google SMS. Also lead team to explore new product concepts using CSS3/HTML5. |
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Jenson Design
2003 - 2005 Design consulting specializing in mobile phones and consumer electronics. Worked on everything from mobile phone hearing aids for Starkey Labs to the Roomba vaccum cleaner. |
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Vice President of Product Design Cognmia LTD.
2001 - 2002 Product concept, strategy and design of next generation mobile services. Eventually shipped Shozu, a background photo uploading application for Symbian devices. |
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Director of Symbian DesignLab
1998 - 2001 Lead and coordinated dozens of design and research projects relating to mobile internet services within Symbian, including the Quartz reference platform (Sony/Ericsson P900) Managed 19 people to design, prototype, test, and specify future mobile wireless products. Oversaw a design team that has generated >20 patent applications, 10 academic/trade publications, and 5 external speaking engagements. |
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Founder Jenson Design
1997 - 1998 A consulting group which did human interface design. Customers included Netscape, Mayo Clinic, American Express, and Tango Communications. Projects include client server applications, internal web site design and usability studies. |
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Apple Newton Group
1992 - 1997 Designer/programmer for Apple Newton. Started on original concept device which included concept prototyping as well a development of Newton 1.0, 2.0 and eMate products. |
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1988 - 1992 Human interface manager within Apple Computer on projects such as QuickTime, FileShare, AppleMail, AppleScript, Publish & Subscribe and QuickDraw GX print architectures. |
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| Publications: |
HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That have Influenced the HCI Community
Chapter: Edward Tufte's 1+1=3 Ed: Thomas Erickson, MIT Press Dec 2007 Default Thinking, Future Products Chapter within The Inside Text: Social perspectives on SMS in the mobile age Ed: Richard Harper, Springer Verlag. Published 2005 The Simplicity Shift: Innovative Design Tactics in a Corporate World Cambridge University Press, published 2002 Apple Human Interface Guidelines Technical Advisor. Published 1992 |
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| Speeches: |
Keynote MobileHCI 2010 (in September) SXSW Mobile Panel 2010 SXSW Mobile Panel 2008 MobileHCI Singapore Sept 2007 HCI2020 March 2007 Stanford Feb 2007 BayCHI July 2006 Design Panel CHI2006 UPA2005 Keynote at Appliance Design 2004, Bristol UK Mobile Commerce World 2003 CHI2002, CHI2001 Mobile User Interface 2001 EuroForum 2000 |
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| Patents: |
10 Issued/10 Pending Newton applications, Macintosh Drag and Drop, Symbian Phone Concepts, Picsel Phone design |
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| Programming: | Designed, prototyped, and implemented Calendar, To Do List, Draw, and Spreadsheet applications for the Newton Personal Digital Assistant. All work done in C++ and NewtonScript. | |||
| Maintained and extended Newton application toolbox and view system. | ||||
| Designed and implemented PC-Host, a distributed version of the Common Lisp window standard, Common Windows. All work done in C and Common Lisp on IBM PC’s using MS-Windows. | ||||
| Incorporated three person software development firm to design, write and license integrated spreadsheet for Macintosh. The product, Quartet™, integrated text and graphics directly into the spreadsheet document. Responsible for the graphic design and human interface programming. The program shipped approximately 4,000 units. | ||||
| Work History: | ||||
| 2005-Present |
Google Mountain View, CA
Mobile UI Designer |
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| 2003-2005 |
Jenson Design Minneapolis, MN
President |
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| 2002-2003 |
Personal Sabbatical
One year travel with my family |
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| 2001-2002 |
Cognima LTD London, UK
Vice President Product Design |
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| 1998-2001 |
Symbian, Ltd, London, UK
Director of DesignLab |
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| 1997-1998 |
Jenson Design Minneapolis, MN
President |
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| 1988-1997 |
Apple Computer Cupertino, CA
Application Lead in Newton Group (5 years) Manager Macintosh System Software Human Interface (2 years) Senior Software Engineer (2 years) |
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| 1985-1988 |
Intellicorp Mountain View, CA
Senior Systems Engineer |
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| 1984-1985 |
Macintosh Business Applications, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA
Co-Founder |
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| Education: |
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA M.S. in Computer Science, June 1991. B.A. in Economics, June 1984. |
