02.21.2019

Talk Description
How to stay resilient (and keep your sanity) as you face pressure in school, work, and beyond.

Speaker Bio
Amanda is a product designer at Inamoto & Co., a Brooklyn based studio. There, she helps shape digital products and services for clients, ASICS and Theory. On the side, she likes to read self-help books, advocate for mental health, watch so-bad-it’s-almost-good romcoms, and collect her mom’s clothing from the 70s.

Talk Description
The role of design when what’s groundbreaking today is table stakes tomorrow.

Speaker Bio
Charles is an Associate Design Director at Green Stone with a decade of experience in conceptual and interactive design. Specializing in helping companies of all sizes challenge assumptions and collaborate to achieve thoughtful and sustainable outcomes.

Talk Description
The role of introvert designers: finding our champions and discarding the unnecessary.

Speaker Bio
Darlene’s career has covered a wide range of experiences, from drafting architectural drawings, pixel-shifting at Corel Corporation, to designing complex product experiences internationally at SAP. Now at WorkSafeBC, she is building a User Experience practice from scratch, as the first UX Lead of that organization.

Talk Description
Minimal Calendar, Maximum Effort – A behind the scenes and candid look at what it really takes to build a (hopefully) successful design-focused app for the marketplace.

Speaker Bio
Sean Wolcott is a Seattle-based graphic designer and founder of Rationale, a design studio where he designs identities, user interfaces, websites, publications, and more for a wide range of clients.

Talk Description
Optimization is an essential part of any product's lifecycle, but what are the ramifications when we try to optimize who we are as humans?

Speaker Bio
Dan Nanasi is a designer and strategist deeply interested in future technologies and how to prototype them. As a User Experience Strategist at Engine Digital, Dan guides teams in planning and executing digital products and experiences for consumers and citizens alike. Dan has worked with a variety of brands and organizations such as DIRECTV, Air Jordan, Adidas, BC Hydro, Coast Capital, and Ocean Wise. A graduate of the SIAT program, Dan believes in giving back, regularly providing guidance and mentorship for tomorrow's designers.

Talk Description
User researchers in industry often carry out their research with a limited focus and view. This talk will look at how social science research approaches can improve the practices of industry user research to help them uncover new problem spaces, potential risks and consider bigger picture sociological issues.

Speaker Bio
Sheila is a curious and passionate proponent of design and user research, enabling client teams to solve complex problems in creative ways by getting closer to the people that rely on their products and services.

Talk Description
Sharing insight into how unconventional and complimentary teams can help large scale clients conceive and deliver new products.

Speaker Bio
A Senior Experience Designer currently at R/GA NYC, he first started at R/GA Portland working with Nike on products like Nike Plus, Apple Watch Nike+, and Nike ID. Today, he continues to help different clients strategize and build new products.

Talk Description
Social Studies explores the power of design throughout history and how it has the ability to facilitate identity, action, and connection.

Studio Bio
Civilization is a design practice that builds identity systems, digital experiences, printed materials, environmental graphics and exhibitions that are engaging, empathetic, sustainable and create meaningful connections. Civilization is a recipient of the National Design Award for Communication Design from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.