Maggie Hendrie

User experience pioneer Maggie Hendrie is the dean of the Division of Media and Technology and former chair of the undergraduate Interaction Design Department at ArtCenter, the first Southern California school to offer such a degree. As chair, she helped organize the Data to Discovery symposium and ongoing program with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, bringing computer science and design students together with researchers and engineers to develop interactive visualization tools.

Hendrie has more than 20 years of experience in new interactive product/service strategy, digital product design, project management, user-centered design, and usability and user experience testing. In 2004, she founded Sony Pictures Entertainment’s User Experience Competency Center and, as director, was responsible for working with divisions worldwide to integrate usability, information architecture and interaction into Sony devices and cross-platform projects. Prior, she was creative director for user experience at Whittman-Hart/MarchFirst, director of client solutions at Caresoft, strategy director at Manifest Digital and senior user interface designer at CyberMedia. In addition, Hendrie consults for numerous clients, including venture capital investors, Toyota, Kaiser Permanente and Accenture.