Taylor Poulos Taylor is a designer and writer, currently working at Moment in New York, New York. He started making software when he was twelve, eventually focusing in UX design and research. At Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh PA, he...
Kurt Cunningham Kurt is a motivated and adaptive innovative thinker who enjoys data-driven design and development. His passion for finding the best possible experience is matched by only his love for the Iowa Hawkeyes. For more, keep up with Kurt...
John Polacek John Polacek leads front end at Gesture, the mobile fundraising platform for charity events, and is the author of many open source projects like Expressive CSS, Stacktable, Responsivator, BigVideo.js and Scrollorama. For more, keep up with John at...
Rebecca Miller-Webster Rebecca Miller-Webster is a software engineer, conference organizer, and educator. She is the founder of Write/Speak/Code and Practice Lead at DevMynd. Rebecca has been developing software professionally for over a dozen years, previously organized GORUCO, and was the...
Chris Courtney Chris is the Director of the Design Program at Bloc.io, an online education startup based in San Francisco, California. At Bloc, he draws upon 20 years of design experience building brands and products to prepare the next wave...
Arlo Bryan Guthrie Arlo Bryan Guthrie is Sprout Social’s Lead Design Developer, focusing on the design system for our flagship web application and other online properties. He’s a devoted family man and an amateur whiskey snob. His parents were too...
Rudy Rigot Rudy is brand new to Chicago, and loving every bit of it! In a previous life, he was a software engineer at Apple for a while, founded his own startup (Holberton School, a 2-year software engineering school in...
Autumn Schultz Autumn is a Senior Product Designer and Researcher at Trunk Club in Chicago. She’s been involved in design and UX for several years and has worked for companies of all sizes, most notably Orbitz and Belly in addition...
Lauren Lucchese Lauren is a UX content strategist, writer, and editor based in Chicago. She’s currently a UX Content Strategist at Capital One, where she uses words to design product experiences that feel like meaningful, personal conversations with customers. Lauren...
Margot Harrington Launched at the height of the 2008 recession, Pitch Design Union makes brands, websites, and publications for community-focused organizations, non-profits, small businesses, and contemporary art spaces. Clients include the Art Institute, the Chicago Design Museum, Studio Gang Architects,...















