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

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.

For the past eleven years, Emily has designed and produced hundreds of websites and web products for technology start-ups, businesses, leading universities and colleges, blog companies, non-profits, art and media and organizations as diverse as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Stylehive, GigaOM,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.

Emily is on the design jury for the 2008 Adobe Achievement Awards, serves as an advisory member of the Web 2.0 Expo committee, was an invited panelist at the SXSW Interactive conference in 2007, and is 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, 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. She has also shown digital videos on online venues and exhibited sculpture and installations in real spaces. 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 or at her company, ideacodes.com. She also creates at PicoCool and artcodes, her previous art blog and personal site.

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Monday, March 10, 2008
Ideacodes and Adaptive Path

Ideacodes is delighted to be working as a design partner for Adaptive Path, a leading user experience firm in San Francisco.

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Thursday, March 06, 2008
Ideacodes and Automattic

Ideacodes is pleased to be working with Matt Mullenweg and Automattic, the company behind WordPress, Akismet, bbPressRead more...

Monday, February 04, 2008
Quoted in the New York Times

Emily Chang was quoted in an article titled ”Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?”, in which Noam Cohen compares… Read more...

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Twitterverse Awarded Mashup of the Day

Thanks to MashupAwards for awarding Twitterverse the mashup of the day. Twitterverse is an Ideacodes Labs project which and provides a visualization of the… Read more...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Ideacodes and Howard Rheingold

Ideacodes is delighted to work with Howard Rheingold on his new video blog, vlog.rheingold.com. In Howard’s words: “It all started when I started… Read more...

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Ideacodes Redesigns ReadWriteWeb

Ideacodes has been working with Richard MacManus, Founder and Editor of ReadWriteWeb, on a redesign of the site which launched this week. Read more...

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Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, 2008

New Interface Paradigms

Now Your Plants Can Call or Twitter You

Young Women Driving the Social Web

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