Gene Liebel is Partner, Director of User Experience at HUGE where he oversees User Research, Analytics, and Experience Design. The UX group sits at the center of HUGE's methodology and is now among the largest and most successful departments of its kind. Websites and other products designed by HUGE now enjoy over 160 million unique visitors monthly. Prior to joining HUGE, Liebel was Vice President, Product Management at Silverpop Systems, a leading provider of CRM software. Liebel's product designs have won numerous industry honors including Communications Art's Interactive Media Award, an International ANDY Award, and several @dTech Prizes. He received a B.A. in Classics from Bard College.
After about 8 years at HUGE, today Liebels focus is on setting up healthy processes and teams across multiple projects. In addition, he now invests a lot of my time identifying exactly which things are getting results for our client partners, in an effort to try and bring this knowledge back into our design process.
Gene Liebel has got the opportunity to work on a variety of projects-web, mobile, interactive TV, kiosk etc-in collaboration with Jetblue, MTV, About.com, IKEA, British Airways, Amnesty International, and NYC Visit (the official marketing and tourism group for New York City).