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Katie Briggs

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Thinking, Innovation, Methodology, Teamwork, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

Katie Briggs practices product design, user research and strategic problem solving at NPR....

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Lacey Wilson

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustriesEducation, Healthcare, Nonprofit

Lacey engages individuals in conversations that empower and transform communication....

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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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Sharon Bautista

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Community, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Service Design, Teamwork

Sharon Bautista is a Chicago-based user experience researcher and designer....

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Sonya Highfield

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Entrepreneurship

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Finance

Sonya Highfield is a Boston born and bred entrepreneur dedicated to helping creative...

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Lila Symons

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Design Strategy, Innovation, Typography

IndustryRetail

Lila is a typeface designer and lettering artist who specializes in font development....

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Eve Blouin

DisciplinesBusiness, Content Strategy

TopicsCreativity, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Social Innovation

Eve is a PhD candidate in Psychology. She is an expert on creativity and imagination,...

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Ariba Jahan

DisciplinesProduct Design, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Ethics

IndustryNonprofit

As an immigrant Bengali woman that discovered my profound hearing loss at age eight,...

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Brenda Michelle Sánchez Montaño

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Community, Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustryEducation

Psicologa, Uxer,...

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Lara Fedoroff

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

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Methodology, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Lara Fedoroff is the Director of Product Strategy at Philosophie, a design and...

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Tasha Lutfi

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Tasha Lutfi is a Principal Design Manager at Microsoft...

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Ari Krzyzek

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

A creative entrepreneur, designer, mentor, speaker, and professional peer...

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Emily Hauptle

DisciplineBrand

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Data, Innovation, Management & Strategy

Emily is a marketing automation expert speaking on marketing/advertising ideas and trends....

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Laurie Barth

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsCommunication, JavaScript, Product Development, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Laurie is a developer with a passion for helping the next generation of female...

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Svetlana Kouznetsova

DisciplinesBusiness, Front-end Engineering, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Disability, Web & Mobile

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Technology, Telecommunications

Consultant specializing in UX & Accessibility for products, media, events....

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Vickie Evans

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsEntrepreneurship

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Nonprofit

Vickie L.Evans is a life coach, national public speaker, and bestselling author....

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Lee Levy

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Product Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Design Strategy, HTML, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Graduated from Florida State University and became a freelancer, owns her own business....

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Sarmishta Pantham

DisciplinesBrand, Fashion, Graphic Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking

Sarmishta Pantham is a designer and maker based in Berlin, and currently Head of...

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Jacinda Walker

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustryEducation

LocationAkron, OH, USA

Jacinda Walker is a designer, entrepreneur, and instructor with over 20 years of industry experience, who calls Cleveland, Ohio home. She believes that “participation is the key to success.” Her work ranges from designing publications to educational programming and event management. A graduate of Cleveland Heights High School, Ms. Walker continued to earn both her Associates of Applied Business in Commercial Art and Bachelors of Fine Arts in graphic design with minors in drawing and computer imaging...

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Shir Zalzberg

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsData, Design Systems, Entrepreneurship, Illustration, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Shir is the lead UI/UX designer at OverOps and the founder of "Startup Designers" meetup....

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Help Me Visualize My Damn Data

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsData

IndustryHealthcare

Speaker Katie McCurdy

Recently I visualized my medical record data and symptom history, and through the...

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Jazmyn Latimer

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Social Innovation, Storytelling

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

Jazmyn is a Product Designer and User Researcher who works on problems that affect...

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Design Systems at Zendesk

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Systems

Speaker Allison Shaw

At Zendesk, our team of 30+ product designers work on 7 different products across 6...

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Mia Blume

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Mia Blume is a product designer and design leadership coach living in San Francisco....

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Design Principles: The Philosophy of UX

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy

Speaker Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess, user experience designer, explores the principals of good user design...

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Ari Krzyzek

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

A creative entrepreneur, designer, mentor, speaker, and professional peer...

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Gray Area Festival: Living Systems Design Research

DisciplinesArchitecture, Product Design

TopicsDesign Systems, Environment, Product Development, Regenerative Design, Sustainability

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

Speaker Dawn Danby

Dawn Danby explores connections among design, technology, and planetary health...

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Data Sketches: A Year of Exotic Data Visualizations

DisciplinesArt, Front-end Engineering

TopicsData, Visual Thinking

Speaker Nadieh Bremer

Sharing lessons on data, sketching & coding an elaborate data visual every month...

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Stephanie Lawrence

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics

IndustriesGovernment, Healthcare, Retail

Stephanie is a UX designer and researcher in Brooklyn....

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Writing Story for Video Games: Non-Linear Narratives

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsStorytelling

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Rayna Anderson

Highlights from a panel that explores best practices to keep in mind when writing for video games, where you’re asking your audience to actively participate rather than passively watch. Moderated by Dale Adams (Architek One), with panelists Rayna Anderson (Eidos Montreal, Deux Ex: Mankind Divided), Alexander Horn (Sid Meier’s Civilization series, The Elder Scrolls Online), Jared Mason (Schell...

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