McKay, Everett: - Everett McKay is Principal of UX Design Edge and a UX design trainer and consultant with global clientele. Everett's specialty is finding practical, intuitive, simple, highly usable solutions quickly for web, mobile, and desktop applications. Everett has over 30 years' experience in user interface design and has delivered UX design workshops to an international audience that includes Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. Everett is author of Intuitive Design: Eight Steps to an Intuitive Design, the definitive guide to designing intuitive interactions, and UI Is Communication: How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication, a groundbreaking approach to UI design using human communication-based principles and techniques. While at Microsoft, Everett wrote the Windows UX Guidelines for Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Everett holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from MIT.