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Jaskeerat Bedi

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Product Development, Robotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

Jaskeerat is a design leader with 10+ years’ of pioneering work in integrating...

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Yujin Han

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

With over 20 years of experience in Digital Design, Yujin specializes in building...

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Ana Nicolau

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Service Design

IndustriesAdvertising, Technology

Ana is a multidisciplinary Director of Experience & Product Design with 15+ years...

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Deana McDonagh

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Thinking, Disability, Innovation

IndustryEducation

Empathic Design Research Strategist who focuses on enhancing quality of life for all....

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Lisa Radecki

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Service Design, Visual Thinking

IndustryHealthcare

Lisa Yoshiko Radecki, MDes, believes that sustainable design depends upon...

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Chelsea Watson

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking

Chelsea Watson is a UX designer, experience strategist, design instructor, wannabe...

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Cynthia Juma Welinga

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, Data Science

TopicsEthics

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Cynthia is a software engineer based in New York City working as a backend engineer....

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Lisa Maione

DisciplinesGraphic Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Typography, Visual Thinking

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Lisa Maione is a designer, artist and educator....

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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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Barbara Holmes

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCommunication

IndustryEducation

Barbara Holmes Smith is the “masterful presenter”. Outgoing, transformative speaker/coach....

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Valerie Pegon

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

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

IndustryTechnology

Valérie is an experience designer, innovation strategist and product manager hybrid....

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Vidhya Sriram

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

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Leadership, Methodology, Service Design, Social Innovation

IndustryTechnology

I enable organizations to create valuable experiences that become the lever of...

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Holly Chasan-Young

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking

Holly Chasan-Young is an Advisor, Facilitator, Strategist and Coach who makes teams...

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Rachel Price

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Communication, Design Strategy, Methodology, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

Rachel Price is an information architect and user researcher. With a background in...

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Suzan Oslin

DisciplinesProduct Management, User Experience

TopicsAR/VR, Design Strategy, Leadership

As a computer graphics pioneer, Suzan Oslin began her career animating digital effects for...

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Tanu Malhotra

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsCulture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Social Innovation, Web & Mobile

IndustryFinance

Tanu is a User Experience Design Manager at IGM in Toronto, where she is working on...

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Shailvi Wakhlu

DisciplinesData Science, Engineering, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Culture, Data, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Privilege, Product Development, Storytelling

Shailvi is the Sr. Director of Data at a Sports Tech startup....

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Danielle Hennis

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Content Strategy, Data Science, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Creativity, Data, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

Danielle Hennis is a Presentation Consultant and Graphic Designer at Make It...

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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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SuAnne Hall

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Security, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

UX Product Architect who loves traveling & reading crappy young adult fiction...

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User Research for a Better Product

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Nadyne Richmond

Nadyne is a staff researcher at VMware. She started at VMware in November 2010. She...

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Lia Napolitano

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

TopicsAR/VR, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Ethics, Voice UI

IndustryTechnology

Designer at Oculus, 5 years at Apple and an ex-hired gun to Airbnb, Lyft and more....

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Hacking our way to an agile organization

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Culture, Leadership

IndustryGovernment

Speaker Tanya Snook

Explore practical hacking and how to hack work, teams, organizations, and ourselves....

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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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Leading Growth-Driven Design: Levers for sustained Growth

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Leadership

Speaker Chetana Deorah

Empowering the customer pact for high business impact Growing your product, business...

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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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Communicating in an Era of Self Validating Facts

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCommunication, Storytelling

Speaker Margot Bloomstein

The 2016 US presidential election was our latest reminder of this head-spinning...

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Accessibility in the Zendesk Design System

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAccessibility, Design Systems

Speaker Allison Shaw

Allison is a lead product designer at Zendesk, focused on design systems and accessibility...

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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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Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Using Competitors to do Better UX Research

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Methodology, Web & Mobile

EventUXPA

Speaker Kathi Kaiser

There are many ways to solve a design problem, but only so much time for testing and iteration. Fortunately, there’s a great source of alternative designs that can be reviewed, tested, debunked and borrowed from – thanks to your competitors. We’ll describe how to incorporate the designs of your rivals into research with users, drawing on case studies about everything from booking exotic vacations to planning your next movie night to piloting your sport yacht. You’ll come away with the means to ...

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