Biography

Christian Crumlish leads product and design teams to deliver amazing cross-channel experiences. He consults on Product & UX leadership at Design in Product, where he also hosts a community.

He is lead product manager at California’s Office of Data & Innovation, where he managed COVID19.CA.GOV, launched abortion.ca.gov, and is working now on closing the benefits gap.

He was VP of Product at 7 Cups, Senior Director of Product & UX at CloudOn (acquired by Dropbox in 2015), Director of Product for AIM, & the last curator of the Yahoo design pattern library.

He is the author of Product Management for UX People: From Designing to Thriving in a Product World (Rosenfeld Media, 2022), the bestselling The Internet for Busy People (Sybex, 1995), and The Power of Many (Wiley, 2004), and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces, Second Edition (O’Reilly, 2015).

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), EuroIA.