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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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Maria Giudice

DisciplinesBrand, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Innovator, artist, protagonist, and positive provocateur, Maria has pursued a vision of intelligent, elegant, people-centered design throughout her professional life. Her grasp of the pragmatic, the authentic, and the essential have kept her at the forefront of design and business for over 30 years. Under Maria’s leadership, Hot Studio, the award-winning experience design firm she founded in 1997, grew into a full-service creative agency with an impressive list of Fortune 500 clients. In 2013, Facebook...

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Silvia Sfligiotti

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Ethics, Methodology

Graphic designer, educator, writer, somatic activist....

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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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Jennifer Strickland

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Business Strategy, Communication, CSS, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, HTML, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Privilege, Product Development, Regenerative Design, Service Design, Social Innovation, Web & Mobile

IndustriesFinance, Government, Healthcare, Nonprofit, Technology

With 30 years working as a full-stack designer/developer, strategy, research, IA,...

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Burning ourselves out is burning the planet out. Visualizing complexities in the climate crisis for regenerative design.

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Graphic Design

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Regenerative Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability

IndustryEducation

Speaker Rachel Beth Egenhoefer

Changing the conversation on 'sustainable design' to 'regenerative design'. ...

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Leanne Waldal

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Data, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Methodology, Web & Mobile

IndustriesFinance, Marketing, Retail, Technology, Telecommunications

Growing and leading research, research and design ops, measuring value of design...

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Black Mirror and the Power of Speculative Design

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Mick Champayne

How designers can learn from Black Mirror’s cautionary tales with speculative design. ...

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Liz Ogbu

DisciplinesArchitecture, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Social Innovation, Storytelling, Sustainability

IndustriesEducation, Government, Healthcare, Nonprofit

A designer, urbanist, and spatial justice advocate, Liz is an expert on social and spatial...

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Designing for VR/AR Workshop

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAR/VR

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Di Dang

In consumer-facing VR/AR, we are seeing the rise of immersive computing,...

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Growing Civic Technology in New York City

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Social Innovation

IndustryGovernment

Speaker Genevieve Gaudet

Closing panel of BigApps 2017 mentors...

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Alba Villamil

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Methodology

Alba Villamil is an independent User Researcher who specializes in designing for the...

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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 Marquis

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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