Brandon Schauer

Brandon Schauer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. He speaks, writes, trains, and practices experience design as a differentiator for business strategy.

Professional Background

Brandon's passion for finding and understanding the unmet needs of customers has led him to diverse environments, from the homes of cancer patients to tunnels beneath Walt Disney World. This insight with customers -- plus a solid grounding in business analysis and a mastery of design methods -- allows Brandon to help organizations define and design more meaningful experiences for their customers.

Brandon has over a decade of experience developing new products, services, and user experiences for the web, desktop, and devices. He's keynoted, presented, and conducted workshops at such conferences at Business to Buttons, IA Summit, Designertopia, and UIE Web App Summit.

Past clients include American Cancer Society, Bank of New York, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan Bank, First Union Bank, Flickr, JetBlue, LeapFrog, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, morningstar, NYCE, and Vanguard Financial.

Brandon holds two master-level degrees from schools with the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received a Master of Design from the Institute of Design in Chicago where he studied the planning, development, and management of innovation. Concurrently, he graduated with a MBA from the Stuart School of Business. Brandon is a past editor for the Institute of Design's Perspectives on Design and Strategy, allowing him to pick-the-brains of leaders in the fields of innovation, design, and strategy.

He also has a love of Excel that is unnatural for a designer.

Past Appearances

February 5
Brandon Schauer will be keynoting Northwest Online 2010 at Oregon State University.

March 24
Brandon Schauer attended Green:Net in San Francisco.

February 5
Brandon Schauer attended Managing Design Projects in San Francisco.

November 16-18
Brandon Schauer presented at CanUX in Banff, Alberta.

October 13
Brandon Schauer lead the Design Strategy workshop at UX Intensive in Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 7
Brandon Schauer will be on the panel, Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA.

September 17-18
Brandon Schauer attended the DMI Seminar Creating Meaningful Brand Experiences and Producing Customer Happiness in Seattle, Washington.

August 12 - 15
Brandon Schauer presented at UX Week in San Francisco, CA

April 12 - 14
Brandon Schauer presented at IA Summit in Miami, FL.

Feb 19 - 22
Brandon Schauer presented at UXI in San Francisco, CA

Jan 30
Brandon Schauer presented at Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA

Jan 27 - 29
Brandon Schauer presented at VizThink in San Francisco, CA.

November 12-15, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at Adaptive Path's UX Intensive conference in Vancouver, BC.

October 21-23, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at Adaptive Path's MX East in Philadelphia, PA.

June 18-21, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at UX Intensive in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

June 14-15, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at From Business to Buttons in Malmö, Sweden.

February 12-13, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at MX San Francisco in San Francisco, CA.

February 2, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at WebDD Conference '07 in Berkshire, UK.

February 1-2, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at Designertopia in London, UK.

January 22-23, 2007
Brandon Schauer presented at UIE Web App Summit in Monterey, CA.

October 1-3, 2006
Brandon Schauer attended Spark UX in Half Moon Bay, CA.

August 14-17, 2006
Brandon Schauer spokeat User Experience Week 2006, Washington, D.C.

March 23-27, 2006
Brandon Schauer, IA Summit, Vancouver, BC Canada