Creative Innovation: Using Your Creative Side to Solve Problems, Relate to People and Build a Business

Andrew Van Fleet and Kurt Vander Wiel will talk about how creativity factors into their specialty: the emerging User Experience (UX) field, which involves creating digital solutions for human interface in touchscreens, mobile devices, advanced vehicle dashboards and rich internet applications. Both UNI graduates, Van Fleet (’98) and Vander Wiel (’88) are leading partners of Visual Logic, a User Experience (UX) consulting firm based in Waterloo and serving clients worldwide. Combining their backgrounds in design (Andy) and computer science (Kurt), they will demonstrate how creativity plays a factor in everything they do.