Speakers

Alesha Arp is a Senior User Experience Researcher whose work has informed the design of software platforms, digital and physical spaces, and business processes.

Melinda is a Senior Product Designer at Gem, helping teams nurture top talent. With a background in front-end development, she also has extensive experience designing for the learning and training space, and helping worldwide organizations build their digital content design systems.

Sup Suh is an experience designer at Bounteous, where his work encompasses everything from user research to human-centered design.

Tricia Okin is a lead user experience designer and service designer who uses design thinking for the public good and the good of her clients’ businesses.

Margo Stern, a Content Strategist at Level, has been making the rounds in Silicon Valley content circles since it became a thing (about ten years ago). After stints at Google, Twitter and Facebook, she made the switch to the start-up world in September 2020.

Saskia Videler is a senior content strategist in Belgium. She helps organizations streamline their content and communication efforts.

Lauren Liss coordinates the Interaction Design major and the User Experience and Web Development minors in the Interactive Arts and Media (IAM) Department at Columbia College Chicago and has been a faculty member in this program since 2006.

Clifton Simmons is an award-winning writer, creative leader, and UX content strategist with over 20 years of experience spanning advertising and user-centered design.

Jatin is a product designer at T-Mobile currently designing the T-Mobile for Business self-service platform. He is passionate about problem-solving in the digital space while keeping sustainability and ethics in mind.

Lindsey leads content strategy at Pixo, working with teams of clients, designers, and developers to explore the space between what exists and what is possible. She loves dumb questions and metadata.