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Alison Mora

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Design, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Alison Mora is a design strategy expert with a broad range of experiences driving...

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May-Li Khoe

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCreativity, Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Social Innovation

May-Li is passionate about helping people cultivate their own creativity, curiosity,...

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Zalyia Grillet

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Career, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustryTechnology

Zalyia Grillet is a young Afro-Caribbean UX Designer who uses her love of human...

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Erin Pinkley

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCreativity, Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Erin runs the Brand Team at Zendesk....

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Maria Teresa Stella

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Design Thinking, Methodology

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

UX Designer and HCI graduate...

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Meeta Mathur

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

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Development, Teamwork, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Meeta Mathur is VP, Experience Design at MineralTree Inc., a B2B fintech SaaS company....

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Emily Campbell

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Product Development, Service Design

Emily is a veteran design and product practitioner. She is currently a Senior...

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Jasmine Patel

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryNonprofit

Senior Interactive Designer, Philadelphia Museum of Art...

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Cara Miller

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Product Development, Visual Thinking

IndustriesEducation, Marketing, Nonprofit, Technology, Telecommunications

Instrumental in crafting digital solutions for numerous Fortune 500 companies....

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Alexandra Fiorillo

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Leadership, Social Innovation

Alexandra is the Founder and CEO of GRID Impact, a social impact design Collective...

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Jeannie Huang

DisciplinesArt, Design Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Management & Strategy, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Product designer at Adobe exploring how to empower creatives...

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Kelly O’Brien

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Design Thinking, Storytelling

IndustryTechnology

Content designer @Intercom. News junkie, language weirdo, all-purpose nerd. (she/her)...

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Jenny Shirey

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Career, Communication, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Jenny specializes in helping teams make technical products that users love....

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Janey Lee

DisciplinesProduct Design, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Finance

Janey is a product designer who thinks a lot about experimentation, design for social...

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Joy Davis

DisciplinesArt, Fashion

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Installation & Curation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Fashion

Joy Davis is an independent scholar of fashion and cultural studies. She has B.A.s in...

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Monique Dubbelman

DisciplinesArchitecture, Content Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

Monique Dubbelman works as an independent UX designer and content strategist for her...

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Jennie Moore

DisciplinesBrand, Business

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustryAdvertising

Jennie is an award-winning creative director and copywriter at WONGDOODY, Seattle....

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Minal Bopaiah

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design, Sales

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Privilege

Keynotes that open doors in people's minds....

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Manon Miltenburg

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCommunication, Product Development, Storytelling, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustryMarketing

LocationFred. Roeskestraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Manon strives to humanize the digital world. So she built a squad of UX writers and brand specialists at Mr Koreander, the first European agency specialized in UX writing. Together they create interfaces that speak in a human voice. It’s the most effective way of guiding users towards their goal and add some fun while they’re at...

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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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Asking Why

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsInnovation

IndustryEducation

Speaker Erika Hall

What is the world like now? What should it be like? Mule Design co-founder Erika Hall...

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Samantha Yuen

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

Design research lead serving 40+ design researchers & UX designers in government....

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Beyond Digital: 5 Ingredients for immersive storytelling with technology and space

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, User Experience

TopicsAR/VR, Creativity, Data, Innovation, Installation & Curation, IoT, Robotics & AI, Storytelling

Speaker Marina Razakhatskaya

Beyond digital: how to craft engaging multisensory experiences in a physical space...

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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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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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Bethany Sonefeld

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design

TopicsAccessibility, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Ethics, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Bethany is a designer that specializes in systems thinking, detail oriented design,...

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Doodlers, Unite!

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Design, Lean, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

Speaker Sunni Brown

Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension — and our...

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Abby Covert

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsTeamwork

IndustryTechnology

Abby Covert is a senior staff information architect at Etsy. She specializes in delivering...

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Decisions Considered Harmful

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy

Speaker Anna Harrison

Developing software that exhibits flexibility of choice to the end user is considered best-practice: we’ll make it configurable, and let the user decide. Right? Wrong. In an era where Experiences are coveted more highly than Products, and users are overloaded with choice and burnt-out from decision fatigue, the worst possible coding choice that you can make is to gift the user with options. In this example-packed presentation, we show how limiting choice and reducing features can add value to your next ...

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