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 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 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 Stop Making Flawed Products Flawed Products are products, services, and technologies developed without considering, including, and understanding the needs of the underserved consumers expected to buy and use them. Are you making flawed products? Learn about...

UX Camp Summer 2021 Humility: The Designer’s Most Essential Trait Humility is essential to doing our best work. Why? Effective visual communication and intuitive UX are not subjective; every objective design decision we make carries weight, and is bigger than...

UX Camp Summer 2021 How The Evolution of Usability in Chess Can Influence User Experience Design Today ​What does an old game like chess have to do with user experience? It’s a great example of long standing user experience and...

UX Camp Summer 2021 Running Design Sprint Kickoff Meetings Remotely with a Global Team Do you work distributed/remotely? Does anyone on your team work distributed/remotely? Now, is your team spread out across different countries, continents and time zones? Welcome to...