Brandon Schauer

Brandon Schauer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. He speaks, writes, trains, and practices experience design as a differentiator for business strategy.

Professional Background

Brandon's passion for finding and understanding the unmet needs of customers has led him to diverse environments, from the homes of cancer patients to tunnels beneath Walt Disney World. This insight with customers -- plus a solid grounding in business analysis and a mastery of design methods -- allows Brandon to help organizations define and design more meaningful experiences for their customers.

Brandon has over a decade of experience developing new products, services, and user experiences for the web, desktop, and devices. He's keynoted, presented, and conducted workshops at such conferences at Business to Buttons, IA Summit, Designertopia, and UIE Web App Summit.

Past clients include American Cancer Society, Bank of New York, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan Bank, First Union Bank, Flickr, JetBlue, LeapFrog, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, morningstar, NYCE, and Vanguard Financial.

Brandon holds two master-level degrees from schools with the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received a Master of Design from the Institute of Design in Chicago where he studied the planning, development, and management of innovation. Concurrently, he graduated with a MBA from the Stuart School of Business. Brandon is a past editor for the Institute of Design's Perspectives on Design and Strategy, allowing him to pick-the-brains of leaders in the fields of innovation, design, and strategy.

He also has a love of Excel that is unnatural for a designer.

Upcoming Appearances

September 17-18
Brandon Schauer will be attending the DMI Seminar Creating Meaningful Brand Experiences and Producing Customer Happiness in Seattle, Washington.

October 7
Brandon Schauer will be on the panel, Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA.

October 13
Brandon Schauer will be leading the Design Strategy workshop at UX Intensive in Copenhagen, Denmark.

November 16-18
Brandon Schauer will be presenting at CanUX in Banff, Alberta.