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Maca Baigorria

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship

Maca is an experienced design consultant with a passion to understand why people do...

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Sabrina Hall

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Typography, Web & Mobile

Sabrina Hall is an interdisciplinary art director with a love for storytelling and...

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Eriol Fox

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAR/VR, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Web & Mobile

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

Eriol is a non-binary, queer, designer at Ushahidi, a humanitarian, non-profit tech org....

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Laura Pasquini

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Creativity, Design Thinking, Methodology, Social Networks, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Laura A. Pasquini is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Learning...

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Natalie Hanson

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Business Strategy, Career, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Natalie Hanson is a Principal and partner at ZS, where she built and now leads the...

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Jessica Brown

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design, User Interface

TopicsCreativity, Storytelling

IndustryAdvertising

As Creative Director, Jess oversees the digital creative process from idea to execution....

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Rachel Simanjuntak

DisciplinesArt, Graphic Design

TopicsCommunity, Creativity

Rachel Simanjuntak is an artist and designer born and raised in Los Angeles,...

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Karishma Kusurkar

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Product Design, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Security, Social Innovation, Storytelling, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Multidisciplinary designer and serial collaborator....

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Meghan Lazier

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Policy, Social Innovation

IndustryGovernment

Meghan Lazier helps build better policy, programs and services across federal government....

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Lisa Roach

DisciplineBack-end Engineering

TopicsData

IndustryTechnology

Lisa is currently a Production Engineer on the Python Foundation at Facebook....

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Meredith Black

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCareer, Communication, Culture, Design Thinking, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

Meredith Black is the Head of Design Operations at Pinterest where she manages the...

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Brie Tabios

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

Visual Storyteller, Art Director, Briezy Bloomer...

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Sarah Hyndman

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Data, Design Strategy, Innovation, Methodology, Storytelling, Typography

Fun talks about typography and perception with lashings of audience participation...

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Peck Ying Tan

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Content Strategy, Industrial Design, Product Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Community, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Teamwork

IndustriesHealthcare, Retail

A passionate problem solver - PSLove is her way of powering and supporting women globally....

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Samantha Yuen

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

Design research lead serving 40+ design researchers & UX designers in government....

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Eva PenzeyMoog

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Privilege, Security, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Eva PenzeyMoog is a designer and advocate for inclusive safety....

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Angela Pham

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Leadership, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Angela Pham is a storyteller, strategist and UX writer at Facebook....

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Yulia Piterkina

DisciplinesArchitecture, Interior Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Thinking

IndustryRetail

Yulia is a self-taught designer and decorator with a keen eye; interior photographer;...

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Lauren Ruiz

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, IoT, Service Design, Social Innovation, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Healthcare, Technology

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Lauren Ruiz is a lead designer with both consulting and in-house experience, and a passion for healthcare and education. Whether it’s product strategy for digital devices, mobile apps, software, or cross-channel services, she applies a broad range of human-centered methodologies to shape powerful and satisfying experiences. She is currently a UX Lead at John Muir Health, a not-for-profit health system in the Bay Area of California, where she defines the user experience of John Muir Health's digital...

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Brooke Baldwin

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Research

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Methodology, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

With over 18 years’ experience as a UX researcher and designer, Brooke has worked...

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The Doodle Revolution

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsLean, Storytelling, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

Speaker Sunni Brown

Sunni Brown is the leader of The Doodle Revolution — a growing effort to debunk the...

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Sarah Fathallah

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Methodology, Service Design, Social Innovation

IndustryNonprofit

Sarah is a Moroccan social designer and researcher working in local and global development...

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From Buildings to Software – Paving the way to construction

DisciplineFront-end Engineering

TopicsJavaScript, Web & Mobile

Speaker Katerina Skroumpelou

As an architectural engineer by training, and working as a web dev for the past...

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Nicole Lazzaro

DisciplinesGame Design, User Research

TopicsAR/VR

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Nicole Lazzaro, Founder and President of XEODesign, Inc., has twenty years of...

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Meeting at the Intersection of Content Strategy and UX Design

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience

TopicsTeamwork

Speaker Marli Mesibov

Let’s talk about content strategy. Let’s talk about UX design. Let’s talk about...

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Brenda Laurel

DisciplinesGame Design, Interaction Design, User Interface, User Research

TopicsEntrepreneurship, Methodology

Brenda Laurel has worked in interactive media since 1976.She served as professor and...

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Design & The Self

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCareer, Culture, Leadership

IndustriesAutomotive, Fashion, Technology

Speaker Irene Au

Design has the power to shape how we think and feel. It’s also the tangible...

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Designing Content: how web designers can stop worrying and learn to love content strategy

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience

TopicsWeb & Mobile

Speaker Sophie Dennis

Sophie Dennis discusses why content and design are equally important to great user...

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Karen Cham

DisciplinesGame Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAR/VR, Data, Robotics & AI, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Karen Cham is currently a Professor of Digital Transformation Design at the...

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Stop Trying to Design Everything

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Social Networks

Event99U Conference

Speaker Jennifer Daniel

Social media puts an impossibly glossy shine on design, careers, and life in general. But let’s be real about that perfectly-put together construction of ourselves we’ve curated online, says New York Times graphics editor Jennifer Daniel. In this talk, Jennifer address failure in parenting as well as in design by asking: “Are people afraid that we can’t do it all?” Because the truth is, “well, we can’t do it...

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