Bill DeRouchey

This is the first in our speaker announcement series for Fluxible 2014. Stay tuned in the upcoming weeks to find out which other awesome speakers will be joining us this year!

His richly diverse life reads like a series of great one liners: the son of a pilot, his career was bound to take off; when he has one, his beard can really grow on you; aimed at teens, his middle-aged white guy punk cover band does Adele-scents

(We could go on, but we'll save it for the conference!)

This year, Fluxible has landed one of the design giants of our time. Bill DeRouchey (@billder) has been shaping, framing and distilling information for over 20 years, as creative director, product manager, interaction designer, interaction architect, writer, and so on. He is currently GE's UX Studio Lead for Aviation projects, having worked at both Simple and Ziba Design previously.

Oh, yeah - did we mention he's also been an IxDA director, co-chairing the much-loved Interaction10?

And yet, more than any of these technical projects, Bill still finds people the most fascinating of all. That means, you shouldn't hesitate to introduce yourself and strike up a conversation when you see him at Fluxible this year!

This multi-talented man will bring fun and expertise to this year's conference. (And we're hoping he'll bring his ukulele along, too!)