2025

Leadership By Design 2025 Think Like a Leader: 10 Things UXers Should Stop (and Start) Doing to Reclaim Their Power Every week, working with UXers and product designers at all levels — in addition to those serving on teams of...

Leadership By Design 2025 Intentional Leadership The world of design and the contexts in which it operates are constantly evolving, making it increasingly clear that our approach to leadership must be adaptive. What does this mean for us, whether we...

Leadership By Design 2025 The Human Signal: Architecting for Emotion, Not Just for Experience As designers, we champion the link between design and emotion when creating user experiences. But what happens when the human emotions in the creation process—the “noise”...

Leadership By Design 2025 Machines Customers: The Evolution Has Begun What if your next customer isn’t human? In a world increasingly run by AI, machines are rapidly becoming independent economic actors, making buying decisions without human intervention. In her provocative...

Leadership By Design 2025 Getting Unstuck with Visual Frameworks Visual thinking pioneer Dave Gray will share his passion for visual frameworks, a fresh and intuitive method for creative thinking and problem solving.

Leadership By Design 2025 Gather Round: How to Share the Stories from UX Research As UX Researchers, our job is not over when the interviews are finished. In fact, that’s when the most important part of our job is just...

Leadership By Design 2025 The New Conundrum: How to Lead When You’re Not the Expert One of the hardest things for leaders to admit is that they don’t know enough to keep up. We’re all dealing with AI right now,...

Leadership By Design 2025 AI, Anxiety, and Actual Impact: Leading Design Teams Through the AI Era As AI hype collides with workplace realities, design leaders face a threefold challenge: managing executive expectations fueled by LinkedIn headlines and pithy X posts,...

UX Camp Spring 2025 Lessons Learned From Designing for AI Systems This presentation focuses on practical tools and frameworks for designing AI experiences that users find genuinely helpful rather than frustrating. Drawing insights from various sources, including my work on...

UX Camp Spring 2025 Designing for Real Life: How UX Changed My Thinking, My Work & My World UX reshaped how I think, collaborate, and lead. As a social entrepreneur and product strategist, I’ve used user-centered thinking to build inclusive,...