Shane Morris (Melbourne, Australia)

Shane Morris is one of Australia’s most respected user experience professionals and founder of digital agency Automatic Studio. Through consulting, mentoring and training he has helped organisations create compelling digital experiences since 1991. In that time he has worked on desktop applications, internet applications, mobile user interfaces, physical devices and web sites. Shane has taught user experience topics around the world and is a key contributor to “101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School” at ixd101.com.

Multi-touch, Multi-user, Multi-challenge: How to Design Gestural User Interfaces.

Multi-touch user interfaces are moving off your phone and into computing devices, information displays and even the furniture. Designing multi-touch user interfaces presents its own challenges, but add to that multi-user and tangible UI considerations and you have the makings of an ‘interesting’ design challenge. Shane Morris will take us through considerations for designing gestural and tangible UI’s for devices, large format screens and augmented reality interfaces. Along the way he’ll use examples from his own work, including Australia’s first publically demonstrated Microsoft Surface application (for Lonely Planet) and Australia’s first deployed Surface application, for the ANZ bank. More...

Speaker Details

Shane has worked with companies like Microsoft, Lonely Planet, M&C Saatchi, Cochlear, Amnesia Razorfish and Sensis - helping creative and technical professionals collaborate to create services that empower, inspire and reward. His passion is transforming the complex and constrained into the simple and powerful. Not just because it's valuable endeavour, but because it's hard - and therefore immensely rewarding.

Shane's previous experience includes:
    •    One of Microsoft's first User Experience Evangelists world-wide.
    •    Director of Echo Interaction Design for 6 years.
    •    General Manager and Principal Consultant at The Hiser Group.