Jesse James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett, co-founder and president of Adaptive Path, is one of the world's most widely recognized technology product designers. At Adaptive Path, Jesse supports the company's designers and strategists with creative guidance and helps them advance the company's thought leadership position.

Professional Background

Every day, product designers around the world depend on Jesse's tools and concepts, which have been published in more than a dozen languages. His book, The Elements of User Experience, has been called "brilliant" and "essential" and is considered one of the seminal works on user-centered design. Jesse is a frequent keynote speaker addressing audiences around the world on product design, user experience, and innovation. His writings on these topics have appeared in numerous publications.

In 2005, Jesse gained worldwide attention for coining the term Ajax and defining the concepts behind this emerging trend in Web technology. Since then, Ajax has become one of the driving forces in Web product design, and Jesse's leadership role in this trend has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek.

Jesse is the recipient of WIRED Magazine's 2006 Rave Award for Technology. He has been named one of the "50 Most Important People on the Web" by PC World magazine, one of the "Top 100 Most Influential People in IT" by eWeek magazine, and one of the top 100 technology industry leaders by Software Development Times magazine.

Past Appearances

May 19-21
Jesse James Garrett keynoted UX London.

May 13
Jesse James Garrett spoke at AIGA Cleveland.

May 19 - 23
Jesse James Garrett gave the keynote presentation at the Great Indian Developer Summit in Bangalore, India

October 21-23, 2007
Jesse James Garrett presented at Adaptive Path's MX East in Philadelphia, PA.

September 30- October 3, 2007
Jesse James Garrett attended Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicago, IL.

September 23-26, 2007
Jesse James Garrett spoke at the DMI International Design Management Conference in Williamsburg, VA.

September 6-8, 2007
Jesse James Garrett keynoted at Rich Web Experience in San Jose, CA.

August 13-16, 2007
Jesse James Garrett spoke at UX Week in Washington, D.C.

June 7-8, 2007
Jesse James Garrett keynoted @media 2007 in London, England.

March 22-26, 2007
Jesse James Garrett attended the IA Summit 2007 in Las Vegas, NV.

February 12-13, 2007
Jesse James Garrett presented at MX San Francisco in San Francisco, CA.

December 4-6, 2006
Jesse James Garrett spoke at WebBuilder 2.0 in Las Vegas, NV.

October 22-25, 2006
Jesse James Garrett attended the International Design Management Conference in Manchester Village, VT.

October 2-4, 2006
Jesse James Garrett spoke at AjaxWorld Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA.

August 14-17, 2006
Jesse James Garrett spoke at User Experience Week 2006, Washington, D.C.

June 7, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, Designing and Building with Ajax, Amsterdam, Netherlands

May 31, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, The Elements of User Experience, Copenhagen, Denmark

May 10, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, Designing and Building with Ajax, Austin, TX

March 23-27, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, IA Summit, Vancouver, BC Canada

March 10-14, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, SXSW, Austin, TX

March 13, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, Real-World Ajax, New York, NY

March 6-9, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, CA

January 25, 2006
Jesse James Garrett, The Elements of User Experience , Los Angeles, CA

January 26, 2006
Jesse James Garrett and Dan Saffer, Designing and Building with Ajax , Los Angeles, CA

December 8, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, Designing and Developing with AJAX, Chicago, IL

November 15-17, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition, Santa Clara, CA

November 10-11, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, Danmarks Forskningsbiblioteksforening, Copenhagen, Denmark

November 7, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, The Elements of User Experience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

September 15-18, 2005
Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz, AIGA Design Conference, Boston, MA

June 9, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, One-day Seminar, "The Elements of User Experience", Seattle, WA

June 8, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, "Brand-Driven Information Architecture", Seattle, WA

May 17, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, One-day Seminar with Different, "The Human Centered Design Revolution", Sydney, Australia

April 28, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, One-Day Seminar , "The Elements of User Experience", Boulder, CO

March 31-April 2, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, DigitalNow, "The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams," Orlando, FL

March 21, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, Web Design World, "The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams", San Francisco, CA

February 28-March 2, 2005
Jesse James Garrett, Design IT, Keynote Address, Tokyo, Japan

October 27, 2004
Jesse James Garrett, KMWorld & Intranets 2004, "The Elements of User Experience," Santa Clara, CA

October 4, 2004
Jesse James Garrett, Documentation and Training 2004, Keynote Presentation: "The Evolution of Information Architecture," Boston, MA

August 16-20, 2004
Adaptive Path Team, Adaptive Path's User Experience Week 2004, Washington, DC

July 22, 2004
Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path Workshops, "The Elements of User Experience," New York, New York

April 15, 2004
Jesse James Garrett, DigitalNow: Association Leadership in the Digital Age, "The Elements of User Experience," Orlando, FL

March 15, 2004
Jesse James Garrett, SXSW Interactive 2004, "The Frontiers of User Experience," Austin, TX

February 29, 2004
Jesse James Garrett, Fifth Annual ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit, "Brand Driven Information Architecture," Austin, TX

February 26, 2004
Jesse James Garrett, 20th Annual Partners in Business IT Seminar, Keynote Address: "The Frontiers of User Experience," Utah State University, Logan, UT

August 20, 2003
Adaptive Path Workshop: Jesse James Garrett, The Business of User Experience, "The Elements of User Experience", Washington, DC