People

Duane Degler / IPGems

Duane is one of those creative minds that just keeps finding new things and new ways to improve performance...

Interview with Carla O'Dell

eBusiness Forum: What you need to focus on is how can knowledge leveraging, principles, tools and so on be used to support another business process that is of high commercial value. Stage one is to say, “OK, we ought to look for some other people who also think that this company or this organisation could be more effective if we leveraged certain kinds of knowledge better.” (2000-12-03)

Alan Cooper

Alan Cooper, the designer of Visual Basic, is a man with a mission. Outraged by the inferior and unusable products that are constantly forced upon long-suffering software users, Alan decided to do something about the problem....

Douglas Englebart

Many people mistakenly believe that the mouse was invented by Apple. Others believe that Steve Jobs stole the idea from Xerox, where the mouse was used on an early office PC called the Star. But in truth, the mouse was first conceived of by Doug Engelbart in the early 1960’s, then a scientist at the Stanford Research Institute, in Menlo Park, California. His pioneering work with the mouse and the outline viewer (hierarchical browser) paved the way for the modern era of literary computing.

Gloria Gery

Gloria Gery coined the phase "Electronic Performance Support System" in the late 1980s. Her thought provoking book by the same name (1991) sparked a movement that synthesizes user-centered design, usability, information architecture and more, toward a design for computer-mediated work environments that ensures business performance through human performance.

Tony O'Driscoll

Tony O'Driscoll is Lead Learning Strategist with IBM's Center for Advanced Learning. He is responsible for advancing IBM's thought leadership in formal and informal learning through research, theory and methodology development, application and education...

Craig Marion

Craig Marion is the author of several articles on performance support and provides resources through his web site, Software Design Smorgasbord.

Stan Malcolm, Ph.D.

Stan Malcolm is thought leader on corporate learning and performance support. His articles and resources are made available through his Performance Vision web site. In addition, Stan is an award winning digital photographer.

Theodor Holm Nelson

Ted Nelson is responsible for the term "hypertext" because of his insightful work that began in the 1960s and continues to this day. A colorful figure, he will tell you "THIS ISN'T IT" in reference to the World Wide Web and what he had in mind. The Xanadu project is legendary. Peruse the following rich set of resources that are essential elements of PCD.

Donald A. Norman

Don Norman is the guru of modern human centered design. His expertise is in understanding the relationship between people and technology: the social and human components of design, experience, and everyday life...