Tom Green is a retired Professor of Interactive Multimedia through the School of Media Studies and IT at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Education in Toronto, Canada. He has created over a dozen UX-based courses for LinkedIn Learning. One course--UX Design for Non-Designers, released 2 years ago--has been completed by over 35,000 learners throughout the world. Tom has written numerous books on UX design software for, among others, Apress, Que, Pearson Education, friendsofED, and New Riders. Along with his work with LinkedIn Learning, Tom has developed video-based training courses for Infinite Skills, Envato, Video2Brain, and others. He was the Graphics Software expert with the former About.com and has written hundreds of articles and tutorials for a variety of magazines and websites over the past 20 years. He has spoken and lectured at more than 50 international conferences and over a dozen universities throughout China and the U.S., including the University of Wisconsin, the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, WuHan Institute of Technology, and Shenzhen Polytechnic. In his spare time, you can catch him hiking a local trail or paddling across a lake in Northern Ontario.
Joseph Labrecque is a creative developer, designer, and educator with nearly two decades of experience creating expressive web, desktop, and mobile solutions. He joined the University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication, and Information as faculty with the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design in Autumn 2019. His teaching focuses on creative software, digital workflows, user interaction, and design principles and concepts. Before joining the faculty at CU Boulder, he was associated with the University of Denver as adjunct faculty and as a senior interactive software engineer, user interface developer, and digital media designer.
Labrecque has authored a number of books and video course publications on design and development technologies, tools, and concepts through publishers which include LinkedIn Learning, Apress, Peachpit, Packt, and Adobe. He has spoken at large design and technology conferences such as Adobe MAX and for a variety of smaller creative communities. He is also the founder of Fractured Vision Media, LLC, a digital media production studio and distribution vehicle for a variety of creative works.
Joseph is an Adobe Education Leader, Adobe Community Expert, and member of Adobe Partners by Design. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Worcester State University and a master’s degree in digital media studies from the University of Denver.