I Think Therefore IA
Christian Crumlish, 7 Cups of Tea

Christian Crumlish, longtime BayCHI program co-chair, has agreed to participate in a finale interview, an homage to Richard Anderson's scintillating performances from the glory days of the first bubble.

Talking on themes around the topic I Think therefore IA, or On the care and feeding of a successful mid-life crisis, BayCHI attendees will get access to his latest works on the crowd-sourced therapy platform, 7 Cups of Tea, as well as the distillation of his experience stewarding the IA summit.

Christian Crumlish leads product and design teams to deliver amazing cross-channel experiences. He is head of product at 7 Cups of Tea. He is also an advisor to Mainstreets, Inc., the makers of favr, a mentor at Code for America, and he co-chairs the monthly BayCHI program.

He was director of product at CloudOn, director of messaging products for AOL, curator of the Yahoo! design pattern library, and a director of the Information Architecture Institute.

He is the author of the bestselling The Internet for Busy People, and The Power of Many, and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces, with a second edition in press.

He has spoken at BarCamp, BayCHI, South by Southwest, the IA Summit, Ignite, Web 2.0 Expo, PLoP, IDEA, Interaction, WebVisions, the Web App Masters Tour, the Italian IA Summit, UX Lisbon, MobileCamp Chicago (remote track), UX Israel Live, and at Web Directions South (Sydney), East (Tokyo), and @media (London).