Ian Swinson Over the past 20+ years Ian Swinson has balanced his time between agencies, startups and enterprise software companies. As the first designer at Salesforce.com he was instrumental in growing the UX team to over 100. Initially focused on...
Michael Lopp Michael Lopp is a Silicon Valley-based engineering leader who builds both people and product at companies such as Borland, Netscape, Palantir, and Apple. While he’s not worrying about staying relevant, he writes about pens, bridges, people, poker, and...
Erin L. Thomas, PhD Erin Thomas is Diversity Manager for Grant Thornton LLP, responsible for diversity and inclusion strategy, programming and evaluation in all 60 US offices. Prior to this role, she served as Argonne National Laboratory’s first Gender Diversity...
Kristin Skinner Kristin Skinner is Managing Director at Adaptive Path where she established and leads the Design Program Management practice. She has shaped and lead over 40 of the firm’s most strategic and complex projects and programs working directly with...
Xavier Wynn For the past 25+ years, Xavier has driven successful brand solutions for a range of Fortune 500 companies. Currently a Group Creative Director at Manifest, he is a proven leader in overseeing experience, design and content teams, as...
Amanda Schonfeld Amanda Schonfeld is a talent acquistion nerd. Hiring designers is her true love, but she also spends quality time with technologists, strategists, product folks, and client services people too. She possesses an uncanny ability to professionally matchmake. Amanda...
Amy Cueva Amy Cueva believes that design can improve the human condition. It was with that mission and vision that she co-founded Mad*Pow in 2000 and has built an award-winning design and digital agency which serves industries from health to...
Randy Hunt Randy J. Hunt is VP of Design at Etsy, where he leads a team of designers, researchers, writers and artists creating the end-to-end experience, both online and off. Etsy is a global commerce platform empowering independent creative business...
Tanseela Molani Tanseela leads the design research and universal design efforts at United Airlines. The research team informs the vision, experience and execution of inspiring, useful, and profitable travel products and services. The accessibility team ensures universal design throughout design...
Adam Cutler Adam Cutler is the Design Practices Director with IBM Design and one of the first three Distinguished Designers at IBM. He is responsible for the IBM Design Studio in Austin, TX. He is also responsible for the competency,...
