Doug Walston is Director of User Interface & Industrial Design for Motorola’s Mobile Devices business.  Based in Beijing, Doug heads up the business’ regional design studio, leading product and UI design strategies for the China market.  Doug and his team also work with Motorola’s global team of designers to define strategies across different product categories and classes of user interfaces.

Prior to this role, Doug served as Director of User Interface Design based in Chicago.  He lead a diverse team of usability experts, interaction designers and information architects tasked with elevating Motorola’s design philosophy and increasing usability of products in the global device portfolio.  He also lead development Motorola’s next-generation user interface for devices based on Linux+Java -- a key platform supporting the company’s global software strategy.

Doug joined Motorola’s Consumer Experience Design team in 2001 as Design Manager of Messaging and Internet Connectivity, building on his previous experience as Director of Information Architecture for Show&Tell, a Boston-based Web agency.  He was also principal and founder of Blue Parrot, an interactive consultancy in Austin, Texas.

Doug holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.