Brad Weed

Brad Weed is the director of user experience design and research for the Windows and Windows Live product line at Microsoft. Prior to Windows he was the user experience manager for Microsoft Office. His contributing work on Office 2007 is widely recognized as one of the biggest paradigm shifts in the history of the industry. In 2003, Weed received the IDSA IDEA Gold Award; Microsoft's first IDSA award for software design. With more than 16 years at Microsoft, he has been instrumental in shaping the role of design at Microsoft and in the industry.

He has also been instrumental in advancing the software interaction design education in schools around the world, most recently as a Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before joining Microsoft in 1992, he worked as a user interface designer and engineer for Wavefront Technologies in Santa Barbara, combining his passion for information design, computer graphics and socio-behavioral geography.

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