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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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Ashley Worobec

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Business, Graphic Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Regenerative Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability

Ashley Worobec is a multidisciplinary designer and strategist for systems change,...

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Kalina Tyrkiel

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Service Design, Taxonomy

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology

Content designer by trade, psychologist by training, UX writing consultant, trainer,...

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Mitu Mathur

DisciplinesArchitecture, Industrial Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

Mitu Mathur is an accomplished architect and urban designer with extensive experience...

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Asha Sairam

DisciplinesArchitecture, Interaction Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

Asha Sairam is a Principal at Studio Lotus, a New Delhi-based multidisciplinary...

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Priyanka Singh

DisciplinesInterior Design, Product Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

Priyanka Singh is the Director at VO Living, an exquisite furniture and lifestyle...

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Olga Vinokurova

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Creativity, Design Strategy, Innovation, Methodology, Storytelling

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

Olga Vinokurova is a Senior Art Director based in Venice, California. She spent the...

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Nina Jurcic

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Multidisciplinary designer and product design leader (Product, Design Systems, DesignOps)...

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Roberta Dombrowski

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

A former research and learning leader at User Interviews, edX, Pluralsight, and the...

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Farissa Knox

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion

Farissa Knox is a Chicago based author, producer, and 20 year marketing executive....

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Christy Schaefer

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Leadership, Management & Strategy

Design executive with a track record of building and leading world-class design...

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Margaret Kessie

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Margaret is a UX Researcher with a strong qualitative background. She resonates...

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Adi Cohen

DisciplineArchitecture

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability

A nomadic architect and the founder of The New Movement on a mission to help people thrive...

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Sonal Shintre

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCreativity

Sonal Gadre-Shintre is an award-winning graphic designer and founder...

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AmyJune Hineline

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Community, Disability, Product Development

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

AmyJune Hineline is the Senior Community Manager at Opensource.com....

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Jillian Bejtlich

DisciplinesData Science, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Data, Design Thinking, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Community leader focused on the intersection of data, design, and behavior....

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Warisha Soomro

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Culture

Warisha is an impact-driven product designer with a background as a design lead at a...

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Anupriya Sahu

DisciplinesFurniture, Product Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

Anupriya Sahu is one of the Co-Founders of and Design Head at Alankaram, an...

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Veevi Rosenstein

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Design Strategy, Lean, Methodology

IndustryTechnology

LocationAlameda, CA USA

Aviva "Veevi" Rosenstein began researching how people use technology during the earliest days of the Web, and joined her first startup in 2000. By 2005, she was creating and sharing how to conduct user research in Agile development contexts, helping designers and product developers understand and empathize with the people who buy and use their technology. Aviva’s teams have helped launch hundreds of features for dozens of successful cloud services, including media portals, social networking sites,...

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Div Manickam

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Creativity, Culture, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Methodology, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Inspire. Influence. Impact. stress and anxiety | diversity and belonging | mindfulness...

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Connecting the Digital + the Physical @ Uber

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design

TopicsLeadership

Speaker Dana Bright

In this talk, we will talk about shaping the vision to solve for Uber’s riders...

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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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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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Stéphanie Walter

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Creativity, CSS, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, HTML, Service Design, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Leas UX Designer, Mobile Expert, Speaker, Writer, #GDE Product Design and Web Technology...

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(French) L’UX au service de la performance de vos interfaces

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy

Speaker Stéphanie Walter

The French version of my talk on UX and Design techniques to enhance perceived performance...

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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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Just “Make it Pretty”

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

Speaker Audrey Crane

When someone asks you to just "make it pretty" -- recognizing and reacting gracefully!...

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Computer Engineer Barbie: How Interaction Design can Entice a New Generation of Women

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Innovation

IndustryEducation

Speaker Cheryl Platz

In this talk, we explore how interaction design outreach during secondary school and...

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Alexandra Renee Poelstra

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Teamwork, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit, Technology

Christ Warrior. Mama. Intellectual Creative. Tech Lover. CEO & Executive of Things....

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Why Do We All Suck at Collaboration

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Teamwork

EventMidwestUX

Speaker Karen VanHouten

Collaboration is the keystone of successful innovation. And many teams THINK they have a collaborative culture. They share their work, solicit and incorporate feedback, iterate with team members–all activities we associate with a collaborative work process. And still, many teams struggle to generate truly impactful ideas, or to actually build products from those ideas and deliver something valuable to customers. Despite best intentions, they can’t seem to get to a deep, effective level of ...

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