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Teresa Schmedding

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCommunication, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

Teresa Schmedding is a content marketer with expertise in digital strategy....

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Noreen Whysel

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Leadership, Policy, Privilege, Security, Service Design

Noreen is a designer who is fascinated by what happens at the edges of disciplines. ...

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Tanarra Schneider

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Management & Strategy, Privilege

Tanarra is a Managing Director in Accenture's Design and Innovation Practice, Fjord....

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Kat Zhou

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Robotics & AI, Security

IndustryTechnology

Product designer @IBM exploring how to @ethicallydesign in tech....

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Lily (Lalitha) Chandrasekher

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Lily is a user experience researcher, design strategy advocate, and educator...

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Mirella Marie

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

Mirella Marie is the founder and creative director of Vertigo, an internationally...

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Nina Krishnan

DisciplinesProduct Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Methodology, Social Innovation

IndustriesEducation, Finance

Nina is a digital product designer driven by a desire to design simple, end-to-end...

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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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Ran Liu

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsData, Design Strategy, Design Systems

Ran is a data-driven product designer who creates delightful user experiences through...

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Jessie Marman

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Web & Mobile

IndustriesAerospace, Technology

As a product designer, Jessie’s experiences span from working with small startups...

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Stacey Mendez

DisciplineIndustrial Design

TopicsCreativity

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Stacey is an experienced design leader with a history of working in product design....

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Stéphanie Walter

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Creativity, CSS, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, HTML, Service Design, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Senior UX Designer Mobile Expert, Speaker, Writer, #GDE Product Design...

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Christina Beard

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Leadership

IndustryHealthcare

A deep interest in solving real problems for real people inspired Christina to step...

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Kanchana Muralidhar

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Practice head North America: Digital transformation through Design thinking...

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Karen Cross

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Karen Cross is the Head of Content Design at Atlassian. ...

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Rachael Frank

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Agile, Creativity, Design Strategy, Management & Strategy, SEO, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

Rachael has been asking people hard questions for well over 15 years at this point....

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Capri LaRocca

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Environment, Ethics, Innovation, Lean, Service Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability, Visual Thinking

IndustriesEducation, Nonprofit, Technology

Capri LaRocca is a City Experience Manager at Minerva Schools where she designs...

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Lada Gorlenko

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Community, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

UX practitioner, manager, trainer, speaker, conference organizer, and community builder....

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Sonya Highfield

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Entrepreneurship

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Finance

LocationChestnut Hill, Newton, MA, USA

Sonya Highfield is a Boston born and bred entrepreneur dedicated to helping creative entrepreneurial women lead successful lives and run profitable businesses they love. She started her commercial and fine art photography business (Sonya Highfield Photography) in 2012 then founded Real World Creatives in 2015, where she provides intuitive business and mindset coaching to women as well as virtual communities and in-person workshops. As a speaker, Sonya provides inspirational speaking on wealth mindset at...

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Whitney Quesenbery

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility

IndustriesGovernment, Nonprofit

Whitney has a foot in two worlds: user experience research and civic design. As a...

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Leading Leads – Lessons from a growing team

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Experience

TopicsLeadership

Speaker Monika Piotrowicz

Leading a growing team is exciting – it means you’ve earned the trust to expand...

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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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Empathy and Innovation

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsInnovation, Social Innovation

Speaker Kate Canales

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Shelby Lindblad

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Thinking, Ethics, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Product Designer at Facebook...

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Understanding Client Dynamics

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Leadership

Speaker Morag Johnston

The stated goal of nearly every digital project is to deliver an outstanding digital...

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Katie McCurdy

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Design Strategy, Storytelling, Teamwork, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryHealthcare

Katie McCurdy is a User Experience Designer & Researcher focusing on healthcare,...

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Fake Ethnography vs Real Ethnography

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCulture

Speaker Veevi Rosenstein

Aviva Rosenstein, PhD, gave this talk at User Research Friday 2008...

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Listen with your heart

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer

Speaker Josephine Wong

How can we create the environments for people to Sparkle to “make meaningful...

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Sharon Bautista

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Community, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Service Design, Teamwork

Sharon Bautista is a Chicago-based user experience researcher and designer....

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20 Ways to Say ‘No’

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Communication, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

EventIgnite!

Speaker Andrea Neuhoff

Twenty different ways to say “no” to an idea, a request, a design feature, a project, coworker, your mom, your best friend, and so...

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