There are some pretty special companies in Waterloo Region that do world-class work, and that rely on fantastic UX teams to help shape their products. Christie is one of them — you may already know that their projectors power the presentations at Fluxible, and plenty of other places around the region and across the globe. We’re delighted to have snagged their UX leader for this year’s event.

A career in user experience was a given for Jennifer Pretti after she discovered something called “human factors” in an engineering course syllabus. She spent the next fifteen years leveraging her research and analytical skills to design user experience solutions for companies such as IBM, Nokia, and Vision Critical.

After making the move from Vancouver to Waterloo, Jennifer landed at BlackBerry, where she was the lead Interaction Designer for BlackBerry Messenger and guided its redesign for the first BB10 smartphones.

An opportunity then came along to build a UX team at Christie and bring user-centered design practices to the primarily engineering-driven organization. Three years later, she is managing a team of industrial, visual, and interaction designers, deploying holistic user experiences across digital and physical interfaces for Christie’s next-generation display solutions.

And, apparently, she’s also delivering presentations at UX fun-loving conferences. Lucky us!

Stay tuned for further announcements and details about Jennifer’s session at Fluxible.