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Sahra Brandt

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Content Strategy, Fashion, Sales

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Management & Strategy, Social Networks, Sustainability

IndustryFashion

15 year Fashion Industry veteran available to chat about all things fashion and business....

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Sophie Tahran

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Sophie spends her days naming products, defining company voices, and generally...

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TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Communication, Community, Data, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Product Development, Service Design, Storytelling, Taxonomy, Teamwork

Toni is a relationship-driven professional with extensive experience leading...

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Katie Briggs

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

TopicsDesign Thinking, Innovation, Methodology, Teamwork, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

Katie Briggs practices product design, user research and strategic problem solving at NPR....

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Lacey Wilson

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustriesEducation, Healthcare, Nonprofit

Lacey engages individuals in conversations that empower and transform communication....

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Rachel Gogel

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Graphic Design, Product Design

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Illustration, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Teamwork, Typography, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Parisian in SF & Creative Director at Facebook influencing the in-product brand experience...

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Sharon Bautista

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Community, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Service Design, Teamwork

Sharon Bautista is a Chicago-based user experience researcher and designer....

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Sonya Highfield

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Entrepreneurship

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Finance

Sonya Highfield is a Boston born and bred entrepreneur dedicated to helping creative...

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Lila Symons

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Design Strategy, Innovation, Typography

IndustryRetail

Lila is a typeface designer and lettering artist who specializes in font development....

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Eve Blouin

DisciplinesBusiness, Content Strategy

TopicsCreativity, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Social Innovation

Eve is a PhD candidate in Psychology. She is an expert on creativity and imagination,...

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Ariba Jahan

DisciplinesProduct Design, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Ethics

IndustryNonprofit

As an immigrant Bengali woman that discovered my profound hearing loss at age eight,...

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Brenda Michelle Sánchez Montaño

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Community, Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustryEducation

Psicologa, Uxer,...

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Lara Fedoroff

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Methodology, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Lara Fedoroff is the Director of Product Strategy at Philosophie, a design and...

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Tasha Lutfi

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Tasha Lutfi is a Principal Design Manager at Microsoft...

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Ari Krzyzek

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

A creative entrepreneur, designer, mentor, speaker, and professional peer...

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Emily Hauptle

DisciplineBrand

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Data, Innovation, Management & Strategy

Emily is a marketing automation expert speaking on marketing/advertising ideas and trends....

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Laurie Barth

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsCommunication, JavaScript, Product Development, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Laurie is a developer with a passion for helping the next generation of female...

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Svetlana Kouznetsova

DisciplinesBusiness, Front-end Engineering, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Disability, Web & Mobile

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Technology, Telecommunications

Consultant specializing in UX & Accessibility for products, media, events....

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Kelly Goto

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Service Design, Web & Mobile

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Kelly Goto is a respected lecturer and keynote speaker in the UX, Service Design and CX communities. Her work spans decades and includes work focused on healthcare, biotech and medical device space. She is passionate about using mobile ethnography to focus on real needs, behaviors and solutions. Kelly founded gotoresearch because of her belief in the power of Service Design to empower lives and fuel innovation. Over the last two decades she has focused her UX research and Ethnography towards this goal;...

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Sunni Brown

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Culture, Design Strategy, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Sunni Brown was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one...

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World IA Day Keynote: Empowerment in an Era of Self Validating Facts

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCommunication, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Typography, Visual Thinking

IndustryMarketing

Speaker Margot Bloomstein

If we face an erosion of trust, can we rebuild rapport through empowerment?...

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JD Sassaman

DisciplineArchitecture

TopicsCommunication, Innovation, Leadership

IndustryArts & Entertainment

JD currently leads one of the most adventurous, cutting-edge spaces for innovation...

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Secrets of Great UX: Keyhole Impact for Better Product Experiences

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Communication, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Management & Strategy, Product Development

IndustriesTechnology, Telecommunications

Speaker Ilona Posner

All product teams have good intentions, but some products still end up failing users....

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Louisa Heinrich

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Culture, Design Strategy, IoT, Leadership, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Louisa is a design, strategy and innovation leader. Over the past 20 years, she has...

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Designing Solutions for Social Impact Movements

DisciplineArt

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Innovation

IndustryGovernment

Speaker De Nichols

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Marli Mesibov

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Communication, Design Strategy, Installation & Curation, Storytelling

IndustryHealthcare

Marli Mesibov is the Vice President of Content Strategy at the design and UX agency...

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Developer-Friendly Design

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Graphic Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Thinking, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Lea Alcantara

Design fundamentals for developers who want their projects to have personality and...

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Digging Beyond User Preferences

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Methodology

Speaker Indi Young

Many of the applications you develop are applications you would use. This makes it...

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Stephanie Lawrence

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics

IndustriesGovernment, Healthcare, Retail

Stephanie is a UX designer and researcher in Brooklyn....

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Structuring Content to Empower Users

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Design Systems, Ethics, Taxonomy, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

EventConfab

Speaker Lisa Maria Martin

The way you organize your web content changes the way users can find it, understand it, and act on it. Your content may already be organized logically (well done, you!), but what if it could do more? What if the structure itself could make your content more meaningful, more sustainable, and more powerful in helping users reach their goals? This talk, delivered at Confab Central 2018, discusses how making small (but strategic) changes to the way you organize your content can empower your users. We’ll...

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