Johnny Holland is an open collective of creatives who want to share and learn from each other. Everybody who wants to share something about the interactions of experience design is invited to join. Below you find a list of all the Johnnies that are currently involved.

Join the collective or feel an outcast forever: do it now.

Johnny’s kahunas

Without the kahunas this would be an empty black hole. They are the brains behind the operation, or… at least they think they are.

Chief Kahuna
Jeroen van Geel (LinkedIn)
Jeroen van Geel is founder and chief kahuna of Johnny Holland. He works as a senior interaction designer at Fabrique Communication & Design and has perfected the art of asking ‘Why?’

Kahuna
Steve Baty (LinkedIn)
Steve Baty solves problems. Usually for businesses; often Government and not-for-profits. He is a User Experience strategist with over a decade of commercial experience, and holds two Masters degrees (eCommerce and MBA) and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics. Steve is an organizer of the UX Australia conference and UX Book Club.

Kahuna
Vicky Teinaki (LinkedIn)
Vicky Teinaki is a product/interaction designer working in Auckland, New Zealand. She recently completed a Master of Design that looked at the use of physicality in mobile phone interfaces.

Johnny’s dudes

The dudes are the people responsible for specific sections of Johnny Holland. Without them this place would be a mess.

Radio Johnny
Jeff Parks (LinkedIn)
Jeff actively collaborates with industry professionals from around the world through his involvement with Boxes and Arrows, Interaction Design Association, CapCHI, and is aiding in the creation of the UX Workshop.

Johnny TV dude
Martin Polley (LinkedIn)
Martin Polley is a tech writer and interaction designer working at Intel in Israel. He blogs sporadically at capcloud.com. You can follow him on twitter @martinpolley.

Super dude
Niklas Wolkert (LinkedIn)
Niklas Wolkert is an interaction designer from UID working at Ergonomidesign designing user experiences for small screen mobile devices, embedded systems, web sites to large scale multi-touch systems.

Johnny’s rock stars

Meet our rockstars. These are the people responsible for all the brilliant content that you are reading and watching every week. They bring love and joy to this world, but mainly a lot of sweat for the dudes and kahunas.

Stephen Anderson (LinkedIn)
Stephen P. Anderson is an independent consultant based out of Dallas, Texas. He spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about user experience design and intrapreneurial teams—topics he loves to speak about.

Chris Avore (LinkedIn)
Chris Avore is a user experience consultant and principal for Erova Studios LLC. He has provided user experience consulting services to financial, entertainment, higher education, government, and association clients for ten years.

Cennydd Bowles (LinkedIn)
Cennydd Bowles works as a user experience designer for Clearleft in Brighton, England. Bored of an M.Sc. in Information Technology, he leapt into the mysterious world of user experience seven years ago and hasn’t shut up about it since. He is an active mentor, an erstwhile manager and regularly writes and rants about user experience design. Previous clients include Gumtree, JustGiving, UpMyStreet, Business Link and the WWF.

Adrian Chan (LinkedIn)
Adrian Chan is a social media expert and social interaction theorist at Gravity7. You can follow him on twitter at /gravity7

Fred Beecher (LinkedIn)
Fred Beecher is a Senior User Experience Consultant at Evantage Consulting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fred has been working in user experience design for 11 years, doing user research, information architecture, interaction design, and usability evaluation for a diverse array of clients.

Janna DeVylder (LinkedIn)
Janna DeVylder is Director of Communication at SCAD and President of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

Eilidh Dickson (LinkedIn)
Eilidh Dickson, originally from Scotland is curently a student at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Prior to moving to Copenhagen Eilidh had a background in Product and Service Design, where she placed strong emphasis on user centered design and the value of experience prototyping.

Kahuna Emeritus
Will Evans (LinkedIn)
Will Evans is founder and Principal User Experience Architect for Semantic Foundry with 14 years industry experience in information architecture user experience design.

Joe Fletcher (LinkedIn)
Joe Fletcher is a User Experience Manager at Microsoft Surface. His role is to assist in the comprehension of the unique properties of multi-touch as an input system, and developing new forms of UI that take advantage of this.

Mac Funamizu (LinkedIn)
Mac is an in-house web/graphic designer working in Tokyo, Japan. In his free time he invents new products and interactions, which he shares on his website petitinvention.

Michelle Gilmore (LinkedIn)
Michelle is a Senior Experience Architect at Digital Eskimo since 2007, bringing with her 7 years of experience in Industrial and User Centred Design, Digital Strategy and Marketing.

Penny Hagen (LinkedIn)
Penny is a Design Strategist with over 10 years experience in interactive technologies having designed or produced a range of online and interactive community projects in Australia and New Zealand.

Remco Homberg (LinkedIn)
Remco Homberg is pixelartist at panc.nl, designer at Fabrique, drummer at AC Berkheimer and constantly poundering about what to say on Twitter.

Bob Karreman (LinkedIn)
Bob Karreman is one of the people providing technical support for Johnny.

Dennis Koks (LinkedIn)
Designer | conceptual thinker for interactive media and co-founder of Transparent Spaces. Dennis is fascinated about the social impact of interactive design and how it can improve our daily lives.

Joe Lamantia (LinkedIn)
Joe Lamantia is an experience architect, strategist, and management & technology consultant based in Amsterdam. Joe has designed successful digital businesses, products, services, and experiences for clients ranging from the Fortune 100 to startups for nearly fifteen years.

Adam Little (LinkedIn)
Adam Little is a Pilot Year student at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design where he applies technology to people’s everyday lives by prototyping new ideas for products, services and software.

Dave Malouf (LinkedIn)
Professor of Interaction Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Brad Nunnally (LinkedIn)
Brad Nunnally is a User Experience Designer based in St. Louis, MO. Aside from planning the local IxDA meet ups, he works full-time at MiTek Industries as a Usability Architect.

Steve Portigal (LinkedIn)
Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a bite-sized firm that helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. He writes regularly for interactions magazine, Core77 and the Portigal Consulting blog, All This ChittahChattah.

Leisa Reichelt (LinkedIn)
Leisa Reichelt is a freelance contextual researcher and user centered designer based in London, UK. She is also user experience person on the D7UX project.

Dan Saffer (LinkedIn)
Dan Saffer is founder and principal of Kicker Studio, a design consultancy for consumer electronics, appliances, devices, and interactive environments, specializing in touchscreens and interactive gestures.

Patrick Sanwikarja (LinkedIn)
Patrick Sanwikarja is an interaction designer at Fabrique Communication and Design in Delft, The Netherlands. He wants to make the future happen by designing it.

Marc Sasinski (LinkedIn)
Marc Sasinski is a Senior User Experience Designer with Citrix Online in Santa Barbara, California. His previous experience includes working as a User Research and Design Consultant in Chicago, Illinois with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Marc also holds an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University.

Seth Snyder (LinkedIn)
Seth Snyder is an experience designer at Tellart in Providence, Rhode Island. He specializes in cross-disciplinary explorations through research, brainstorming, concept development, and interaction design. Prior to joining Tellart, Seth graduated with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design’s Industrial Design department.

Daniel Szuc (LinkedIn)
Daniel Szuc is a Principal Consultant at a Apogee Usability Asia Ltd, based in Hong Kong, and previously worked on a usability team for Telstra Australia.

One time contributors

- Bellen Barros
- David Farkas (LinkedIn)
- Martijn Gorree (LinkedIn)
- Nicolas Holzapfel (LinkedIn)
- Pieter Jongerius (LinkedIn)
- Kem Kramer
- Sam Ladner
- Joel Laumans (LinkedIn)
- Hugh Macdonald
- James Page
- Louise Roose (LinkedIn)
- Utkarsh Seth
- Jeremy Yuille
- Alla Zollers