Speaker Bio

Kevin Cheng

By day, Kevin is a senior interaction designer with Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Local. By night, he is the co‐creator of OK/Cancel, believed to be one of the top five web comics on usability and design. At Yahoo!, Kevin combined his experiences and introduced the use of comics for conveying new product ideas and concepts. Previous to Yahoo!, he worked as a senior human‐computer interaction consultant at Trilogy for clients such as Sun Microsystems, British Airways, SGI, and Principal Financial Group and also contracted with Adaptive Path.

Kevin holds a Masters degree from University College London in Human Computer Interaction and Ergonomics and has presented at SIGCHI, UXNet London, Hong Kong UPA and will also be speaking at this year’s South by Southwest (SxSW). His work in communicating interaction design issues through comics has appeared in numerous textbooks as well as the bimonthly Interactions magazine.