Know Your Emotional Threshold

In a world where we are “always-on,” we often find ourselves drained, whether physically or emotionally. Perhaps after a long workshop, a day of user testing or either lengthy synthesis session. Do you often wonder what is taking so much of your energy? It turns out that as a User Experience (UX) professional, it could be any number of reasons. With additional stress and disruption, COVID gives us it’s more important to take care of ourselves and our team both mentally and physically. Join us for a panel discussion with talented designers, researchers, and leaders.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:

Shannon Graf
Principal: Research and Design

Shannon is a Principal Researcher and Product Strategist at Dialexa, who brings with her, 17 years of operating at the intersection of customer needs and business impact. In her consultative and in-house roles, she has led and educated her peers on how to apply human behavior principles and methods to research problems in order to develop compelling solutions for teams within B2B, B2C, eCommerce, software, and cloud-based CRM tools across such industries as retail, healthcare, fashion and beauty, financial services, media, education, and nonprofit organizations.

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Christie Kaplan
Senior Product Designer, Dialexa

Christie is a product designer with over 5 years of experience in the digital space. She designs engaging, customized product experiences, apps, and brands that creatively solve unique challenges across platforms. She primarily focuses on the user’s journey and how they interact with a product through user testing, iterating and design sprints. She also has a passion for creating visual brand identities through a customized branding workshop process that meets the business goals and values.

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Ligja Gill
Ux Research Lead, Turner Sports: Warner Media

Ligja leads the UX Research practice for Turner Sports, a division of WarnerMedia. Her mission is to help deliver exceptional products experiences for fans of the NBA, college sports and e-sports, among others, through understanding user needs and behaviors.
Prior to WarnerMedia, Ligja honed her UX research skills partnering with clients across many industries through her work with consultancies, including AnswerLab and Sachs Insights.

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Maya Pellegrini
User Experience Researcher, Google

Maya is a staff user experience researcher at Google, where she manages a research team and works with design, product and engineering leads to focus strategy around user needs. Prior to Google, Maya had a fulfilling UX consulting career spanning diverse industries such as finance, technology, insurance and medical devices.
Maya received her Bachelor's degree in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University and her Master's degree in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University.

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Natalie Armendariz
Partner and Design Director, Funsize

Natalie is a Partner and Design Director at Funsize, a digital product design agency in Austin, Texas that creates impactful products with organizations like Volvo, Dell, Oracle, Adobe, and Toyota Connected. Before co-founding Funsize, she held senior design positions at FJORD and R/GA NY, where she was responsible for designing some of the earliest smartphone solutions for influential companies such as Verizon, Citibank, AT&T, Flickr, Formula 1, and the NFL.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR:
Dialexa is the Technology Research, Design, & Creation Firm. The Dialexa team delivers custom design and technology solutions to differentiate your business, giving you a competitive advantage. When everyone is using the same technology solutions, we give you different. We give you better. We design and build with excellence and the user at the forefront. We deliver speed to market. We will make you a great technology company.