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Chetana Deorah

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Graphic Design, Immersive Experience Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Teamwork

Chetana is an experienced design leader and builder of high performing product design...

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Bronwen Rees

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Creativity, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Bronwen has a deep knowledge of best practices and passion for digital innovation...

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Liz Khoo

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Communication, Design Systems, Product Development, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Liz Khoo is a Lead Product Designer at Salesforce, focusing on automation platform...

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Malaika Carpenter

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Communication, Design Thinking, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Healthcare, Marketing, Technology

Malaika helps clients transform their value into content that draws their customers in....

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Madhuri Kolhatkar

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Teamwork

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology, Telecommunications

Design Leader, Usability Practitioner, Coach and Mentor for Women in Design...

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Ana Santos

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Methodology, Service Design, Web & Mobile

Ana is a UX & Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) consultant based in Portugal who...

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Lucy Ziegler

DisciplinesIndustrial Design, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCreativity, Innovation, Voice UI

Lucy has been helping bring meaningful value to users and clients by design. In roles...

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Hope Armstrong

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Front-end Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, User Interface

TopicsCareer, CSS, Illustration, Sustainability, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Nonprofit, Technology

A senior product designer with illustration and web development skills....

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Jude Fulton

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Installation & Curation, Product Development, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Experienced design leader in startups, interaction design and product......

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Julianne Burke

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

TopicsCareer

IndustriesAdvertising, Technology

Julianne is a UI Designer at Helios Interactive, a digital experience studio...

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Kristin Lueke

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Design Operations

TopicsCommunication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryMarketing

Strategic Director at Firebelly, a full-service design studio focused on social impact...

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Katie Swindler

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Leadership, Web & Mobile

IndustryMarketing

Katie leads the experience strategy for Allstate online marketing products....

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Sheryl Cababa

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Methodology, Social Innovation, Social Networks

IndustryTechnology

Sheryl Cababa, executive creative director, is focused on UX design and ethics....

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Carla Serein Aziz

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Product Development, Social Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Carla is a multidisciplinary product designer and researcher working to create...

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Hadiseh Gooran

DisciplinesGame Design, Interaction Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Hadiseh is a Computational Media graduate student at UCSC with a concentration in...

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Soo Yun Kim

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Game Design, Graphic Design, Immersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Motion & Animation, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Soo Yun Kim is an Emmy Award-Winning designer in Mobile Product, Interaction and...

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Gülay Birand

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design

TopicsCareer, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Leadership, Service Design, Social Networks, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Gülay joined Facebook as a Product Design Manager and UX Lead on Facebook Newsfeed...

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Elizabeth Resnick

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Installation & Curation, Typography

IndustryEducation

Elizabeth Resnick, Graphic Design Educator, Curator, Published Author...

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Nitya Kumar

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Service Design

IndustriesAerospace, Education, Government, Retail, Technology

Location6, Langford Gardens, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025, India

Nitya is a Service designer and design coach. She is the Head of Design at NUMA Bengaluru, a global innovation hub. Combining her expertise in product design, digital design and research, she has taken on multiple roles such as UXer, interaction designer & service designer. She works with startups, corporates and universities - wherever there’s a need for design intervention. She has a masters in Service design from Politecnico Di Milano and Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Product...

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Xiaomin Jiang

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCreativity, Diversity & Inclusion, Methodology

UX designer by day. Tango dancer by night. Learner always....

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Connect

DisciplinesEngineering, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Social Networks

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Cynthia Savard Saucier

How can we stay connected through social media without becoming enslaved to these...

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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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Emotionally personalised future

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsInnovation

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Jing-Han Ong

Jing Han-Ong teaches us how empathy and emotional coding can help artificial...

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Cathy Pearl

DisciplineUser Interface

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Robotics & AI, Voice UI

IndustryTechnology

Cathy Pearl is Head of Conversation Design Outreach at Google, and the author of the...

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Code Is Not Neutral: Ethics for Developers

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsEthics

Speaker Clarissa Peterson

It's easy to forget that the code you write affects real humans....

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Liz Jackson

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Fashion

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Disability

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Liz Jackson is a diability advocate turned designer....

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User Research for Agile Teams

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsAgile, Leadership

Speaker Jennifer Fabrizi

One of the biggest challenges facing UX designers working with agile teams is...

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Introduction to Service Design

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsService Design

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Speaker Megan Erin Miller

At Stanford, we as staff provide many types of "services" to our community, from...

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Alberta Soranzo

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Culture, Design Systems, Leadership, Service Design, Storytelling, Teamwork

Alberta Soranzo is End-to-End Service Design & Systems Thinking Director at...

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Employee tools don’t have to suck! How REI upleveled their retail service design through user research

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsData, Web & Mobile

EventUXPA

Speaker Catherine Ho

In an industry rife with outdated technologies, retailers face challenges balancing e-commerce experiences with brick-and-mortar stores. When store employees provide service to a customer, one negative encounter with a tool is enough to make employees wary of using it again. Knowing the archaic tools used by employees, internal red tape, and a captive audience of 10,000 employees...where does a UX’er begin? Well, employees are customers too! A nimble team at REI is transforming how employees work ...

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