Asha Fereydouni is a Senior UX Researcher and Research Partner at UserZoom, where he's grown the UX capacity of a range of customers including, Kaiser Permanente, Facebook, McKesson, and the New York Times. He serves on the organizing committee of SF Design Week, and holds...

Aurora first got into UX through experiencing enormous struggles designing complex GUIs as a developer at university. After several years in technical consulting she is now a freelance UX Designer, carefully curating her projects within the sustainability and ethical tech sectors. After spending 6 months...

Nicola Plaisant is a Senior Strategic Designer at Mercedes-Benz Digital Business Development. Worked on operating systems, everyday mobility and service innovation at Nokia and Here Technologies. Lives and works in Berlin, loves digital products but whenever possible prefers to work with pen and paper. Wants...

Aly is the Associate Director of Pivotal Act, an initiative in Pivotal, dedicated to building technology that address social, humanitarian and environmental issues. Prior to Pivotal, Aly was a design consultant at ThoughtWorks doing work in the social impact space and before that worked in academia...

Currently Digital UX Manager for Design Group Italia, Julie has over a decade of design and technology experience, including digital services, apps, websites, interactive installations, and even home appliances. Julie is also the Co-Chair of the 2020 edition of Interaction Week, a premier global design...

PhD in media and communications from the University of Hull, UK. His thesis discusses online public spheres and political communication, with emphasis placed on transnational political discourses. He works as a senior lecturer, researcher, and graduation coordinator for the Creative Business program (BA, formerly International...

Alysson is a seasoned professional with expertise supporting organizations via Information Architecture, Interaction Design, and Usability. Working at the field since the end of the '90s when the first Polar Book was released, he experienced many changes during the last years in the way we...

Bogdan has combined his fifteen years in user experience and digital product design with formal training in marketing and economics. He spent three years in the agency environment trying to impact how healthcare systems adopt and use human-centered design practices....

Hertje is a freelance Experience Strategist based in Berlin. She work with small agencies and large organisations, planning and creating experiences with a lasting impact. Her background is in literary sciences and cultural anthropology. Not the typical start for a career in UX, but it...

Oksana Ivanova is a self-made UXer with a background in Information Architecture and Game Design. She started in a company as a consultant on a project but was able to become a Product Owen and Project Manager. At the moment Oksana is a CX and...