Amir Khella, Principal
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Amir is a User Experience Guru who’s been designing and launching products for the past 10 years.
After getting his Computer Science degree in 1999, he started creating application for several software giants including Microsoft, Adobe and Corel. In 2001, Amir joined the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, where he studied and developed various information visualization tools and mobile interfaces. In 2004, he started working with Microsoft Research on projects related to software visualizations for program comprehension by integrating social recommendation systems into development environments. Later that year, he accepted an offer from Microsoft to join the Expression teams as a program manager. Amir stayed with Microsoft for 3.5 years, working on designing user experiences for desktop and web applications. In 2007, he left Microsoft and started Fictiv with the mission to enable innovation through design thinking and agile user experience. Since then, he’s helped several companies define, design, and launch their products. Amir holds a Master’s degree in Human Computer Interaction, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He blogs at www.amirkhella.com. |
Partners
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OpenCraft builds applications using modern open source tools such as the award-winning Drupal content management system. OpenCraft provides analysis, implementation, integration,internationalization and support services to deliver robust and long-lived solutions. OpenCraft clients include Intel, Microsoft, Reuters and PriceWaterHouseCoopers. |
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eSpace is one of the leading Ruby on Rails development houses. They started in 2000 with a group of enthusiastic computer science graduates and has strongly over the past 10 years. eSpace are frequent speakers at Rails conferences, and they recently started an iPhone development department where they create robust, high quality applications at a competitive price.
eSpace clients include Google, Vodafone, Yamli and Texas A&M University. |