Aynne Valencia
Aynne Valencia is Digital Product Design Director at AKQA, San Francisco. Aynne has over 11 years digital design experience. Before joining AKQA, her experience included: User Experience Design at Yahoo! and Lead Product Designer at Microsoft. Before turning her attention to interaction design, Aynne was an Art Director and Graphic Designer.
She is an advocate for contextual, collaborative design and employs user-centric process methodologies. She has lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver simple, elegant and innovative solutions for her clients. She has crafted breakthrough, award winning cross-platform experiences such as mobile sites and alternate reality games. She specializes in creating next-gen products that center around social interactions and mobility. She has designed interfaces for multi-touch screens, websites, mobile devices and software.
In addition to her work at AKQA, Aynne actively contributes to the user experience community through speaking engagements, panels and reviewing papers for conferences and is currently serving as Local Leader for the San Francisco Chapter of the Interaction Designers Association (IxDA).
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