Amanda Mander
Founder of Zarzara, Christchurch
Amanda helps companies make their products usable and desireable. She started her career at Apple Computer 15 years ago in their Advanced Technology Group. While at Apple she worked on the interaction design for many different emerging technologies such as multimedia kiosks, touchscreens, speech recognition and gesture input. She went on to form her consulting business, Zanzara, which has helped many different types of technology companies make their products easier to use and therefore more successful in the marketplace. Her clients have included IBM, Boeing, Yahoo!, George Lucas Films, Netscape, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, PalmOne, Xerox, Motorola, Kodak and many start ups. Technology products that she has worked on range from educational software to complicated IP address databases to PDAs and digital cameras. She has sat next to thousands of users of technology, has published many articles on usability and interaction design and has even addressed the United Nations on the subject. She holds 5 US design patents and currently continues Zanzara in Christchurch where she lives with her kiwi husband, Richard, their four children, two cats and one goldfish.
Bios
Sven Baker (DesignWorks)
Stephen Cicala
Monika Conway (Chalk)
DEVILROBOTS
Tom Eslinger (Saatchi)
Fraser Gardyne (DINZ)
Derek Lockwood (Saatchi)
Amanda Mander (Zarzara)
Mark Murphy (Murphy Design)
Carsten Schwesig (Sony)
Rex Turnbull (Lino)
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