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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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Rena Kuai

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

LocationCarrollton, Texas

Rena is an ex-product manager turned product designer who currently resides in Dallas, TX with her husband and cat, Tony Montana. She's passionate about helping others transition into design and mentoring women and minorities in tech. Besides design stuff, she likes running / lifting weights, traveling (and travel hacking), and watercolor painting in her free...

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Holly Chasan-Young

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Product Development, Service Design

Holly Chasan-Young (She/Her) is an award-winning mentor and guide who equips people...

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It Takes a Village to Raise a Bot

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsRobotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

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Stop fretting about whether or not you're ready or worthy enough to work with AI....

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Jing Jin

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Communication, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Award-winning product and design leader with a passion in EdTech....

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The Path to Product Excellence (and how to accelerate it)

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Gülay Birand

More UXers have a seat at the table than any time before. We are sought after to...

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Libby Jacobson

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

A librarian by training, Libby's passions are information architecture and design systems....

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Experience Design for IoT Security: Inspiration from Building Architecture

DisciplinesArchitecture, User Experience

TopicsCulture, IoT, Security

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Ame Elliott

There is a tremendous design opportunity in making the user experience of Internet of...

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Stacey Mendez

DisciplinesIndustrial Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, IoT, Leadership, Methodology, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesEducation, Technology, Telecommunications

A versatile design leader focused on solving challenges that drive change & innovation...

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Establishing Meaningful Relationships with Communities You Serve

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion, Service Design, Social Innovation

Speaker Sarah Fathallah

How can we form more authentic relationships and coalitions with community?...

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Interacting in the Global City

DisciplineLandscape Architecture

TopicsCulture

IndustryEducation

Speaker Saskia Sassen

In today’s global cities, public urban space is constituted in my different ways....

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Jeany Ngo

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Illustration

IndustryTechnology

Jeany is a designer and illustrator currently at Airbnb. Her work focuses around...

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What is Trauma-Informed Design?

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility

IndustriesGovernment, Healthcare, Nonprofit, Technology

EventMeetup, UXPA

Speaker Melissa Eggleston

Learn about trauma-informed design for websites and apps. UX Designer Melissa Eggleston shares her experience of applying trauma-informed principles to websites and apps since 2016. It covers: Melissa's journey to learning about trauma-informed care What is trauma-informed design? The tricky thing about trauma The overlap of UX and trauma-informed principles 3 practical takeaways This talk was originally given to a chapter of the UXPA in the Triangle area of North Carolina, ...

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