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Experience Knights

Those who fight for a bigger vision

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UX Knights

Every year, the World Usability Congress board honors outstanding UX Professionals with the title: UX Experience Knight.

Experience Knights are recognized global leaders and UX visionaries who:

⚔ Network with the community of designers and UX specialists.
⚔ Participate in furthering UX education
⚔ Contribute to UX solutions with new ideas and research.
⚔ Promote the importance of UX solutions to new industries.
⚔ Interact with fellow associates of conferences.
⚔ Communicate the virtues of UX with clarity and conviction.
⚔ Live a deep bond to the WUC Family
Knight’s will be honored at the World Usability Congress every year in October.
You have to be proposed by a knight to come into a long list for new knights. Knight’s will
discuss and vote – depending on the requirements above, who will become an experience knight.

All Honored Experience Knights

Hannes Robier

Managing Director

CEO- Youspi Consulting GmbH View Details

Hannes Robier

Managing Director

What drives you?
Creating something new

How did you get there?
I try out all my ideas. If they don't work after the third iteration or try, I kill this ideas.

What are you fighting for?
For more together instead of against each other!

Joe Lanzisero

Creative Consultant

Lanzisero Creative View Details

Joe Lanzisero

Creative Consultant

What drives you?
The desire to make the world a better place.

How did you get there?
Curiosity.

What are you fighting for?
Bringing art, beauty, simplicity and calm into all UX.

Jennifer Romano

UX Research Lead and Strategist

Google View Details

Jennifer Romano

UX Research Lead and Strategist

What drives you?
Empowering others to excel and achieve their goals

How did you get there?
I had great mentors and cheerleaders along the way. I feel very lucky and humble and want to give to others in return. I recognize we seldom “get there” alone, and that “there” changes. I’d like to help others realize this and move forward.

What are you fighting for?
Financial freedom, while carving out a very much needed area (stellar UX Research training) that I’m passionate about, during a time when UX’ers are nervous about the future. It’s a hard time to ask people to invest in themselves and trust that the field continues to grow and evolve. But it is growing and evolving, and I’m proud to help others succeed.

Hanna Köhler

Chapter/People Lead User Experience

Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH View Details

Hanna Köhler

Chapter/People Lead User Experience

What drives you?
Insatiable curiosity and the wish to change things towards the better, no matter how small or large.

How did you get there?
Believing in the good of people and never giving up!

What are you fighting for?
Right now: for all the wonderful people in my teams. In general: see first answer.

Clemens Lutsch

Managing Partner

Swohlwahr GmbH & Co KG View Details

Clemens Lutsch

Managing Partner

What drives me:
make Systems and organizations focus on the human and not only on Business, advocate ethical work and decision making, promoting sustainability as part of fundamental user Needs, a holistic understandin of human-centered strategies and design

How did i get there:
very early on in the 90ies you had to forge alliances when working in software-ergonomics/Usability.. and this resulted in the understanding that a holistic Approach to human-centered design and Usability is essential. The emancipation of that field, the tearing down of Silos, the strategic approach… being very often the Ambassador / the initial Evangelist for UX, I had to push for this and educate the nature of the field, which is quite diverse.

What i am fighting for:
the professionalism of our field of work, sound education and the code of Conduct of UX Professionals!

Russ Wilson

Head of Design

Fidelity Investments View Details

Russ Wilson

Head of Design

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary

Klaus Hofer

Founder und Chief

Science Officer, CEO USABILITY MAPPING Inc View Details

Klaus Hofer

Founder und Chief

What drives you?
The mystery of how humans decide to act and do things.

How did you get there?
A tragic event, caused by brilliant people who thought they had done their best, led me onto this life long research mission.

What are you fighting for?
To make people aware that the laws of nature (cognition and behaviour) will operate regardless of what expert opinions might suggest. The laws of nature cannot be fooled.

Ben Anyasodo

Research Consultant/User

Experience Expert View Details

Ben Anyasodo

Research Consultant/User

What drives you?
A sense of adventure. The constant question in my mind is "what if..."

How did you get there?
Through adventure and daring to explore things differently where and when I can

What are you fighting for?
For people to explore a bit more and enjoy some adventure every now and then 🙂🙂

Ramy Nassar

AI + strategic foresight - author | facilitator | speaker | board director

View Details

Ramy Nassar

AI + strategic foresight - author | facilitator | speaker | board director

What drives you?
Learning new things

How did you get there?
Trying never to accept the first answer I’m told

What are you fighting for?
A world that my little ones can be happy to grow up in

Knight of Honor - Sascha Wolter

AI & HMI/UX

Deutsche Bahn View Details

Knight of Honor - Sascha Wolter

AI & HMI/UX

What drives you?
The question of why.

How did you get there?
Working out the what and how.

What are you fighting for?
Empowering people.

Vandhana Bhaskaran

Experience Design & Innovation Executive

Ford Motor Company View Details

Vandhana Bhaskaran

Experience Design & Innovation Executive

What drives you?
I am driven by the resilience and determination of individuals who face adversity but still manage to find their way to success. Their stories motivate me to make a difference in any way I can and give back for the opportunities that I have had - be it leading a team, helping people with their careers or simply pushing the boundaries of what I do and my own limitations.

How did you get there
I have been blessed with incredible individuals who saw more potential in me than I could see in myself. They placed their trust in me by offering opportunities that felt very challenging at that point in time. Despite facing numerous setbacks and failures, I have continued to push forward and bettering my craft, learning valuable lessons along the way, growing in wisdom and experience reaching the point where I am today.

What are you fighting for ?
Still (hopefully not a surprise) fighting for integrated experiences. Having worked in large organizations I still see designers, product teams and executives failing to take a holistic view of important topics like ethical design, trust or even thinking systemically beyond the products or features that they own/are tasked with.

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— It's the highes honor to be one of the

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UX Knights

Every year, the World Usability Congress board honors outstanding UX Professionals with the title: UX Experience Knight.

All Honored Experience Knights

Hannes Robier

Joe Lanzisero

Jennifer Romano

Hanna Köhler

Clemens Lutsch

Russ Wilson

Klaus Hofer

Ben Anyasodo

Ramy Nassar

Knight of Honor - Sascha Wolter

Vandhana Bhaskaran

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