Coburn Hawk Amara Huslander

Coburn Hawk is the director of product design for NBCUniversal and has been a veteran of the UX industry for fourteen years. Coburn said that empathy, attention to detail, and passion are some of the most important traits a UX designer can have. Coburn then elaborated, “Empathy, remember that you are designing for humans. The more empathy the better the design, think about what is important to them.”

Amara Huslander is a lecturer at CU Denver and a Sr. UX designer at Amazon. When interviewing Amara, she highly focused on making sure that users a feel sense of progress when using gamification. As well as the many different ways of gaming can be defined.