Internationally renowned Interface Designer (Yahoo!, Interval Research Corporation, Apple) (San Francisco)

S. Joy Mountford has been designing and managing interface design efforts for over 25 years. Currently she is an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium, where she is working on data visualisations for the new Exploratorium Pier building.

Her experience encompasses a range of innovative and pioneering interface developments on various user systems, including airplanes, PCs, toys, consumer electronics and the Internet. At Yahoo! she was recently V.P. of User Experience and Design and was invited to start an Innovation Team in San Francisco. Her responsibilities included managing UED for Front Doors, where Y! front page is the most visited page on the Internet, and the popular Yahoo Mail, Messenger, Photos, Groups and 360. At Interval Research Corporation she led a series of musical development projects both in hardware and software for musicians and non-musicians to jam. She was the creator and manager of the highly-acclaimed Human Interface Group at Apple Computer for nearly eight years. Joy has worked at MCC, an A.I. computer consortium, and she designed advanced user interfaces for military avionics systems at Honeywell. She started and is still managing the highly leveraged University Design Expo with multiple sponsors, which has now been running for over 20 years. Its legacy members hold influential positions across many design industries.