Chicago Camps, LLC was formed and founded with the intention of bringing high-value, low-cost events to the User Experience community. We support new and experienced presenters alike, offering several events throughout each year. We provide proposal support to help get...
Kevin Klos Kevin Klos is a Senior Experience Designer (The Star Wars equivalent of a Jedi Master) with Best Buy, where he uses human centered design, testing and analytics to vanquish deceptive design and make easy-to-use experiences for Best Buy...
Dani Nordin Dani Nordin works for athenahealth as the Product Design Architect for athenaClinicals. There, she uses her superpowers in user research, pattern recognition, and snark to help the organization unpack big, gnarly problems related to EHR configuration, clinical content,...
Laura Materna Laura is a UX designer with a professional background in both graphic design and Spanish translation; these days she mostly translates user needs into graceful software solutions. Laura is a UX designer with a professional background in both...
Jessica Bertling Jessica Bertling is an avid gardener and loves to help things grow, especially ideas. After receiving her degree in Digital Media and Design she spent eight years in e-commerce, specializing in user experience design and front end web...
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...
