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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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Bonnie Zhou

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Community, Creativity, CSS, Design Systems, HTML, JavaScript, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

LocationNew York, NY, USA

Bonnie is a UX engineer at Google, building web prototypes to scout the future of work on the Google Workspace team. Outside of work, she is a fierce creative expressing herself through the mediums of dance, song, and 3D digital art. Bonnie graduated from the University of Waterloo with a joint degree in Computer Science and...

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Irene Kim

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

TopicsMethodology, Web & Mobile

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

Irene Kim is a product designer at NPR (National Public Radio) and is currently a...

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Ethics in Software Development

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsEthics

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Jane Prusakova

Software has a lot of power to influence people’s lives and to encourage social...

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Olga Vinokurova

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Creativity, Design Strategy, Innovation, Methodology, Storytelling

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

Olga Vinokurova is a Senior Art Director based in Venice, California. She spent the...

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Design and Ethics in the Age of AI and “Smart” Things

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsRobotics & AI, Social Innovation

Speaker Gretchen Anderson

Practical tips and approaches for designers who work on products that use automation, mach...

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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 strategist, coach, facilitator, speaker | Host of UX Cake podcast...

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The User Experience of a Natural Disaster

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsEnvironment

Speaker Amy Silvers

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Hazel Leung

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Methodology, Teamwork

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

Hazel is a design technologist at NPR. She leads research and design for all things...

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Connecting Children with Nature through Smart Toy Design

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsMethodology

Speaker Nidhi Jalwal

What do you get when you take a stuffed animal, shove a smartphone in it, download...

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Connecting the Unexpected

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Interface

TopicsCulture

Speaker May-Li Khoe

Creative Mornings 2016. This highly participatory talk involved education, culture,...

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Demarra West

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Communication, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship

IndustryHealthcare

Demarra West is founder and chief wellness officer of Be Well Beautiful Woman which...

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Difficult conversations; Stakeholder meetings, conflicts and designers’ battlefields

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

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

Speaker Maggie Jandova

Being a UX UI Designer involves more than just creating innovative, easy-to-use solutions. A big part of our job is facilitating meetings, bringing all opinions to the table, and making sure everyone supports the direction we're taking. However, presenting our work can turn into a disaster when we're unsure of how to effectively communicate and dodge the feedback once it gets too much to handle. In the talk, we will focus on how to effectively communicate design decisions, navigate through the pool of ...

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