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Leah Ujda

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

TopicsAgile, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Service Design, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Leah leads the Service Design and User Experience teams at Widen Enterprises, a...

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Deanna Ballew

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Deanna joined Widen in 2004 with a focus on research & development activities and...

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Yina Smith-Danenhower

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

Yina is a Conversational Product Designer at XAPP AI, she speaks about design and AI....

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Lea Stewart

DisciplineIndustrial Design

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Methodology, Product Development

From her 20 years of experience, Lea can tell you that the common theme to winning...

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Margaret Lee

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Design Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCommunication, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Margaret is a coach, mentor, and leader in Tech....

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Weina Li

DisciplinesArchitecture, Interior Design

TopicsCommunication, Community, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

Weina Li was born and grew up in China. She immigrated to the US at the age of 20,...

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Rachael Silvano

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Community

IndustryEducation

Greetings! Rachael is a Community Manager hat wearer for over five years. Over her...

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Lorraine Lee

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Communication, Leadership, Social Networks, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Lorraine is the Editorial Director at Prezi and was formerly an editor at LinkedIn....

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Rachele DiTullio

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, HTML, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Rachele is gender non-binary and uses the pronouns she/her. Rachele believes in...

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Ana Peralta

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Methodology, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Senior UX Designer, UX Strategist, CSPO, Latina/BIPOC working in Technology sector...

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Kamala Alcantara

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsAgile, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Kamala is obsessed with designing user experiences that deliver WOW-worthy moments....

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Mallory Roth

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Taxonomy

IndustryTechnology

Mallory is a librarian and content designer in the tech industry, based in Oakland....

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Sanjukta Das

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Community, Creativity, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Innovation

Creative Lead, Dalberg Design Sanjukta is a Creative Lead at Dalberg Design...

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Sonja Kuijpers

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Data, Illustration, Methodology, Social Networks, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

Sonja Kuijpers runs STUDIO TERP, her one-woman information graphics studio based in...

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Crystal Szabo

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCreativity, Innovation, Leadership, SEO, Taxonomy, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Crystal serves as the website user advocate....

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Toni Brown

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

Toni S. Brown is a versatile Brand Strategist, Creative Director, Speaker, &...

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Ashley Doucette

DisciplinesArt, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Systems, Illustration, Innovation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Ashley Doucette is a Digital Product Design leader with 15+ years of experience....

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Kavita Singh

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Kavita works in the interdisciplinary field of web strategy at NVIDIA. She leverages...

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Alana Washington

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Data, Diversity & Inclusion, Service Design, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Alana Washington is a design leader, strategist, and researcher. Currently, she’s a senior design program manager at Uber Freight. She’s driven by an innate curiosity to help others solve the unsolvable and to create solutions for people that genuinely impact their daily...

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B. Pagels-Minor

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Management

TopicsAgile, Business Strategy, Career, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

B. is a native of Mississippi who relocated to the Silicon Valley in 2018 from...

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Cassandra Gibson

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Agile, Creativity, Design Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Cassy is a UX designer in the healthcare space...

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Vivian Acquah

DisciplinesArchitecture, Brand, Business, Content Strategy, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Sustainability, Teamwork

IndustryEducation

I advise organisations with keeping their employees healthy, happy & safe....

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De Nichols

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Installation & Curation, Social Innovation, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Government

De Nichols is a social practice designer who address racial injustices...

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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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Computer Engineer Barbie: How Interaction Design can Entice a New Generation of Women

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Innovation

IndustryEducation

EventIXDA Interaction

Speaker Cheryl Platz

In this talk, we explore how interaction design outreach during secondary school and early university years can better inspire prolonged interest in computer science amongst women and men alike. This talk explores trends in computing education, and suggests specific outreach activities to use interaction design to provide the missing link of social context to early computer science studies. Why is it that computer science curricula in the United States have such a hard time attracting and keeping ...

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