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Piccia Neri

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Thinking, Methodology, Typography, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

After 20 years in London Piccia Neri currently runs her own global UX & design...

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Ana Sofia Gonzalez

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAR/VR, Career, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Ana Sofia is a Senior Designer at Microsoft. She delights in democratizing innovative...

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Yanci Wu

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAgile, Career, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Environment, Ethics, Lean, Methodology, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustriesAdvertising, Technology

Born and raised in China, Yanci is currently an awarding-winning Experience Designer...

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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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Laneice McGee

DisciplinesBrand, Business

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Creativity, Leadership, Teamwork

The lady who feels pride in having assisted a thousand lives through their career...

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Rachel Ceasar

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Innovation, Service Design, Storytelling

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology

Medical Anthropologist and UX researcher at the intersection of health, tech, design....

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Elaine Gómez

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

Elaine is a Puerto Rican game designer, developer, and co-founder of Latinx in Gaming....

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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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Erin O’Bannon

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Communication, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Methodology, Privilege, Robotics & AI, Teamwork

International UX Consultant facilitating shared understanding and increasing opportunity....

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Elisabeth Chin

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Culture, Service Design, Social Innovation

Elisabeth advocates for empathy as a service designer, researcher, and facilitator,...

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Su Oguya

DisciplinesBusiness, Interaction Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Susan is a Senior UX Designer at Amazon with 8+ years of experience in the field of...

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Rannie Teodoro

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Privilege, Product Development, Social Networks, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Rannie Teodoro, Ph.D., is the Head of Design at Thumbtack....

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Carrie Andersen

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryRetail

Carrie Andersen is a Senior Content Strategy Manager in the Experience Design...

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Daniela Jorge

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Daniela Jorge is the Vice President of Global Design and User Research at PayPal...

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Breanna DiBella

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Visual Thinking

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing

Breanna DiBella is a strategic thinker, designer, creative director & business owner....

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Yaprak Gultay

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsLeadership

IndustryTechnology

Yaprak Gültay is a recognized visual communications designer, currently working as a...

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Claudia Love

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Claudia is Head of User Experience at the Cloud Security group at Cisco. She has 12+...

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Theresa dela Cruz

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design, Sales

TopicsCommunication, Methodology, Typography

Typographic Enabler, SOTA Vice Chair, TypeCon Organizer, Content Creator + Strategist...

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Jeannie Huang

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

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Management & Strategy, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

LocationNew York, New York, USA

Jeannie Huang is a product designer, botanical artist, and photographer (and all-around creativity enthusiast). She currently serves as a Senior Product Designer for Behance at Adobe. Jeannie's passion is to empower creatives to get the exposure their work deserves so they can build their creative career. Alongside her role at Adobe, Jeannie is a photographer and floral designer whose work has been featured in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue Italia, and other publications. You can follow her @jeanniehuang on...

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B. Pagels-Minor

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsAgile, Business Strategy, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

B. is a native of Mississippi who relocated to the Silicon Valley in 2018 from...

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De Nichols

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Installation & Curation, Social Innovation, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Government

De Nichols mobilizes global changemakers to activate ideas that address civic issues....

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Vivian Acquah

DisciplinesArchitecture, Brand, Business, Content Strategy, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Sustainability, Teamwork

IndustryEducation

Vivian helps organisations with keeping their employees healthy, happy & safe....

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Morag Johnston

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Management & Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Morag Johnston has a love of building teams who are passionate about delivering exceptiona...

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Alana Washington

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Data, Diversity & Inclusion, Service Design, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

Alana Washington is a design leader, strategist, and researcher. Currently, she’s a...

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Helping researchers do their best work. How Research Ops can help.

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsLeadership

EventNUX

Speaker Emma Boulton

Helping researchers do their best work. How Research Ops can help. In 2018, the Research Ops Slack community (@TeamReOps) undertook a global adventure with the #WhatIsResearchOps project culminating in the Research Ops Framework. As the definition and framework has been shared at conferences and meet ups, we’ve been asked a lot of questions such as, ‘how does this work in practice?’ and ‘how do I get started?’. In short, we’ve realised that it depends. You first need to understand what’s ...

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