About: User experience designer, information designer, technologist, writer.

Maria Cordell is an accomplished information architect with extensive experience in interaction and user interface design, information design, experience strategy, and content strategy. She applies user-centered design principles to all phases of information and user experience design for applications and the Web.

Maria's background in experience strategy and design dates to the beginning on the Internet as a commercial medium, and includes both in-house and agency-based software product design and development. She has led and produced numerous successful enterprise and Web design projects for companies in telecommunications, industrial wireless data transmission, retail sales, terminal server optimization, and optical physics.

To her professional user experience work Maria adds a comprehensive portfolio of technology articles and white papers. She has been a contributing author and technical editor on a number of computing and networking books for McGraw-Hill and Ziff-Davis Publications. Her most recent contribution appears in Les Freed's PC Magazine Guide to Home Networking.

Maria holds an MS in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2005), and a BS in Physics with High Honor, also from Georgia Tech.

Professional Affiliations:
CHI*Atlanta
IxDA
IAI
IEEE