Since founding Spirit Softworks, Principal User Experience Architect Pabini Gabriel-Petit has been a prolific contributor to publications about user experience strategy and design.

May + June 2005 Interactions

Pabini was Guest Editor for the May + June 2005 issue of Interactions. In addition to contributing the title article for the special section “Whose Profession Is It Anyway,” she solicited contributions from and edited 12 articles by prominent members of the UX community, including

• “Who Owns UX? Not Us!”—by Dirk Knemeyer
• “Building Positive Team Relationships for Better Usability”—by John C. Ferrara
• “The Vision of Good User Experience”—by David Hawdale
• “User Experience: Back to Business”—by Peter Bogaards and Ruurd Priester
• “Making UX an Engaging Process for Prospective User Experience Adopters”—by Bob Goodman
• “Design Management”—by Jeremy Ashley and Kristin Desmond
• “Why Engineers Own User Experience Design”—by Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini
• “Defining Interaction Design”—by Elizabeth Bacon
• “The Adaptive User Experience Organization”—by Victor Lombardi
• “STC and User Experience”—by Fred Sampson
• “Engineering UX: The Usability Professionals’ Association”—by Whitney Quesenbery and Paul Sherman
• “User Experience Network: A Passion for Collaboration”—by the UXnet Executive Council

UXmatters :: Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community

Pabini is the Founder, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of UXmatters, a Web magazine created by and for user experience (UX) professionals. Launched on November 3rd, 2005, in conjunction with the first World Usability Day, UXmatters continues to deliver high -quality columns and articles on UX strategy and design, as well as reviews of books on UX topics and conferences for UX professionals. Read more 

Articles by Pabini Gabriel-Petit

Pabini has written numerous articles, including feature articles about UX strategy and design topics, conference reviews, and book reviews. Read more