2021

Leadership By Design 2021 The Power of the Pep Talk Think pep talks are just for overzealous sports coaches and kinda-culty motivational speakers? Think again. Life is tough, but so are we. And we’re even tougher when we’re in it...

Leadership By Design 2021 You Can Do It! Leading Through New, Unprecedented Challenges with Patience & Perseverance Leading and managing design teams might be reaching peak difficulty. With high expectations from the people you support and the managers above you,...

Leadership By Design 2021 From the Ground Up: Growing a New Practice at Your Organization Leading a practice is hard enough. But what if it doesn’t even exist yet, and how do you even get started? We’ll discuss lessons learned—including...

Leadership By Design 2021 Meaningful Product Inclusion This year Google Maps introduced a Black-owned business attribute. Learn more about how this project started, what it took to make it happen, and ways you can bring inclusive product development practices into...

UX Camp Summer 2021 The Long Game: A New Mindset for UX Networking “The long game is built on relationships.” — Russell Nohelty There is strength in community. The careers within UX all require a degree of empathy which requires...

UX Camp Summer 2021 How We Do the Work Matters We’ve told ourselves and each other for years that we should be happy with small victories—we worked with our teams to make the world a little more accessible. And yes,...

UX Camp Summer 2021 With the World on Fire Join Ashleigh Axios for an insightful and information-packed talk on the big and small lessons of a designer who works to make positive social change during times when the world seems...

UX Camp Summer 2021 How to Make the Right Design Portfolio to Land Your Next Job As a hiring manager at Amazon, I’ve seen a gazillion resumes and portfolios. I&8217;ve also been part of review panels for portfolio presentations from...

UX Camp Summer 2021 Conscious Uncoupling — Innovative Ways to Separate User Habits from User Needs When modernizing a legacy system, it’s easy to just recreate what exists—only a little better. This is an especially dangerous trap when the users...

UX Camp Summer 2021 How to Talk to Your Developers About Accessibility Although generally thought of as something only important to the “disabled”, considering accessibility for digital products improves everyones experience. This is true regardless of their particular abilities. Instead...