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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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Tami Evnin

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAgile, Business Design, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Tami Evnin is an experienced design director with demonstrated history of working in enterprise and financial services. She is currently Manager of Product Design at Devbridge Group, a digital consultancy in Chicago, where she evangelizes the design discipline within the product team and with senior stakeholders at client organizations.Prior to joining Devbridge Group, she served as Director of Portfolio Design Strategy at Nasdaq, where her team changed the way the fintech leader builds products. She...

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Sam Yuen

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Game Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Minding the messy middle....

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New on the Job: Your First 90 Days in a Design Leadership Role

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsLeadership, Management & Strategy

Speaker Andrea Mignolo

What to do in your first 90 days in a design leadership role!...

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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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Our Eternal (Digital) Afterlife

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCulture, Robotics & AI, Social Networks, Storytelling

Speaker Alberta Soranzo

What losing a partner in my twenties taught me about death and memory in the digital...

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Andrea Mignolo

DisciplinesBusiness, Interaction Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

Executive and Team Coach...

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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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Nicole Gallardo

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Methodology, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustriesEducation, Marketing

3 x founder • Helping other women founders in tech design the right product ...

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Voice of Design Podcast

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsDesign Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Stephanie Lucas

Invited to be a guest on SF's Mule Design Studio "Voice of Design" podcast to talk...

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UX research & ethnographic design for humanitarian technology.

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Community, Culture, Methodology, Product Development

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

Speaker Eriol Fox

UX design and field research in humanitarian technology space....

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Beatrice Ungard, Ph.D.

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Design, Community, Environment, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Regenerative Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability

Beatrice is the founder of Soma Integral Consulting, a firm with a mission to address...

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ProductTank: Using Discovery Methods to Create Products People Actually Want

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Thinking, Innovation, Lean, Methodology, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Jenny Shirey

Too often, we make things that are we think are beautiful and user-friendly, but they fall flat when they are released into the world. How do we ensure we don’t waste time creating products and features that no one wants to use? As a UX leader and consultant, Jenny has worked with Product Managers and engineers to help teams build less features while creating more business value. In this 20-minute talk, Jenny introduced attendees to Product Discovery, a process to help teams build less features while ...

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