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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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Abby Covert

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Taxonomy, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

LocationMelbourne, Florida, USA

Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. In addition to being an active mentor to those new to sensemaking, she has also served the design community as President of the Information Architecture Institute, co-chair of Information Architecture Summit, and Executive Producer of the I.D.E.A Conference. Abby is a founding faculty member of School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design graduate program. She...

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Karen Reilly

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

Karen Reilly is a UX Design Manager at Workday where she manages two product teams...

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Design rituals to unlock your teams’ potential

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Leadership

Speaker Nina Jurcic

How might we turn a bunch of individuals into a well-performing team using design rituals...

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Roxanne Nicolussi

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Robotics & AI

Roxi is an entrepreneurial design strategist and speaker. She is fascinated by the...

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TV is dead, long live TV! Crafting compelling living room experiences

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Landscape Architecture, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Innovation, IoT

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Molly Lafferty

Linear TV watching may be dead and gone, but we’re just getting started in thinking about ...

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Rebecca Searles

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Robotics & AI, Social Networks, Storytelling

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Journalist and product manager focused on news and storytelling innovation...

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ProjectUX Episode 2: UX for startups

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCommunication, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Bibiana Nunes

ProjectUX is the UX Show for startups. On this episode UXperts Bibiana Nunes, Jared...

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Oonie Chase

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

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Leadership, Service Design

Oonie Chase is a fearlessly optimistic design leader who has been crossing the...

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Party of One: Surviving The Corporate Jungle As A Solo UX Practitioner

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer

Speaker Whitney Hess

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Making the Right Turn: Career development for unplanners

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer

Speaker Abi Jones

Stop making a 5-year-plan. Start planning for what's next....

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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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Information Architecture for Science Gateways

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Research

TopicsAccessibility

IndustriesEducation, Technology

EventAcademia

Speaker Noreen Whysel

Introduction to information architecture at science gateways in higher learning institutions, the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) and other communities of practice in high performance computing. Presented at the 2020 City Tech Computational and Data Science Conference, CUNY New York City College of Technology. Featured recent research in accessibility compliance in life sciences gateways at SGCI, accessibility and information architecture practices and how to get involved with the gateways ...

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