Erin Malone is an author, design historian, educator, and a recently paused senior-level user experience designer and researcher who has spent her career deconstructing complex systems, designing web and software applications, and social experiences, and leading experience design teams. She is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Interaction Design BFA program at California College of the Arts. She is the author of the forthcoming book from MIT Press In Through the Side Door: Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design, coming in October 2024.