Jesse James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett is a User Experience Designer based in San Francisco, California and co-founder of Adaptive Path strategy and design consulting firm.<a href="#cite_note-adaptivepath-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a> His diagram titled The Elements of User Experience launched his popularity in the web design community in early 2000, which was later published as a book.<a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;">[2]</a> In a 2005 paper,<a href="#cite_note-garrett-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;">[3]</a> Garrett coined the term <a href="/en/Ajax_(programming)" title="Ajax (programming)" class="wl">Ajax</a> to describe the <a href="/en/Asynchrony_(computing)" title="Asynchrony (computing)" class="mw-redirect wl">asynchronous</a> technology behind emerging services like <a href="/en/Google_Maps" title="Google Maps" class="wl">Google Maps</a> and Google Suggest, as well as the resulting user experience which made it possible to browse without interruption by eliminating the reloading of the whole page.<a href="#cite_note-shower-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;">[4]</a>

<figure class="wiki-thumb"><a href="/en/File:Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg/260px-Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="3024" data-file-type="bitmap" height="260" width="260" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg/390px-Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg/520px-Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg 2x" alt="Jesse_James_Garrett_2016.jpg"></a><figcaption>Garrett in 2016</figcaption></figure>

Jesse James Garrett is a User Experience Designer based in San Francisco, California and co-founder of Adaptive Path strategy and design consulting firm. 