Aaron Oppenheimer

I swing back and forth on the "engineer"-> "designer"->"engineer"-> "designer" pendulum enough to feel a little queasy about it. I have worked for huge companies and small companies, corporate and consulting, software and houseware, and now work at a biotech startup in the VP-in-charge-of-everything role, developing a product that will help people who really need it.

Christine Costello

I think it all started on family car trips long ago. As we sped by, I loved looking in the windows of people's homes, lights just coming on, to see what they were doing. Haven't changed much. Still an avid eavesdropper and love to watch people anywhere. Currently thinking about the value of digital ethnography and social influence research among other things.

Fred Murrell

Hugh Dubberly

John Cain

trainee in lots of fields

Jon Campbell

Jon rides a '07 Harley-Davidson Road King and reads anything he can get his hands on.

Katie W McGlenn

Despite her state’s first lady proclaiming otherwise, Katie realizes that after 10+ years of reading kids books – she has NOT learned everything she needs to know. She looks forward to learning from Pulp and the smart grown ups contributing to it. She freelances, works on independent projects (like “cabin fever”), and seeks direction for what’s next.

Maria Bezaitis

My early background is academic, but this gets farther away every day! I love language and believe that fiction is one of the best future-telling genre available.

Melissa Cefkin

Melissa has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and her moon sign and five planets in Capricorn. Ergo, Melissa Cefkin is left trying to balance her commitment to relativism as a mode of inquiry and its appeal to emergent and situated realities with her pleasure at putting things in boxes and making order out of them. She knows French, Turkish and Persian and a thing or two about doing applied ethnographic research in government and industry settings.

Nina Wakeford

Nina Wakeford is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also director of INCITE www.studioincite.com which she founded, in part, after conversations with Rick Robinson in the back of a limo heading back to SFO after a conference organised by Lucy Suchman at PARC in 1999

Jeremy Yuille

Rick E Robinson

rick e robinson started pulp because he works much better when he gets holes poked in his arguments and has to think through lots of answers to good questions. There is an awful lot of my thinking in the introductory documents for this site. Runs right up to the edge of "too much information" probably. But the important bits are that I have a deep and personal interest in seeing the field develop, and decided that it needed a place to do that in slightly different ways than it does in work for hire or conferences. i have my fingers crossed.

Ruth Schmidt

Ruth combines an academic background in semiotics, communication design theory, and design planning with long experience in information architecture, the e-learning biz, and a general inability to cultivate interests her parents can easily explain to their friends without the help of crib notes. Now at Doblin and an adjunct faculty at ID, and bashfully proud to have designed the initial IA for pulp.

Ryan Brotman

Ryan Brotman currently studies design research as a Ph.D student with Arizona State University (ASU). He currently focuses on new media systems for health, civic action and well being with the Motivational Environments research group. Ryan has studied/worked at North Carolina State University's College of Design, MIT's Media Lab and Arizona State University's Institute for Design and Art on various sundry design research projects for health, well being and civic technologies.

Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that brings together user research, design and business strategy. Portigal Consulting helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. In addition to regularly speaking at design and marketing events, Steve has taught Design Research at the California College of Art and the Involution Master Academy. He writes regularly for interactions magazine, Core77 and the Portigal Consulting blog, All This ChittahChattah (http://www.portigal.com/blog ). Steve is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Grocery Products in his home.

Tony Salvador

I'm not good at sitting still.