Barbara Spanton
Macadamian TechnologiesBarb is Principal Designer at Macadamian Technologies - a UX design and development studio in Ottawa. Since her work on first-generation mobile email apps back in the mid-90s, to her recent focus on healthcare applications for a wide range of medical settings, Barb has worked both in-house and as a consultant, leading multi-disciplinary teams through solving all sorts of messy problems. Highly active in the UX community, Barb teaches mobile design to the next generation of UX designers at Algonquin College, she co-chaired Ottawa's wildly successful CanUX Conference for several years, and has a few other initiatives simmering at the moment.