Carol Huang
I’m Carol Huang, Senior UX Designer at Indeed, previously working at Mozilla. I have been working in the UX field for over nine years and have experience leading a diverse range of products across mobile, desktop, and TV experiences.
I’m working in Tokyo right now ー A curious individual that loves problem-solving, passionate about exploring the local cultures and how they impact the product. In addition, I enjoy creating illustrations, motion, and watching corgis videos on Youtube.
I lead and consult designers in my own time, share Japanese designs and UX learnings to inspire the UX community.
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Giles Colborne
Giles Colborne is the author of Simple and Usable (now in its second edition and translated into four languages) and CEO of cxpartners, one of the world’s most respected UX consultancies. He is currently working with Google to benchmark the UX maturity of over 100 companies.
He believes that user centred design can be a force for good and has worked with British Standards Institute, among others, to improve digital inclusion, accessibility, and ethical business models.
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James Chudley
James has been working as a design professional for 23 years across a wide range of sectors, most recently focussing on complex service design projects in the health sector. His experience spans the gamut of design practice from shaping projects and leading programmes of work to leading the delivering or research, strategy & design work for key clients such as Google, Spotify, Aardman, NHS England, BBC, Expedia, Hotels.com and Virgin Trains.
James specialises in leading and consulting on large scale, multinational and multidisciplinary user centred design programmes of work that deliver positive outcomes for the people who use them and the organisations that commission them.
James co-founded UXBristol, is a regular speaker at international UX conferences such as IXDA, UXPA, UXCambridge, UXScotland and FOWD and is the author of ‘Smashing UX Design’, ‘Usability of Web Photos’ & ‘UX Leadership Skills’.
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Roxana Barbu
“Roxana brings her passion for human cognition and behaviour to her role as a Sr. Cognitive and Behavioural Experience Researcher to the UX team at Macadamian, a healthcare technology consultancy. She works with clients on complex problems from product ideation through to post-deployment. Her ambition is to co-create innovative experiences and compelling digital solutions that are good for both people and businesses.
She serves as an adjunct professor within Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science where her day-to-day goal is to help bridge industry and academia to create a more robust, meaningful, and long-lasting change in our society. You can hear Roxana talk about what it takes to create successful digital solutions on select episodes of the podcast “Talking Health Tech with Macadamian”.”
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Morné Venter
I am an educator and problem solver with a specific interest in creative thinking, games and art. Currently I am the Head of School for Creative Technologies at Open Window where I specialise in teaching interaction design and UX thinking for undergraduate and honours students.
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Supreet Kumar
KOKO Networks
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Kate Van Niekerk
Kate has a background studying Social Anthropology. After working in a number of industries, she found herself by happy accident in the world of UX as a researcher. Kate is Head of UX at MakeReign, a design agency, and Director at She Can Do, a NPO working to empower women in the UX & Design industry. She believes strongly in the power of design to create social change and value in people’s lives
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Badi Sudhakaran
Badi is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of VALR, creating products that transform the world of finance and usher in the era for crypto adoption. Since beginning his career at Yahoo!, Badi has lived in four countries and led software teams to build beautiful products. Badi has spoken several at local and international conferences including DevConf (South Africa), DevTalks (Romania) and CodeGarden (Denmark) as well as Øredev (Sweden).
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Antonia Lorz
Antonia is an Associate Senior User Experience Designer focused on concept development and design of a next-generation electronic health record (EHR) through a user-centered design process. Antonia also has design and research experience in multiple global regions focused on healthcare solutions.
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Jody Butts
Jody is a Senior User Experience Strategist working on international health care technology platforms for Cerner. Working alongside business and engineering leadership, Jody is propelling the organization toward a user-centered design approach as it creates a next-generation electronic health record (EHR).