Annette Priest is a Senior Manager Experience Design, Research at Netsuite. She possess expertise in user experience, user centered design, usability testing, information architecture, heuristic evaluation and 40 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Annette is the reason I have a career in UX research. That sentence means more than I can probably convey. When I met Annette, I was working at Dell as a former journalist who was kind of struggling. This was 2006. She mentored me, showed me the possibilities in UX, gave me a stack of books to read, and most importantly said, I believe you can do this. I drank up everything she taught me and watched her like a hawk, trying to emulate the way she interacted with users, stakeholders and executives. It’s 14 years later, and I can’t imagine not having this career. She’s magic. " and "Annette and I worked together across her time at the Advisory Board Company and Optum. In both organizations, Annette was a tireless and often singular voice advocating for and educating others on how to approach problems with a UX mindset. She successfully applied that mindset to drive innovations in our approach to technology, to better measure and ultimately improve the satisfaction of our user base, and to make internal corporate processes more humane and enjoyable. The breadth of opportunities that Annette saw, both internal and external, to improve experience was remarkable, and I particularly enjoyed participating in design-oriented brainstorming sessions that she volunteered to host and organize."