Jesse James Garrett
Jesse James Garrett is a User Experience Designer based in San Francisco, California and co-founder of the Adaptive Path strategy and design consulting firm.<ref name="ha2014">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His diagram titled The Elements of User Experience launched his popularity in the web design community in early 2000, which was later published as a book.<ref>The Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garret, 30 March 2000</ref> In a 2005 paper,<ref name="garrett" /> Garrett coined the term Ajax to describe the asynchronous technology behind emerging services like Google Maps and Google Suggest, as well as the resulting user experience which made it possible to browse without interruption by eliminating the reloading of the whole page.<ref name="shower">Template:Cite news</ref>
Biography
Jesse James Garrett co-founded Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design firm in 2001, and co-founded the Information Architecture Institute.<ref name="ha2014" /><ref name="pwebio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His essays have appeared in New Architect,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Boxes and Arrows,<ref>Yahoo! Mail: Simplicity Holds Up Over Time - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Template:Webarchive</ref> and Digital Web Magazine.<ref>Digital Web Magazine – The Psychology of Navigation</ref> Jesse attended the University of Florida.
Garrett authored The Elements of User Experience, a conceptual model of user-centered design first published as a diagram in 2000 and later as a book in 2002. A second edition of the book was published in 2010.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Although originally intended for use in web design, the Elements model has since been adopted in other fields such as software development and industrial design.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also created the first<ref>The Visual Vocabulary Three Years Later: An Interview with Jesse James Garrett - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Template:Webarchive</ref> standardized notation for interaction design, known as the Visual Vocabulary.<ref>Jesse James Garrett: Visual Vocabulary for Information Architecture</ref>
Garrett's works include ia/recon,<ref>Jesse James Garrett: ia/recon</ref> an essay on the evolution of the information architecture field, and The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a conceptual model similar to Elements for team structures and processes. In his most well known endeavour, Garrett coined the term Ajax in February 2005 to describe the information behind asynchronous Javascript and XML.<ref name="garrett">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Although he was not the only one working on the development of this technology, Garrett thought of the term in the shower<ref name="shower"/> when he realized the need for a shorthand term to represent the suite of technologies he was proposing to a client.
In 2008, Garrett designed the Aurora<ref>adaptive path » aurora concept videoTemplate:Dead link</ref> concept for a future Web browser for the Mozilla Corporation. Garrett's closing keynote at the 2009 Information Architecture Summit (IA Summit 2009), known as the "Memphis Plenary"<ref>Jesse James Garrett: The Memphis Plenary</ref> created controversy and debate <ref>JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote | IxDA Template:Webarchive</ref> within the user experience community.
Garrett's project "iWitness" was one of the winners of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's 2011 Knight News Challenge media innovation competition.<ref>Knight Foundation media innovation contest announces 2011 winners Template:Webarchive</ref>
Awards
In May, 2006 Garrett was awarded Wired Magazine's Rave Award<ref>Wired Rave Awards</ref> in the field of technology.
Personal life
Garrett was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,<ref>as he revealed in a talk at UXcamp Ottawa 2013</ref> and grew up in Florida. He lived in Los Angeles for 5 years before moving to San Francisco in 1999.<ref name="jjg">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was married to Rebecca Blood from 2001 - 2014 and they have one child together.<ref name="jjg" />
Bibliography
- The Elements of User Experience