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Aynne Valencia
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  • San Francisco, CA
  • United States
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Started Feb. 18, 2009

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Aynne Valencia

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Co-Local Leader SF IxDA. Product Design Director
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Co-Local Leader SF IxDA. Product Design Director
Specialties or Areas of Interest
Gestural, Touch interface design, mobile design
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http://www.avalen.com
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http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_details.asp?individual_id...

create opportunities for people to interact with each other, instead of their stuff

Aynne has over 11 years digital design experience. Most recently she has been Digital Product Design Director at an ad agency in San Francisco. Her experience includes: User Experience Design at Yahoo! and Lead Product Designer at Microsoft. Before turning her attention to interaction design, she was an Art Director and Graphic Designer. She is an advocate for contextual, collaborative design and employ user-centric process methodologies. She had 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.

Aynne specializes in creating next-gen products that center around social interactions and mobility and has designed interfaces for multi-touch screens, websites, mobile devices and software. In addition to her fulltime work, she actively contribute to the user experience community through speaking engagements, panels and reviewing papers for conferences and is currently serving as Co-Local Leader along with Josh Damon-Williams for the San Francisco Chapter of the Interaction Designers Association (IxDA).

Outside of work, Aynne can be found around town with her little terrier Pavina, writing horror stories, making short films and hiking and she is an intrepid traveler.

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At 12:34pm on October 28, 2009, Joshua Kaufman gave Aynne Valencia a gift
Great job with the IxDA October Event at The Armory!
At 12:15pm on October 27, 2009, Sam Shoulders said…
Hi Aynne,

Are we allowed to bring guest to this event? I would like to bring a date with me.
At 11:36am on October 14, 2009, IxDA San Francisco said…
you are aces!
At 11:51pm on April 14, 2009, Joshua Kaufman said…
Hey nice work with the protofarm banner. Looks fantastic!
 
 

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