ideacodes

Emily Chang, Co-founder

Emily Chang is an award-winning web and interaction designer, technology strategist and co-founder and principal of Ideacodes.  She writes about web and user experience design, technology, and next generation web at EmilyChang.com, and is the creator of the popular web and technology resource, eHub and eHub Interviews. 

For the past eleven years, Emily has designed and produced hundreds of websites and web products for technology start-ups, businesses, leading universities and colleges, blog companies, non-profits, art and media and organizations as diverse as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, GigaOM, the Stylehive, Six Apart, Hewlett Packard and the Sierra Club. Her expertise ranges from strategy to design to user experience for social web applications, web communities, hybrid media sites, personalized portals and content management systems, to social software and blogs.

Emily is on the design jury for the 2008 Adobe Achievement Awards, serves as an advisory member of the Web 2.0 Expo committee, was an invited panelist at the SXSW Interactive conference in 2007, and is an invited member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, Ajax Developer’s Journal and Corante Web Hub.  Her internet work has garnered dozens of design and interactive awards, including a SXSW finalist award, two prestigious Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) grand gold awards in interactive media, IBM Best Practices Partner for a portal to serve university students, and Web Marketing Association’s Best University website.

Prior to co-founding Ideacodes, Emily was a partner and creative director in a marketing communications firm, a web director at Cornell University, an independent design consultant, and senior designer for the University at Buffalo web team, a leading electronic media and marketing unit in higher education. 

She has an M.F.A. in sculpture from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a B.A. in literature from the College of William and Mary. As an artist, she has shown digital videos at numerous online venues and exhibited sculpture and installations in galleries in New York. Having traveled and lived extensively around the world (North America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe), Emily currently lives and works in the SOMA district in downtown San Francisco. 

You can also find her online at her blogs, emilychang.com, eHub, PicoCool and artcodes.com.

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