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Philip Haine founded
Obvious Design in February 1997 to provide consulting
services in two overlapping areas: interactive product design
and product vision and strategy. Major clients have included
Intuit, Adobe, PalmOne, PalmSource, Gap, Akamai, Opsware, Broderbund,
and several startups.
Before founding Obvious Design, Philip was the
lead interaction designer at Claris
Corporation. During his three year tenure, he designed
Claris Organizer 2.0 and ClarisImpact 2.0, and oversaw the design
of Claris Emailer 2.0. All three products have won awards.
Organizer lives on, in the form of Palm Desktop for the
Mac.
Before Claris, Philip was a software
engineer at GO Corporation for over two years, until
its demise in 1993. Philip designed and prototyped pen-based
user interfaces, and architected a communications infrastructure
for the PenPoint operating system.
As a program manager
at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington,
Philip designed features for Word for Windows 2.0 and conducted
research into software usage patterns using an instrumented version
of Word. As a software
engineer, he
worked on the last DOS version of Microsoft Word, and on WinHelp
for Windows 3.0.
Philip has a B.Math
in computer science with a minor in psychology from the University
of Waterloo.
Philip has filed and been granted several patents
relating to interactive design and software architecture, on behalf
of his clients and employers. Philip is in the midst of
writing a book on product vision.
Philip was born in Montreal and plays jazz drums
in San Francisco.
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