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The Mobients Team
As a mobile user experience design & strategy company, Mobients is intimately aware of consumer behavior, wants, and needs—and how to balance those with the drivers of your business. Being focused strictly on the mobile and convergent channels ensures that we are always on top of the latest trends in the mobile space. Mobients has a proven track record helping brands navigate the challenges of mobile—making smart usability trade-offs in design, and creating the best, most seamless, and usable experience. At Mobients we understand how to economize efforts and minimize costs while helping you extend your brand’s products and services to the mobile channel.
Matthew Perry, Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Perry is one of the original founding members and now leads the overall strategic direction of Mobients. Under his leadership, Matthew has assembled a team of top mobile industry experts spanning the range of user experience and strategy disciplines (business & product strategy, usability, marketing & branding, visual design, information architecture, and user research).
Matthew’s diverse background in business, mathematics, technical architecture, and user experience design has allowed him to effectively communicate and align stakeholders across disciplines to drive not only effective user experience design solutions, but the adoption of mature user experience practices within industry-leading mobile technology companies.
Since founding Mobients in 2007, Matthew has directed dozens of successful projects and partnerships with major industry players in the carrier, manufacturer, and mobile banking spaces. Some major brands benefiting from Matthew’s expertise include Qualcomm, AT&T, Sprint, Sun Microsystems, and Revolution Health.
mperry@mobients.com
Yvonne Caravia, Chief Experience Officer
Yvonne Caravia oversees the process and quality of design deliverables at Mobients. She brings strategic insight and mobile design expertise to Mobients from having worked extensively with a variety of major mobile industry players.
Having lead the user experience design of dozens of services for all major service providers and manufacturers, Yvonne has accumulated a deep understanding of the device ecosystem and interaction best practices. Yvonne played a critical role in the formation of AT&T’s User Experience Group, which helped define the User Experience Practice within AT&T.
Her background in human-centered design has given her an eye for focusing on delivering intuitive, engaging and delightful user experiences that are informed by real people. She is passionate about the mobile world we live in and how to enable meaningful cultural and emotional connections with real people every day.
Some past clients that have benefited from her expertise include the following: AT&T, Sprint, Qualcomm, BMW, Motricity, LG, Samsung, Apple, IDEO, and FROG.
ycaravia@mobients.com
John Schmidt, Chief Information Officer
John Schmidt is a computer engineer who has worked extensively in the telecommunications and eCommerce fields, both in the U.S. and abroad. He was motivated to join Mobients in 2007 after realizing that the mobile paradigm is going to fundamentally change mass consumer computing.
John leads the strategy and process evolution practices within Mobients and has extensive experience with mobile product development, location-based services, and mobile commerce. His 15 years of experience within the mobile industry includes work with Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, Arcor, Nortel, The Motley Fool, and Match.com International.
jschmidt@mobients.com
Katie Leonard, Ph.D., Chief Human Factors Engineer
Dr. Katie Leonard has over 10 years experience in user experience research and interface design. She has lead projects involving a variety of mobile technologies including cell phones, mp3 players, touch screen devices, smart phones, appliances and remotes. She has worked with clients to optimize user experience on projects ranging from platform accessibility to mobile banking and commerce.
During her studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she gained experience with a variety of applications and hardware, deriving design recommendations and testing methodologies for mobile and desktop interfaces for a wide range of users. Her dissertation research addressed evaluations of older adults with visual impairments using mobile technologies.
Katie is credited as a contributing author to over 25 books, journal articles, and conference papers on aspects of human factors research process, user-centered design, human-computer interaction and accessibility. Previous clients have included manufacturers, interface designers, and mobile carriers such as Samsung, LG, AT&T, and Qualcomm.