Emily Chang - About

about emily

Emily Chang is an award-winning web and interaction designer, technology strategist and co-founder of Ideacodes, a design and web consultancy in San Francisco that she started with long-time partner, Max Kiesler.

For the past twelve years, Emily has designed and produced hundreds of websites and web products for technology start-ups, businesses, universities and colleges, design companies, non-profits, art and media and organizations as diverse as IDEO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Stylehive, GigaOM, Adaptive Path, Six Apart, Hewlett Packard and the Sierra Club. Her expertise ranges from strategy to design to user experience and programming for social web applications, web communities, hybrid media sites, personalized portals and content management systems, to social software and blogs.

She writes about web and user experience design, technology, and next generation web at EmilyChang.com, and is the creator of the popular web 2.0 resource, eHub and eHub Interviews (including the translated eHub Channel at CNET Japan). She's also the co-creator of Twitterverse.com, a word and tag mashup based on Twitter's public messages. Most recently, Emily launched PicoCool, "a new site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Cool content from real people." PicoCool is the first site of its kind to focus on the content being created by people on social networks and through peer media.

Emily is an advisory member of the Web 2.0 Expo design and user experience committee, a judge on the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, has been a panelist at the SXSW Interactive conference, and was an invited member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, Ajax Developer's Journal and Corante Web Hub. Her internet work has garnered dozens of design and interactive awards, including a SXSW finalist award for community weblog, two prestigious Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) grand gold awards in interactive media, IBM Best Practices Partner for a portal to serve university students, and Web Marketing Association's Best University website.

Prior to co-founding Ideacodes with Max Kiesler, Emily was a partner and creative director in a marketing communications firm, the first web director of the Cornell Entrepreneur Network at Cornell University, an independent design consultant, and the first interface designer for the University at Buffalo web team, a leading electronic media and marketing unit.

She has an M.F.A. in sculpture and media from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a B.A. in literature from the College of William and Mary. As an artist, she has shown digital videos at numerous online venues and exhibited sculpture and installations in galleries in New York. Having traveled and lived extensively around the world (North America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe), Emily currently lives and works in the SOMA district in downtown San Francisco.

You can reach Emily through this contact form, through her company, Ideacodes, or through most social networks on the web.