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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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Kanchana Muralidhar

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Location7042 Celtic Crossing Drive, Plain City, OH, USA

Have been in the IT industry for 20yrs -started as a developer to Six Sigma black belt to program manager to Agile coach. Got introduced to Design Thinking two years before and fell in love with it. Currently, I head the Design Thinking practice of LTI in North America bringing in digital transformation and enhance customer centricity. I have successfully conducted about 2 dozen design projects- across different domains and practices in this venture. I like to speak about why what and how of Design...

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Deb Mrazek

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

With over 35 years of experience creating and driving design strategy, Deb strives to...

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Creating Forms that Users Won’t Hate

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsCSS, HTML, Web & Mobile

Speaker Clarissa Peterson

In this session, you'll learn the correct way to write the HTML for a form to make...

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Lacey Wilson

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustriesEducation, Healthcare, Nonprofit

Lacey engages individuals in conversations that empower and transform communication....

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Design to Ignite — Design sprints for transformation at scale

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience

TopicsAgile, Leadership, Teamwork

Speaker Tomomi Sasaki

Push the limits of #IxD by embracing #complexity and pursuing rapid #transformation....

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Jill Kunishima

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Community, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryNonprofit

Stemming from a strong passion for equity and justice, Jill has spent the past 14...

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Say the Right Thing: VUI Design Ethics

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Voice UI

Speaker Diana Deibel

Ethical considerations when designing voice experiences...

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Joy Davis

DisciplinesArt, Fashion

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Installation & Curation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Fashion

Joy Davis is an independent scholar of fashion and cultural studies. She has B.A.s in...

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Speaking Design: Better requirements to get better design

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCommunication, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Audrey Crane

Learn to find the sweetspot between requirements that are too broad, or too specific. ...

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Content Against Cancer

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsMethodology

Speaker Ida Aalen

Find PDF downloads of the core model sheets here: http://bit.ly/core-model The...

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Amira El-Gawly

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCulture, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

Amira El-Gawly is the founder of Manifesta, a culture-first agency that designs...

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Sensemaking Lessons

DisciplineInformation Architecture

TopicsLeadership

Speaker Abby Covert

The following is a talk I delivered on October 28, 2020 at the Annual Federal Plain Language ...

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