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Designer + Art Director
Jessica Lauren
Design
Jessica has spent fifteen years as an art director for publishing and product brands, from magazine covers to app launches. Her studio helps teams find a visual voice that still feels human at scale. At Eventside she opens day one with a talk on designing products people remember.
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- Sun 20 Dec · 09:30 · Main stageStop making pretty stuff: design with soulKeynote · 60 min
- Mon 21 Dec · 14:00 · Studio AMoodboards that survive the meetingTalk · 60 min
- Tue 22 Dec · 10:00 · Studio BArt direction for product teamsWorkshop · 120 min
Designer + Writer
Margaret Lee
DesignProductCommunity
Margaret writes and designs for the web, and has led content design at two fintech start-ups. Her newsletter on plain-language interfaces reaches 40,000 designers every month. She runs the content strategy workshop and shares the checklists her teams still use.
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Product Designer
Hana Kim
DesignProductResearch
Hana is a product designer who has shipped mobile apps used by millions in Seoul and Toronto. Her work focuses on onboarding, accessibility and the small details that make software feel calm. She will walk through three redesigns, including the ones that did not work.
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UX Researcher
Kenji Tanaka
ProductResearch
Kenji leads a research team that tests ideas with real users every week, not once a quarter. Before that he studied cognitive science and ran field studies across Asia. His sessions show how to make research count, from storing findings to the first five minutes of a new product.
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CEO + Founder
Robert Hale
ProductCommunity
Robert founded a design consultancy that grew from three people to two hundred across four countries. He now advises founders on building teams where design has a seat at the table. Expect a frank talk on hiring, leading through change and saying no to the wrong clients.
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Creator UI/UX + Shareholder
Damian Wilson
ProductCommunity
Damian builds design systems for companies with dozens of product teams. He co-created an open-source component library used by more than 2,000 projects. On stage he joins the business panel, talks about voice interfaces and gives Monday’s evening keynote.
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UI/UX + Shareholder
Michael Greenwood
DesignCommunity
Michael designs interfaces for machine learning products, where the hardest part is explaining what the model does. He has worked on search, recommendations and data tools for research labs. At Eventside he shows how motion can explain a product, and hosts the fireside chat and the live Q&A.
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Editor in Chief
Selena Fitz
Design
Selena is editor in chief of a magazine about technology and culture, and has interviewed many of the people shaping the products we use. At Eventside she talks about brand storytelling and runs the Writing for Interfaces workshop. Her edits are known for being short, fair and hard to argue with.
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UI/UX + Shareholder
Nijal Parrett
ProductResearch
Nijal leads design for a healthcare platform used in hospitals across Canada. The work sits between clinicians, engineers and regulators, so clarity is not optional. At Eventside she makes the case for accessibility by default and for research with people who are not already fans.
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See you in Vancouver
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