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Teresa Swingler

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAgile, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, IoT, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Service Design, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryAerospace

Teresa Swingler is the Director of User Experience at Honeywell Aerospace....

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Tutti Taygerly

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Product Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Innovation, Leadership

Tutti brings her 20+ years of design experience into executive coaching....

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Julia Duffy

DisciplinesBusiness, Sales

TopicsCareer, Leadership

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Julia came out of the womb speaking non-stop and only shuts up when she sleeps...if...

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Pauline Munga

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Social Innovation

Following proven success in corporate retail as a systems-thinking Fashion Designer...

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Grishma Jena

DisciplineData Science

TopicsData

Grishma Jena is a Data Scientist with IBM Watson in San Francisco. She delivers talks...

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Marina Razakhatskaya

DisciplinesArt, Engineering, Immersive Experience Design, User Experience

TopicsAR/VR, Innovation, Installation & Curation, IoT, Robotics & AI, Storytelling, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustriesAdvertising, Arts & Entertainment, Marketing, Retail, Technology

Creative Technologist who builds physical-to-digital experiences that might cause delight....

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Lisa Ghisolf

DisciplinesGraphic Design, User Interface

TopicsDesign Thinking, Web & Mobile

Designer and WordPress developer freelancing for 16 years....

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Alexis Lucio

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAccessibility, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

Alexis (she/her) is a designer focused on accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion....

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Carina Ngai

DisciplinesGame Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Innovation

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Technology

I speak about the practice of design research, interaction design, and inclusive design....

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Renée Stevens

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Immersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Motion & Animation, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, AR/VR, Creativity, Design Thinking, Disability, Innovation

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Renée Stevens is an interactive and immersive designer, educator, author, and speaker....

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Pazit Kagel

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsBlockchain, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship

IndustriesFinance, Technology

I am a designer who is passionate about solving real complex problems. Trained as an...

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Rachel Anderson

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Rachel Anderson is a UI/UX Designer creating beautiful solutions to real human problems....

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Jahnavi Kurapati

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Culture, Lean, Methodology, Product Development

IndustriesTechnology, Telecommunications

Jahnavi Kurapati is a Product Manager at Motorola Solutions in Chicagoland, where she...

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Lindsey Gates-Markel

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Lead content strategist at Pixo, a woman-owned software and web consultancy in Urbana, IL....

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Sasha Endoh

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Engineering, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Management & Strategy, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

Sasha believes in using technology's power for the greater good....

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Michelle Singleton

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Content Strategy, Fashion, User Experience

TopicsCommunity, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Product Development, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Fashion, Marketing, Retail

Based in Oakland, CA, Michelle Singleton is a Creative Director and Stylist, with...

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Rayana Verissimo

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCommunity, CSS, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, HTML, Methodology, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Rayana is a Senior Product Designer at GitLab, speaker, and design mentor....

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Emma Boulton

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCommunity, Environment, Leadership, Methodology

Emma Boulton is a Design / User Research Leader based near Cardiff in the UK....

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Ida Aalen

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Social Networks, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

LocationOslo, Norway

She’s especially happy when she gets to work with people from other fields than her own. She’s passionate about user testing and user research, has made it her mission to prove that there’s no such thing as no time or no resources for user testing. You can check out her writings on Medium or A List Apart – and she’s always happy to chat on...

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Jenn Downs

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Design Thinking, Storytelling

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

Jenn Downs is a UX Designer at Ad Hoc and adores the web and what it can do for the...

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Changing the Face of Game Development

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion

Speaker Catt Small

Video game consumption by men and women is nearly equal, but only 3-7% of programmers...

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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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TalkSlidesGallery

Creating an effective & beautiful data visualization from scratch

DisciplineFront-end Engineering

TopicsData, Visual Thinking

Speaker Nadieh Bremer

Live-coding a data visualization using d3.js that featured in the Scientific American...

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Victoria Gonda

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsAccessibility, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Victoria is an Android Engineer at Buffer and author at Ray Wenderlich....

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The Future of Smart Cities

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsInnovation, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Saskia Sassen

A leading researcher on globalization, global cities and new technologies Saskia...

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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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How to run a design sprint without a panic attack

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking

Speaker Diamond Ho

How are products at Facebook designed?...

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Partners Counseling – 5 Strategies for Harmonious Partnerships

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsTeamwork

Speaker Lea Alcantara

If you work with other people, you are a partner. Whether it’s your clients, your...

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RC Woodmass

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Data, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

WRITER, TECH GEEK, INCLUSION EXPERT...

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Human Interactions: Physical and Virtual

DisciplinesArchitecture, User Experience

TopicsCulture

EventIXDA Interaction

Speaker Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes

Architecting Interaction explores designing for interaction through space. Space, a sort of physical interface, stimulates human, analog and digital interactions. All our actions are interactions. Beyond the digital realm of interactive design, interactions include people’s verbal and nonverbal physical interactions. As an architect, space is my interface. Whatever yours may be, I believe it is only a tool and only relevant in light of the interactions it can stimulate and the enhanced users’ ...

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