Annie Fang

Community User Advocate

Annie was born and raised in sunny Southern California. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BS degree in Cognitive Science (HCI). Upon graduation, she worked as a user experience designer for 2 years at an interactive agency where she was challenged to learn and apply user-centered design principles. As a user experience designer, Annie defined and created interactive systems based on user research, industry best practices, and business requirements. She is currently attending the University of Michigan, School of Information pursuing a Master of Science in Information specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. In her free time she enjoys shooting portrait photography.

Adrienne Klum

Community Designer

Adrienne spent the first six years of her life in Seattle, Washington, where she gained a love and an appreciation for the beautiful outdoors. She then moved to Michigan, where she would spend the majority of her adolescence sailing, skiing, hiking, exploring and soaking up the Michigan sun (when it comes out). Adrienne has a BFA from the University of Michigan in Graphic Design. Following graduation she started a graphic and web design business, Citronade Design. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Information with a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan. Adrienne loves design that is intuitive and empowers the user.

Katie McCurdy

Community Strategist

Katie McCurdy is in her second and final year of the Human-Computer Interaction graduate program at the University of Michigan School of Information.  She came to school with a background in web and taxonomy design, and she’s always been a bit crafty.  She worked last summer as an interaction designer at VMware and designed a mobile application to enable IT administrators to manage and monitor their virtual machine infrastructure.  Her interests range from motivating online community collaboration to creating effective, user-centered UI designs and documentation; see more about katie at www.katiemccurdy.com

Eric Mrak

Community Technologist

Eric Mrak was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Throughout these years he tried virtually every sport available to a growing boy with soccer being his all-time favorite.  After high school he started college in Davis, California and immediately discovered several truths: 1) it is OK to walk barefoot in the grass as there are no ticks or chiggers as there are in Arknasas, 2) the word “hella” is to be used as an adverb and not as an adjective, 3) abstract mathematics is not what he wanted to study after all and 4) that he missed the unpredictable weather back home.  He finished his undergraduate degree in computer science and proceeded straight to graduate school at the University of Michigan.  He is now a second-semester student specializing in human-computer interaction.