Half a decade ago, Cameron Moll wrote the well-received article, “Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign” for A List Apart. Many of today’s interactive experiences (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, the iPhone) were still in their infancy or didn’t even exist when Moll wrote that piece. Now, a new generation of web and mobile apps are standard utilities for millions of people every day. Fresh off the #NewTwitter redesign, I’d love to explore this question of whether to redesign or realign once again under new contexts of current product design.

About the Speaker

Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose creations and strong convictions have pushed him to the forefront of modern web design. Bowman left a long career at Wired in 2002 to focus on Stopdesign, a small consulting firm he founded in San Francisco. Under Stopdesign, he designed sites and applications for Google, Capgemini, Blogger, Cathay Pacific Airways,Adaptive Path, and Mighty Goods. In 2006, he put work for Stopdesign on hold to join Google as Visual Design Lead. In 2009, Bowman left Google to join Twitter as its Creative Director, where he leads the Design and Design Research teams, and is helping change the world, one hundred and forty characters (or less) at a time.