Faculty Profiles
Liz Danzico : Chair, MFA Interaction Design
Liz Danzico is chair of the MFA in Interaction Design program.
With more than ten years of experience as a user experience professional, she makes information useful, usable, and delightful. She has organized information across a variety of industries, including retail, publishing, media and entertainment, nonprofit, and financial services. She does independent consulting in New York and is user experience consultant for Happy Cog Studios, on the editorial board for Rosenfeld Media, a publisher of user experience books, editor-in-chief for A Brief Message, 200 words or less about design, board member of AIGA/New York, and a former advisory board member of the Information Architecture Institute.
Liz has taught design at the New School University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. She’s been editor-in-chief for Boxes and Arrows and in the past, Liz directed experience strategy for AIGA, where she was responsible for the national web presence and all online and New Riders publications. Before that, she directed the information architecture teams at Barnes & Noble.com and Razorfish New York.
Events Directed: Co-chair, AIGA/NY Apple: Design Remixed; co-chair, AIGA/NY Smart Models: Business Principles for Design Principals; co-chair, AIGA/NY Fresh Dialogue 24: In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed
- Education
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BA, Pennsylvania State University; MA, Carnegie Mellon University
- Professional Experience
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User experience consultant, Happy Cog Studios; development editor, Rosenfeld Media; director of experience strategy, AIGA; user experience director, Daylife.com; managing editor, Voice: AIGA Journal of Design; information architecture manager, Razorfish, Barnes & Noble.com
- Publications
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Adobe ThinkTank; Becoming a Digital Designer; Boxes and Arrows; Business Week; DigitAll Magazine; Field-Tested Books; Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design; UX Matters; Voice: AIGA Journal of Design; editor in chief, A Brief Message.com
- On the Web
