Two greatly gifted user experience professionals are contributing their time and talent to Happy Cog.

A veteran strategist and instructor, user experience director Kevin Hoffman creates compelling online experiences via patient research and sparkling creative insight. Prior to joining Happy Cog, he spent more than a decade building sites, developing strategies, and leading projects for colleges and universities in Baltimore. Kevin joins our Philadelphia office; we are thrilled to have him.

Co-inventor of a patented search tool for American Express, user experience consultant Whitney Hess has a bachelor’s in writing, a master’s in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon, and ten years’ experience making complex sites work beautifully. Her work for the New York office of Happy Cog will soon bear public fruit; we are delighted to have her on our team.

Welcome, Kevin and Whitney.

Tags: Whitney Hess, Kevin Hoffman, UX, userexperience, happycog, talent

Filed under: Happy Cog™, Information architecture, New York City, Philadelphia, UX, User Experience, Working, experience, people, work

8 Responses to “Cognition”

1. 
   Rob Hunter said on 19 November 2008 at 3:46 pm:

   Congrats Whitney! It was a pleasure to work with you!

2. 
   Whitney Hess said on 19 November 2008 at 3:57 pm:

   This is quite an honor. Thank you so much. I hope to make you proud!

3. Happy Cog adds UX Professionals to the Lineup | Donovan Watts said on 19 November 2008 at 8:53 pm:

   [...] Zeldman of Happy Cog makes amazing websites. His team is the best of the best and now he’s added two user experience professionals to the [...]

4. 
   Erik said on 19 November 2008 at 9:24 pm:

   Congratulations to all involved! (Say, have you given any thought to establishing Happy Cog Chicago? ;)

5. 
   Matt Robin said on 20 November 2008 at 11:40 am:

   Well done to Happy Cog, Kevin and Whitney :)

6. 
   Gail D. said on 21 November 2008 at 2:50 pm:

   WooHoo for Kevin and Whitney! By the way, their thumbnail photos are linking to a secure server …

7. 
   mmcglynn said on 25 November 2008 at 9:25 am:

   “working with”? not hired?

8. 
   Richard Senior said on 26 November 2008 at 4:40 pm:

   Wow, what a team you have collected Jeffrey!

   If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

   Congrats!