[POSTPONED: New Date TBD] Uber Design Night - 8th Edition

### [UPDATE]

Unfortunately, we have bad news; we have confirmed positive Covid cases within our Design Team.

As we deeply care about the health and safety of everyone involved, be it our own colleagues or our guests, we have decided to postpone our 8th Design Night to avoid further spread.

We will continue to monitor the situation in the following days. For now, we have canceled all the tickets and will soon identify a new date for the event and release new tickets.

We regret having to make this decision and thank you for your understanding.

Hope we will be able to welcome you all soon for a fun Design Night.

Thank you,
Uber AMS Design Team

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Our Speakers

Deanna Sim
Deanna is a User Research Manager at Mollie. She was hired as the first researcher and has built the practice from ground up. She uses research to bring evidence-based decision-making to product teams. Originally from Canada, Deanna has been living in the Netherlands for 3.5 years, and before fintech worked in eLearning, health tech, and e-commerce.

User research isn't just usability testing. In her talk on "Designing a research craft", she will share her journey of focusing the research craft on strategic product research and how the topic of democratization has contributed along the way (or has it?).

Daniël Sytsma
Daniël is an independent design consultant and interim creative director who operates on the intersection of brand identity, product design, and brand communications. During his 15-year tenure at ACHTUNG!, he evolved from designer to art director to ECD and partner. After the acquisition by Dentsu he worked with its 85 offices worldwide to drive the creative excellence of their design product as Global Chief Design Officer.

Daniël has experience working with innovative global brands and ambitious scale-ups. He created global brand campaigns, identities and digital products for Volkswagen, Philips, Porsche, Adidas and Adobe. His work has been recognised by Cannes Lions, D&AD, Eurobest (Grand Prix), Red Dot Design Awards (Grand Prix) and the Webby Awards.

In his talk, Daniël will talk about the importance of brand in a product design context. And will talk practically about ways to infuse brand thinking and craft into the process and final design at product-led organisations.

Remon Tijssen
Remon is a Senior Design Director at Uber currently focusing on Uber’s Foundations. He joined Uber 4 years ago as their first hired principal designer working across existing and emerging services, strategic vision, prototyping and helping to elevate the centralized design organization as a whole.

Before Uber, Remon, Dutch from origin had his own design studio called Fluid in the Netherlands. With Fluid he spanned a broad spectrum of interactive applications, playful software, digital content experiences, games, toys and events. Later, he moved to California where he worked as a principal designer at Adobe for 8 years. Most notable he was the first designer on mobile and (multi-)touch which led to designing an eco system of touch and mobile based applications and the next generation of Adobe’s design system.

He had a second stint running his own design studio, Kinetic Aesthetic and worked on northstar projects for Microsoft, Meta, and Salesforce. During this time he also created the beloved iOS app called Whorl, a playful art and design tool for creative exploration and discovery.

His presentation will take the audience on a journey of his career through a showcase of projects spanning more than 2 decades being a designer in tech.

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Our Schedule
18:00 - Doors open ~ Bites & Drinks
19.00-21:00 - Talks & Bites
21:00-21:30 - Networking

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Our Office
Each event participant will be asked to sign an NDA agreement at Uber reception. This will be done via an iPad and will take 2 minutes of your time. We appreciate your understanding!

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Our Memories (aka Photography/Video Consent)
We will be taking photos and videos during the event, and we use these photos and videos in recap blog posts, social media, and promotional materials. By coming to the meetup, you give us your consent to take photos and videos of you. If you do not want to give us your consent, please either let us know at check-in or change your RSVP to 'Not Going'.

Uber will collect, store and use your contact information for the purpose of considering and or contacting you for employment, and for any future Uber conducted events. For more information on how your data will be used and how to exercise your rights thereto, please visit Uber's candidate privacy notice.

The Uber team is looking forward to having you!