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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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Manisha Gupta

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsAccessibility, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Storytelling, Typography, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTelecommunications

LocationBangalore, Karnataka, India

Manisha is a product enthusiast, a visionary designer and passionate about simplifying complexity to create a human-centred world powered by design. User empathy is her biggest tool and she uses her power of storytelling to build narratives that are most candid and go deep to build the product human connect through design. As a Design Lead at Adobe Express and Adobe Color, Manisha holds the Color charter for all horizontal apps and Adobe's emerging web products. In addition to her previous experience as...

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Charmie Shah

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design, Motion & Animation

TopicsCreativity

IndustryAdvertising

NYC-based award-winning creative director & designer, embracing vulnerability for growth....

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DesignOps Curious? Learn about the Fundamentals of Design’s Secret Sauce

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Culture

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Rachel Posman

Come learn about the role that is the secret sauce of so many design teams: DesignOps...

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Sophie Tahran

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Sophie Tahran is the Director of Content Design at Condé Nast. After establishing...

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Go Beyond

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion

Speaker Glenda Watson Hyatt

Glenda Watson Hyatt shares a life changing fear in this amazing...

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Mary Alcantara

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsEntrepreneurship, Innovation

IndustryFinance

Innovation and entrepreneurship expert with startup and corporate experience...

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Ramblings of a Designer: Episode 91

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Natalie Dunbar

Ramblings of a Designer Podcast Ep 91, feat. Natalie Dunbar, Enterprise Content Strategist...

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Raffaella Isidori

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion

A creative polymath consultant, with 30+ yrs of experience...

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Cheryl Heller @ PopTech 2012

DisciplineBrand

TopicsSocial Innovation

Speaker Cheryl Heller

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SVG Beyond Mere Shapes

DisciplinesEngineering, Front-end Engineering, User Interface

TopicsData, Visual Thinking

Speaker Nadieh Bremer

How SVG can do so much more than just create nice shapes inside a data visualization...

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Annalisa Nash Fernandez

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Robotics & AI, Social Networks

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

Global strategy executive turned linguist at the intersection of technology and culture....

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Collaging: Getting Answers to the Questions You Don’t Know to Ask

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

EventConveyUX

Speaker Kyle Soucy

When conducting user research, we all know asking the right questions is just as important as how you ask them, but how do you even know what questions to ask? What if the discussion topic is extremely personal and private? How do you get a complete stranger to open up to you? There is a better way to conduct an in-depth interview and it doesn’t involve using a clipboard. Just imagine what you could discover if the participant’s answers weren’t limited to a predetermined set of ...

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