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Lea Alcantara

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership

Design leader with a solid track record of directing successful outcomes on a broad...

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Julee Lee

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

A designer, leader and educator, Julee has over 20 years of experience in crafting...

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Stella Guan

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Interior Design, Product Design

TopicsAdobe XD, Career, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Typography, Web & Mobile

IndustryEducation

Stella Guan is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer, creative director,...

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Kelsey Scherer

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Leadership, Management & Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Kelsey is the head of Product Design & UX Research at BuzzFeed. She currently...

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Emily Parcell

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations

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

IndustryTechnology

A former UX manager, Emily coaches clients to apply design skills to leadership challenges...

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Sarah Johnson

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsDesign Strategy

Sarah Johnson is an Assoc. Sr. Manager of Content Strategy at CVS and teaches content...

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Rachel Mechanik

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Immersive Experience Design, Interaction Design

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Privilege, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesEducation, Nonprofit, Technology

Learning experience designer with a passion for DEI, nonprofit work, and learning culture....

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Allanna Harris

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

Allanna is a User Experience Leader with over 20 years’ hands-on experience driving...

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Leigh Allen-Arredondo

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Communication, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

UX leadership coach, teacher, speaker and podcast host with over 20 years as a UX leader...

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Michelle Chin

DisciplineProduct Design

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

IndustryTechnology

DesignOps, design systems, management, career coach for underrepresented people in tech....

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Stephanie Melodia

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Business, Content Strategy, Graphic Design, Sales

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Creativity, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Illustration, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Social Networks, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing, Technology

Bloom CEO, Time to Bloom podcast host, public speaker, & gender equality thought leader....

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Lachmee Chin

DisciplineInterior Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems

Accomplished interior design professional with over 15 years of experience...

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Tiffany Michelle

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAR/VR, Career, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Robotics & AI, Web & Mobile

IndustryRetail

Tiffany is a digital product designer at Casper where she works on product-led and...

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Therese Mushock

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAR/VR, Communication, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Social Networks, Storytelling, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Therese Mushock leads product design for Facebook’s Navigation teams in Menlo Park,...

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Shona Dennis

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Environment, Leadership, Storytelling, Teamwork

She is a US Army War Veteran, Married mother of 3, Published Author, Holder of 2...

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Vanessa Grant

DisciplinesBusiness, Information Architecture, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

As soon Vanessa Grant hears about a process, she starts mentally optimizing it. ...

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Vijika Bansal

DisciplinesArt, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Design Systems, Web & Mobile

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Technology

I love to talk about design and art, and sharing my ideas with people....

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Merril Cledera

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Graphic Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking

Merril is a multi-awarded art director and graphic designer based in Manhattan. She...

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Alana Washington

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Design, User Experience

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

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Alana Washington is a design leader, strategist, and researcher. Currently, she’s a senior design program manager at Uber Freight. She’s driven by an innate curiosity to help others solve the unsolvable and to create solutions for people that genuinely impact their daily...

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B. Pagels-Minor

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Management

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

IndustryTechnology

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

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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

I advise organisations with keeping their employees healthy, happy & safe....

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Beatie Wolfe

DisciplinesArt, Immersive Experience Design, Product Design

TopicsAR/VR, Communication, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Installation & Curation, Social Innovation, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Nonprofit, Technology

Wolfe is a musician and innovator at the forefront of pioneering new formats for music....

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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 is a social practice designer who address racial injustices...

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Lindsay McGaan

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Taxonomy, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Senior content & design manager at Capital One. More organized than is probably healthy....

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World IA Day Keynote: Empowerment in an Era of Self Validating Facts

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCommunication, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Typography, Visual Thinking

IndustryMarketing

EventWorld IA Day

Speaker Margot Bloomstein

Margot Bloomstein gives the opening keynote at World IA Day Boston 2018. As we wrangle with the focus of World IA Day, "IA for good," we should start by asking: what does it mean to be good in the context of IA, user experience, content strategy, and design? In this post-fact era, does the truth matter--and does good matter? It does--not in how we shift our loyalties, but in how our users shift their instincts. Inconsistency affects us and destroys trust--in brands, governments, wisdom, and ourselves. The ...

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