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Yadvi Maheshwari

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Visual Thinking

Hello 👋 I'm Yadvi, a product designer passionate about crafting intentional...

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Carmen Broomes

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Methodology

IndustryTechnology

Carmen Broomes is the Head of UX Research at Handshake where she helps students...

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Victoria Nduka

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion

Victoria Nduka is a user experience designer passionate about technology,...

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Antara Dave

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Data, Design Systems, Design Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Antara Dave is a Product Designer a unique blend of skills, combining her foundation...

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Leena Joshi

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsEntrepreneurship, Environment, Leadership, Social Innovation, Storytelling, Sustainability

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Nonprofit

Leena Joshi is a social entrepreneur, public speaker, climate advocate and author....

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Parul Gupta

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, Engineering, Industrial Design

TopicsCareer, Ethics, Innovation, Robotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

Parul is a Senior Production Engineer at Meta, where she works within the Python...

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Priya Bajaj

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Sales

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling

Priya Bajaj: Sales, Marketing, AI. Curiosity-driven career strategies for the 3/3 jackpot...

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Esmeralda Tijhoff

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, Front-end Engineering, Product Management

TopicsCommunity, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Privilege, Product Development, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

Esmeralda Tijhoff is a Product Manager and Open Source Officer at Dictu, specialising...

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Jamal Amanova

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAR/VR, Business Design, Creativity, Design Thinking

Jamal joins Women Talk Design to elevate the stage with bold, visionary design...

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Valeria Stromtsova

DisciplinesProduct Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsEnvironment, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Sustainability, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Valeria is a product leader focused on sustainability, mentorship, and innovation....

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Lisa Gralnek

DisciplinesBrand, Business, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Communication, Community, Creativity, Environment, Ethics, Innovation, Leadership, Sustainability

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

A driving force in strategy and brand building, Lisa is an influential business...

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Berenice Méndez

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCareer, Culture, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Berenice is a Creative Director living in San Francisco, originally from the border...

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Julie Smithson

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Immersive Experience Design, User Experience

TopicsAR/VR, Business Design, Business Strategy, Community, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Storytelling, Sustainability, Teamwork, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Top 100 Women of the Future, CEO of METAVRSE, & CoFounder of XR Women & Unlimited Awesome...

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Valeria Adani

DisciplinesBusiness, Data Science, Design Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Ethics, Innovation, Product Development

Valeria Adani is Partner and Interim CEO at IF, a design agency specialising in trust....

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Jamie Roberts

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCareer, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryAdvertising

Jamie Roberts provides creative career support to design professionals across the globe....

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Soren Hamby

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Community, Culture, Design Systems, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Service Design

IndustryHealthcare

Soren Hamby is dedicated to fostering team diversity and inclusion while spearheading...

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Ashley Gross

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Robotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

Ashley Gross is an accomplished AI leader, practitioner, and educator with over 5...

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Mae Reed

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Communication, Culture, Design Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Mae Reed is a master of transforming complex systems into intuitive, E2E experiences....

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Abby Bajuniemi

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Communication, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Methodology, Voice UI

IndustryTechnology

LocationTwin Cities, Minnesota, USA

Abby Bajuniemi is a researcher, strategist, and experience designer. She completed a PhD in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at the University of Minnesota, where her research interests centered on language acquisition and sociolinguistics. She also has expertise in language use on social media, dialectology, identity and language, and translation/localization. She is currently a research and design consultant and specializes in research strategy, methods, and interaction...

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Beatrice Ungard, Ph.D.

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Design, Community, Environment, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Regenerative Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability

Beatrice is the founder of Soma Integral Consulting, a firm with a mission to address...

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The Leader’s Guide to the Care and Feeling of Humans

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsLeadership, Teamwork

Speaker Kara DeFrias

Kara DeFrias is a leading UX Director with a stellar resume spanning private and...

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Abby Covert

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Taxonomy, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

Abby Covert is an information architect who loves to make sense of messes. ...

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Equality

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Teamwork

Speaker Sameera Kapila

Giving people the same opportunity requires acknowledging not everyone starts with...

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Maggie Jandova

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Hey :) I’m Maggie, a UX UI Designer from Prague, now living and working remotely...

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Finding Umami

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Thinking

Speaker Vicki Tan

Nowadays, many companies consider themselves “mission-driven” yet important...

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Micha Goebig

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer

Confidence Expert, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author, Member of Forbes Coaches Council....

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The Importance of Scrappiness

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Design Thinking, Innovation

Speaker Amy Chenault

Precursor to a full talk - Don't Worry, Be...

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Process and Ambiguity

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Leadership, Management & Strategy

Speaker Amy Thibodeau

Operations teams obsess about making the complex simple. We love smart defaults,...

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Melissa Sepe-Johnston

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Leadership, Methodology, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Melissa is a Senior UX Writer at Google, where she leads writing and design projects...

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Designing a Design System

DisciplinesBrand, Design Operations, User Experience

TopicsCSS, Design Strategy, Design Systems

IndustryTechnology

EventMixin Conf

Speaker Jina Anne

Product design for web and mobile is evolving at a fast pace. As the range of devices and platforms continues to expand, so do the design considerations. Learn how design systems help a design team build a framework that meets their needs by bringing together all of the critical design components, including style guides, pattern and UI libraries, CSS frameworks, and other resources. In this session, Jina, lead designer on the Design Systems team at Salesforce UX, will share: Strategies to approach, ...

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