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Xin Xin

DisciplinesGame Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Communication, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Product Development, Service Design, Storytelling, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryHealthcare

Xin Xin leads UX Research at One Medical, where the team is transforming healthcare...

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Brittney Urich

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Service Design, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Brittney Urich is an experience designer based in Denver, Colorado at Ogilvy. She is...

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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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Lauren Celenza

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCommunity, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Methodology, Privilege

IndustryTechnology

Designer at Google Maps 🌏 for emerging cities / Listen, feel, co-create...

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Marcela Coutinho

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Methodology, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

With 10 years of experience in the digital product industry, Marcela designed for...

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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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Gina Pensiero

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCommunication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Gina Pensiero has worked as a strategist and writer for over a decade. Prior to...

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Brenda Lucena

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Methodology

Multifaceted design leader with more than 12 years experience in the field of user...

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Karen Kaushansky

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Strategy, Innovation, Methodology, Robotics & AI, Voice UI

IndustryTechnology

Karen Kaushansky is a Conversational Interface Designer and Product Designer, ...

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Jennifer Hogan

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

As a designer and leader, Jennifer believes that design drives innovation and helps...

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Michelle Mederos

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCommunity, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Methodology

IndustryTechnology

Michelle Mederos is a Product Designer at Facebook, where she currently works on...

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Genevieve Gaudet

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Design Strategy, Methodology, Product Development, Service Design

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

Senior civic designer at Nava PBC...

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Tarah Srethwatanakul

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsService Design, Storytelling

IndustryTechnology

I'm a service designer and mixed methods researcher with experience across Europe,...

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Brooke Baldwin

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Research

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Methodology, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

With over 18 years’ experience as a UX researcher and designer, Brooke has worked...

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Lia Napolitano

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

TopicsAR/VR, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Ethics, Voice UI

IndustryTechnology

Designer at Oculus, 5 years at Apple and an ex-hired gun to Airbnb, Lyft and more....

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Shalin Pei

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Social Networks

IndustryTechnology

Shalin is proudly “the scrappy kind” of designer, who built her career from...

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Victoria Clark

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Social Innovation

Victoria is committed to pursuing justice for those in need and creating a fair and...

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Aleksandra Melnikova

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCreativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Methodology

IndustriesAdvertising, Technology

Aleksandra Melnikova heads up the experience design team at POKE London, part of...

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Kristina Halvorson

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience

TopicsCommunity

LocationMinneapolis, MN, USA

Kristina Halvorson is considered one of the most important voices in the field of content strategy. She is the founder and CEO of Brain Traffic, a content strategy consultancy; the author of Content Strategy for the Web; and the founder and producer of Confab conferences. Kristina has spoken at 100+ conferences all over the world about the importance of customer-centered content and is regularly interviewed on the topic for podcasts and publications. She lives in the Twin Cities with her two kids, whom...

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Samihah Azim

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Samihah is a Product Designer at Lyft where she sits at the intersection of business...

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Empathy and Innovation

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsInnovation, Social Innovation

Speaker Kate Canales

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Rayna Anderson

DisciplinesBusiness, Game Design

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

Rayna Anderson has more than a decade of experience in the video game industry, always ...

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Women in Industrial Design Forum: Design Leadership

DisciplinesIndustrial Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer

Speaker Sara Ortloff Khoury

ArtCenter Faculty Babette Lee Strousse – Product Design and H&S, ArtCenter College...

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Ashleigh Axios

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

Ashleigh Axios is an international speaker, strategic creative, and an advocate for...

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Hacking our way to an agile organization

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Culture, Leadership

IndustryGovernment

Speaker Tanya Snook

Explore practical hacking and how to hack work, teams, organizations, and ourselves....

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Veronica Erb

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Research

TopicsCulture, Data, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

IndustryNonprofit

As a researcher and information architect at NPR, Veronica takes a long view on...

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Dispelling misplaced confidence in reality

DisciplinesArt, Immersive Experience Design

TopicsCareer

Speaker Tea Uglow

Uglow presents a number of thinkers throughout history who have explored the value of...

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I am Superman

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsIoT, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Louisa Heinrich

Our lives can be seen as a combination of data, decisions and that unique element we...

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Isabel Nyo

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsCareer, Diversity & Inclusion, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Isabel is an accomplished woman in technology with a passion for knowledge sharing...

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Stop Blowhard Syndrome

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer

Speaker Christina Xu

A short essay that examines the opposite of impostor syndrome—blinding self-delusion—which is maybe the thing we should be...

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