Biography of Craig Saila

Craig Saila is a leader in digital experience design. For nearly 25 years, he’s been helping innovative organizations grow by creating sustainable and engaging human-centric experiences across a portfolio of connected platforms.

For more than five years as CBC’s Head of Experience Design, he led the product design and UX research group creating digital content experiences and products for neatly 25 million people in Canada. Prior to that, he spent a decade at The Globe and Mail constantly evolving its design, as well as building its mobile portfolio and developing its digital subscription program. Saila also led the design and development team for NBC News’ network of sites, and worked with Facebook and Twitter’s on some of their first media experiments. With NBC, he also launched some of world’s first mobile news apps.

Throughout his career, he has spoken and written about UX design and research, product management, as well exploring how technology is shaping the way we experience our stories.

Saila has taught user experience design at OCAD University and online journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s of Applied Arts in Journalism.

Elsewhere

You can also find Craig at places like:

• Mastodon
• LinkedIn
• Figma
• Github
• are.na
• Medium

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