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Nikki Moeschinger

DisciplinesBrand, Design Operations, Graphic Design

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryMarketing

Nikki Moeschinger is Managing Director of the Australian operations of UK based...

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Kishya Greer

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design

TopicsAgile, Business Design, Communication, Creativity, Design Strategy

Owner of The Great Exhibition, an e-commerce packaging and branding design studio....

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Katie Swisher

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsCreativity, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Katie is a product manager for an app development company specializing in web and...

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Vanessa Dewey

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Leadership

Throughout her career, Vanessa has been driven by three things: cultures,...

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Heather Toler

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Design Operations, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Communication, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship

IndustryTechnology

With international Graphic and Web Design clients, Heather Toler is a creative whose...

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Megan Kaczanowski

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsCareer, Communication, Security

Megan Kaczanowski is a Threat Intelligence Analyst at S&P Global....

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Roxanne Mustafa

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsAgile, Business Design, Communication, Community, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Lean, Storytelling

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

She finds it rewarding to apply design thinking to all parts of her life, from making and...

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Shayna Hodkin

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Privilege, Storytelling

Shayna's Managing Editor of the InVision blog, a design blog with over 2,5m subscribers....

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Amanda Serfozo

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Content Strategy, Game Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAgile, AR/VR, Business Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Methodology, Product Development, Service Design, Storytelling, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Amanda Serfozo is a Sr. UX/IA Content Strategist at Capital One in Richmond, Va. With...

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Rinat Sherzer

DisciplinesEngineering, Immersive Experience Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Service Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability

Social Entrepreneur, founder at Of Course Global, Professor at Parsons, TEDx Speaker...

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Stephanie Thoma

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Social Networks

IndustryMarketing

Stephanie Thoma is an IRL Connection Enthusiast, Director of PR for the Young...

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Mithula Naik

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Mithula Naik is a Senior Design Researcher at the Canadian Digital Service (CDS), a...

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Lauryn Morris

DisciplinesIndustrial Design, Product Design

TopicsAR/VR, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Product Development

IndustriesFashion, Technology

Lauryn was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business in 2017....

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Catherine Ho

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCareer, Data, Design Strategy, Lean, Product Development, Service Design, Web & Mobile

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

LocationSeattle, WA, USA

Catherine is a Senior Product Designer creating data software for the public sector and government agencies at Socrata (now part of Tyler Technologies). Previously, she was Senior UX designer at REI working on mobile POS systems for retail employees in a store context, the e-commerce site’s online accounts, and marketing campaigns such as Force of Nature. Prior to REI, Catherine was primarily a user researcher, working on Intuit's 5-star iOS app Snap Payroll and at Bolt Peters, the late leading firm in...

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Alysha Naples

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Immersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAR/VR, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Installation & Curation, Leadership, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Technology

Experiences must support people and their dreams — in whichever reality they choose....

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Rethinking Service Delivery

DisciplineArchitecture

TopicsService Design

Speaker Laura Weiss

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Jane Austin

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Lean, Methodology, Product Development, Service Design, Teamwork

IndustryHealthcare

Currently Director of Product Design at Babylon Health...

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Designing Your Way Through Failure

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Leadership

Speaker Sara Ortloff Khoury

How do you use design to not just benefit business but help you master your own...

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Bo Vandersteene

DisciplinesArchitecture, Engineering, Front-end Engineering

TopicsAccessibility, IoT, JavaScript

Bo is a software engineer currently living in Belgium. She likes writing code and...

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When algorithms fail in our personal lives

DisciplinesArt, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Social Networks

Speaker Caroline Sinders

“Social Media Break Up Coordinator“ is a performance art piece and lecture...

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Doreen Lorenzo

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Thinking, Leadership

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Healthcare, Technology

Doreen Lorenzo is a successful leader of global creative firms; as the former...

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What to Build First: Designing MVP With Scenarios

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Thinking, Innovation, Lean, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Tatiana Kolesnikova

Practical implementation of Lean Business and human-oriented design principles in developm...

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The AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsStorytelling

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Speaker Robin Hunicke

Robin Hunicke sits down with Insomniac Games' Ted Price to talk about building...

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Stacy Devino

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, Design Thinking, Innovation, IoT, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Android , IoT, Organizing, and Women in Tech speaker...

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Styleguide-Driven Development

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Interface

TopicsDesign Systems, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Tatiana Kolesnikova

The old-school way of building interfaces screen by screen or page by page is slow, full of mistakes and results in a product that is difficult to maintain and takes forever to change. Style guide driven development is creating not a set of screens or pages, but a design system, a unified visual language of the product. It is also a collaboration workflow for designers and developers that increases the speed and eliminates waste and misunderstanding. More and more companies publish their design systems...

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