Verena Hurnaus [Lugmayr] is a User Experience Designer based in Seattle, WA. Working on next generation experiences for the digital world with a focus on touch and pen based experiences as well as making complicated systems easy to use. My greatest passion is designing, to help people in their daily lifes, which makes the user priority #1 in my design process.

Originally from Austria with a passion for travelling, I love to explore the world, loose myself in an exciting book or just think about new design issues to solve.

With almost 5 years of experience in designing digital experiences for users world wide, I have expertise in designing for touch and pen based systems for phones, tablets and interactive walls and tables. One of my strength is to think through and simplify complex systems. Durning my work at Artefact (Oct 2008 - now) as a User Experience Designer I worked for companies like Microsoft, Arena Net, H&R Block, RIM, Fluke, Infospace, HTC and Xbox to create vision concepts, wireframes, graphic design, system specifications as well as vision videos and RITE tests.

Prior to working at Artefact I worked at Oberoesterreiche Tourismus Technologie (Feb 2006 - July 2006) in Linz, Austria as a Web Designer & Developer, to create experiences for tourism websites.

From 2003 until 2008 I attended the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria where I studied Media Technology and Design as well as Digital Media. These programms allowed me to get knowledge in software design and development as well as user experience and graphic design.