PROFILE:

Mike Kuniavsky
Mike Kuniavsky is a user experience designer, researcher, and author. A twenty-year veteran of digital product development, Mike designs products, business processes, and services at the leading edge of technological change.
Prior to joining PARC, he co-founded several successful user experience centered companies, including ThingM, which designs and manufactures ubiquitous computing and Internet of Things products, and Adaptive Path, a well-known design consultancy. He specializes in multi-device interactions, cloud-based service design, and design of hardware products connected to cloud-based services. His background includes design for social analytics, consumer electronics, appliances, image retrieval, RGB LEDs, and financial services.
He has worked with some of the world's top technology companies, such as Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Whirlpool, and Qualcomm, to design new products, guide product strategy, and create user-centered design and development cultures.
He is the author of "Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research" and "Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design" both of which are used as standard university textbooks. He received a dual major B.S./B.A. in Computer Science and Film/Video Studies from the University of Michigan.
He lives in San Francisco with his family and loves new music.
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2012
Observing the User Experience: a Practitioner's Guide to User Research (second edition)
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (Elsevier)
2012
2010
Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (Elsevier)
2010
2006
Whirlpool Corporation
2003
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (Elsevier)
2003
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in the news
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Ideas to Implementation: PARC Earns Our Editor’s Retail Choice Award for Innovation in Smart Packaging Technology
9 November 2017 | Deal Crunch
What Does it Mean When Your Home is Watching You? (podcast)
21 October 2017 | Science Island
Rise of the Machines: Who is the “Internet of Things” Good For?
6 June 2017 | The Guardian
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The Future of Electronics
14 November 2017 | San Francisco, CA
The UX of Predictive Behavior for the Internet of Things
25 April 2017
Designing the UX of Machine Learning Systems
29 March 2017