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Paige Bennett

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy

Paige Bennett manages the Ecosystems Design Research team at Dropbox. She...

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Mick Champayne

DisciplinesGraphic Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Illustration, Innovation

IndustryAdvertising

Mick Champayne is a Lead Experience Designer at Digitas by daylight, and an...

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Swetha Suresh

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Product Development, Storytelling

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

Swetha Suresh an Architect turned UX/Product Designer....

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Nicola Rushton

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Career, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Lean, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Nicola is a product design consultant, UX researcher, writer, business owner, and nomad....

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Jae Sung Soled

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Communication, Culture, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Jae Sung Soled is a senior content strategist at Facebook working on the news team....

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Amber Bonney

DisciplinesBrand, Design Operations, Graphic Design

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustriesAdvertising, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Marketing, Nonprofit

Amber is an experienced branding and identity strategist, educator and speaker....

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Jennifer Noinaj

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Design Thinking, Social Innovation

Jenn is a user experience designer passionate about civic tech, design for social...

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Bonnie Zhou

DisciplineFront-end Engineering

TopicsAccessibility, Community, Creativity, CSS, Design Systems, HTML, JavaScript, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Bonnie is a frontend engineer who loves the web, accessibility, design, and dance....

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Jess Huang

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Teamwork

IndustryRetail

Jess Huang is a Senior Product Designer at Babylist....

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Alba Villamil

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Methodology, Social Innovation

Alba Villamil is an independent Design Researcher who specializes in the social...

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Kathy Wagner

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Methodology, Web & Mobile

Kathy is founder of Content Strategy Inc, Canada’s only consultancy focusing...

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Rochelle Newton

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Management, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Data, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Policy, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryEducation

Dr. Rochelle Newton is a senior Information Technology (IT) Manager for Duke University....

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Farwa Kazmi

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBlockchain, Career, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Product Development, Robotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

Farwa is an award-winning Head of Product and Design. With 10 years in digital, she...

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Windy Chien

DisciplineArt

TopicsCreativity

IndustryArts & Entertainment

I became an artist in one year. If I can change my life, you can too....

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Marivi Carlton

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustryTechnology

Marivi is a Venezuelan immigrant, who deeply cares about raising awareness about...

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Jane Connory

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunication

IndustryEducation

Academic working towards a gender inclusive history of Australian graphic design....

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Vibha Bamba

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Creativity, Design Thinking, Product Development, Service Design, Typography, Web & Mobile

Vibha is a design lead at Airbnb. Her design work is focused on making sure that...

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Elaine Lee

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsRobotics & AI, Voice UI

IndustriesTechnology, Telecommunications

Elaine Lee is the Principal Product Designer for Twilio Autopilot, Twilio's...

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Jina Anne

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Front-end Engineering, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCSS, Design Systems

IndustryTechnology

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Jina is a design systems advocate, coach, and community builder. At Opvitae, she is an advisory board member, focused on design direction and UX. Previously, Jina was a Senior Design Systems Lead for a new, special projects team at Amazon. At Salesforce, Jina was lead designer on the Lightning Design System. She also lead the overall Salesforce UX community and evangelism efforts, by acting as Editor-in-Chief for the Salesforce UX blog. At Apple, she led the CSS architecture and maintained the...

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Neena Speer

DisciplinesBrand, Business

TopicsCommunication, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Storytelling, Teamwork

From an early age, Speer’s mother and father encouraged her that she was going to be a CE...

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So You’ve Got a Seat at the Table. Now What?

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsLeadership, Management & Strategy

Speaker Andrea Mignolo

We've been fighting the good fight to get design at the table. Across companies large...

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Tarah Srethwatanakul

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsService Design, Storytelling

IndustryTechnology

I'm a service designer and mixed methods researcher with experience across Europe,...

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The Power of Proverbial Expression in Design Research

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsEthics, Service Design, Social Innovation

Speaker Sarah Fathallah

How can proverbs be used to enrich our design research practice?...

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Jennifer Kilian

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy

Meet Jennifer. Equal parts business strategist and creative visionary, Jennifer takes...

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Caring Systems: Documentation as care

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCommunication, Design Systems, Teamwork

Speaker Amelia Abreu

All humans require care. Writing and maintaining documentation is a form of care:...

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Rachel Gogel

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Graphic Design, Product Design

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Illustration, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Teamwork, Typography, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Parisian in SF & Creative Director at Facebook influencing the in-product brand experience...

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Gamification

DisciplinesGame Design, Graphic Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy

Speaker Catherine Aurelio

Catherine Aurelio is the User Experience and Creative Direction Lead at Bunchball....

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The Architecture of Talent

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Systems, Leadership, Service Design

Speaker Alberta Soranzo

Service design places users squarely at the center of its practice, and fulfilling...

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Diamond Ho

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCommunity, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Illustration, Methodology

IndustryTechnology

Diamond is a product designer at Facebook, previously at Logitech....

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The designer’s view to anti-sexism

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion

Speaker Cathy Wang

We have always heard of the cliché phrase: “sex sells.” How do we design in a world that is intentionally and unintentionally powered by sexually-biased? As designers, we are trained to look at the world around us with a curiosity and inquisition. If we take a design research approach to looking at gender, what will we find? In this session, we will be taking a deeper look at how gender bias is embedded in the modern society. We will explore different examples of gender prejudice and mental...

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