M. Pell

Bold, insightful, and uncompromising, M. Pell is recognized as a thought leader in the fields of Holographic Envisioning and Smart Information.

Pell currently leads Design for The Microsoft Garage, the company’s outlet for experimental projects and curiosity-fueled explorations, worldwide.

As a lifelong Designer/Coder, Pell has consistently been on the leading edge of design and innovation over his thirty-years in high-technology.

Besides his writing, M. Pell is a dynamic presenter who delivers entertaining talks on a wide variety of design topics. His evolution from intrepid entrepreneur, to VC-backed startup veteran, to corporate man for Adobe and Microsoft has given him a unique perspective to draw on when discussing how to combine business, experience, and technology to create experience breakthroughs.

Career highlights include creating the first stylized Font menu at the dawn of the Macintosh (MenuFonts), working with Pixar to pioneer 3D type generation with RenderMan (TextMan), co-inventing electronic document interchange (Adobe Acrobat), conceptualizing dynamic 3D information (InfoSpaces), developing a rapid design method (Fast Design), and being the inventor on over a dozen U.S. Patents.

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