Recordings

Karen VanHouten A curious skeptic and expert snark, Karen has a deep love for beautiful messes fostered over 20 years of work in UX and product. Karen currently works as the Senior Director of Product Strategy and Project Delivery at...

Steven Kellert Meet Steven Kellert, a Chicagoan with a penchant for hitting all the right notes—be it on paper or a ukulele. When he’s not nose-deep in medical and scholarly manuscripts, making sure every comma is in its right place...

Session Notes In her Leadership By Design presentation, Christina Goldschmidt introduces an innovative toolkit that combines traditional design thinking with elements of mysticism and neuroscience. Serving as the VP of Product Design at Warner Music Group, Goldschmidt argues for the...

 Billie Mandel Billie Mandel is a multidisciplinary social scientist, leadership coach and team collaboration expert with 30 years’ international business experience leading software R&D teams to innovate, grow and create more effectively together. As a first-wave UXer and (often token)...

Jenae Cohn Dr. Jenae Cohn writes and speaks about online teaching and learning for international audiences. She currently works as the Executive Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley, and has held prior roles at California...

Janelle Ward Janelle has led UX research at digital product companies, both as a founding lead and as a manager upskilling and growing existing research teams. She has a background in psychology and digital communication and spent 15 years in...

Dan Brown Together with Nathan Curtis, Dan Brown founded EightShapes in 2006. Though specializing in information architecture, user research, and design discovery, Dan’s career spans most aspects of UX design. Dan wrote three books on the practice of user experience,...

Billy Carlson Billy Carlson is a design educator at Balsamiq, where he helps new and non-designers learn best practices for all phases of user interface and digital product design. He teaches university-level UX and design thinking courses, and, as a...

Andrea Mignolo Andrea (aka Andi) is an American designer, writer, and seeker interested in complexity, consciousness, emergence, and learning. By day she is an executive coach working with leaders and teams dedicated to profound and lasting change. By night she...

Lou Rosenfeld Lou Rosenfeld is Rosenfeld Media’s founder and publisher. Like many user experience folk, Lou started somewhere (library science), made his way somewhere else (information architecture), and has ended up in an entirely different place (publishing). Lou spent most...