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Tana Green

DisciplinesArchitecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Agile, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Environment, Installation & Curation, IoT, Service Design, Storytelling, Sustainability, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Lead UXUI Designer / Researcher at AIM Consulting Group | analysis, planning, design...

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Naomi Hattaway

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsAccessibility, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Culture, Disability, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Social Networks

IndustriesGovernment, Marketing, Nonprofit

Naomi is passionate about community building, diversity, and accessibility....

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Jessa Parette

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsData, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling

Jessa is a leader who connects technology and strategy with intentional design. She...

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Gulyuz Abdukholikova

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design

TopicsDesign Thinking

I’m Guly, UX designer who is passionate about taking the user experience to a next...

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Tina Gada

DisciplinesEngineering, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustriesFinance, Retail, Technology

I’m Tina Gada ( She/ Her ) Sr. Ux/Ui Designer from Dallas, passionate to enhance...

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Ana Costa

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsDisability

Ana is a disabled woman. She is an engineer passionate about fighting climate change...

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Carol Scott

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Ethics

Carol is a trauma and research expert. She has been applying trauma-informed...

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SHILPA SURESH BABU

DisciplinesArchitecture, Interior Design

TopicsDesign Thinking, Storytelling

IndustryArts & Entertainment

A self described "Cultural Chameleon", Shilpa was born and raised in India spent most...

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Heidi Brown

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

Heidi Brown, is a proven leader in the area of cross-channel customer experience...

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Lyn Barrett

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsTeamwork

IndustryTechnology

Lyn finds joy in coaching teams from creation to delivery. She has worked in...

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Shauna Keating

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Front-end Engineering, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, CSS, Design Systems

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

design engineer specializing in accessibility and deisign systems...

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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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Stacey Edelstein

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

Stacey discovered her passion for storytelling and design while serving as the...

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Theresa Bassett

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Content Strategy, Product Design, Sales

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Design Strategy, Design Thinking

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing

As CEO of The Diamond Group, I get to do what I love best: grow companies....

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Sucheta Rawal

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Storytelling

IndustryEducation

Sucheta Rawal is an award-winning food & travel writer, founder of Go Eat Give, and author...

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Karren Knowlton

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Communication, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryEducation

Ph.D. organizational psychologist with expertise in motivation, leadership, and DEI....

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Kritika Kushwaha

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Sustainability

IndustryTechnology

Kritika is an award winning Product Designer and Illustrator based in San Francisco...

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Laura Kalbag

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Communication, Design Strategy, Ethics, JavaScript, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Laura Kalbag is a British designer, developer, writer and speaker living in Ireland....

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Alexandra Fiorillo

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Leadership, Social Innovation

Alexandra is the Founder and CEO of GRID Impact, a social impact design Collective that specializes in behavioral research and design. She has directed behavioral research and human centered design projects and led multi-disciplinary teams across Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America for many foundation, social enterprise, nonprofit, humanitarian and government organization partners. Alexandra is particularly passionate about applying human centered design, behavioral science and innovative...

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Jardley Jean-Louis

DisciplinesArt, Motion & Animation

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Illustration, Visual Thinking

Jardley Jean-Louis is an artist, animator and filmmaker from Queens, NYC. They are a...

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Overcoming the Challenges of Mentoring

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsCareer, Leadership

Speaker Kim Crayton

Successful mentoring doesn’t just happen, it’s planned. Let’s talk about what...

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Lauren Celenza

DisciplinesArt, Content Strategy, Immersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Privilege, Storytelling

IndustryTechnology

Designer, writer, educator...

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Let the Love Flow (or Build the Love)

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, Graphic Design, Industrial Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Communication, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management & Strategy

Speaker Emily Cohen

Infusing love across all aspects of your business is important to your long-term success. ...

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Jennifer Daniel

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCulture, Data, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Illustration, Typography

IndustryTechnology

Jennifer Daniel is a designer, humorist, and regular contributor to the New Yorker...

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Holistic UX

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Vicki Tan

imgix recently chatted with Jacob Thornton, Vicki Tan, and Bryn Jackson about...

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Erin Pinkley

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCreativity, Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Erin runs the Brand Team at Zendesk....

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The secrets data won’t tell you

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Development

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology

Speaker Vicki Tan

It’s become standard to lean on quantitative, experiment-driven design, especially...

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Designing a Design System

DisciplinesBrand, Design Operations, User Experience

TopicsCSS, Design Strategy, Design Systems

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Jina Anne

Product design for web and mobile is evolving at a fast pace. As the range of devices...

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Bindu Upadhyay

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Service Design

Passionate about people, their behaviour, and the ecosystems in which they interact....

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‘Tidying Up’ Design

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Thinking

EventMidwestUX

Speaker Bella Olszewski

Marie Kondo's 'Tidying up' has hit Netflix and the internet by storm. This talk will explore how we can apply her methodology to create clean, functional IAs and designs. The talk will also explore how we can use her 'spark joy' philosophy to help clients (internal or external) and ourselves think about our content and navigation in a different way. The talk also recommends tools and tactics for applying her framework in your ...

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