Salt Lake Design Week - Day 2 ( 7 Events Throughout The Day)
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Name: Alan Wilson
Date: Oct 18th, 9:00am 45min
Location: DevMountain | 341 Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Job: Adobe, Design Manager
Title: Data Visualization 101
Description:
Go beyond simple infographics and charts by learning to map the visual attributes of any object to data. I'll introduce the basics of data collection and manipulation, useful tools and software, best practices, and more—just enough to scratch the surface of this exciting (and growing) field.
Bio:
Alan Wilson graduated from Brigham Young University with a BFA in Graphic Design in 2004. He was Creative Director at Eli Kirk (now Eli Kirk Riser) for 4 years and now works for Adobe Marketing Cloud as a product designer manager.
Twitter: @alangwilson
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Name: Mariah Hay
Date: Oct 18th, 10:00am 45min
Location: DevMountain | 341 Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Job: Pluralsight, VP of User Experience
Title: Help Wanted: How to find the right Experience Job
Description:
UX Designer, Product Manager, Customer Experience Researcher, Product Owner, Strategist… no matter what job title you pick, it can mean something different to Experience Design (XD) within each organization. Today we are going to learn more about how to better understand, translate and navigate this confusing landscape by exploring:
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The history of XD, and why this has lead to current confusion
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Some of the major types of organizations that employ people in XD and how job descriptions may look different for each
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The maturity of XD practices within and organization and which ones you want to work for
This talk is aimed at product professionals who are new to the industry, seasoned professionals who are interested in an industry overview, and hiring managers / recruiters who are seeking clarity on the current state of industry roles and what they mean.
Bio:
Mariah Hay is the VP of User Experience for Pluralsight, an online subscription based education provider for the technology community. She also teaches graduate Design Management classes for Savannah College of Art and Design. Her expertise in implementing human-centered design product practices at the enterprise level stems from over a decade of tenure in the industry. She has served as UX Director for Universal Mind, the largest independent digital agency in North America, Director of User Experience for remote patient monitoring company AMC Health, and Design Manager for healthcare GPO and Analytics Company VHA, in Innovation Practices to look at future innovation commercialization opportunities in the healthcare space.
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Name: Patrick Cox
Date: Oct 18th, 11:00am 45min
Location: DevMountain | 341 Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Job: Canopy Tax, Sr. User Experience Designer
Title: Stranger Ansers
Description:
What really happened to Barb? Did Barb really have parents? Who built the buildings in the Upside down world? Why does Nancy like that jerk Steve so much? What kind of questions are you asking your users? Are you getting Strange Ansers? Well, you're probably asking strange questions. In order to create the right experience for our users we must first understand their whole story, not just the plot wholes. Let's run through some best practices for planning, performing and asking the right questions at an interview. Maybe you'll even find out why Eleven loves Eggos so much.
Bio:
Patrick Cox is an Senior User Experience Designer at Canopy Tax, a cloud based tax resolution and practice management startup in Lehi. Beyond designing things, he also mentors new designers via Thinkful.com, teaching students the purpose and the process of becoming a UX Designer. He also watches to much television.
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Name: Ken Kirkland
Date: Oct 18th, 1:00pm 45min
Location: DevMountain | 341 Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Job: DOMO, Sr. UX Designer
Title: The power of unified teams
Description:
The responsibilities of the UX designer has continued to evolve into more prominent roles, creating more business value through successful user experiences. The most successful designers are much more than just designers. They are team builders, mentors, communicators, storytellers, and visionaries. Companies need us to be highly collaborative as we drive good design with and across our teams. Come learn useful insights and strategies about how to become a more efficient designer through a more inclusive UX process.
Bio:
Ken has been designing delightful experiences on the web for many years. Working with clients such as, NFL, Conde Nast, National Geographic, Zagg, and more. As a product designer, his passion is aligning people and teams around a strong vision and insightful solutions that solve real business problems.
Currently a Sr. UX designer at Domo, he collaborates with and mentors some of the most talented people in product development, and continues to create and evangelize customer driven design, a unified team process, and positive culture.
When not designing, Ken spends his time singing and playing guitar, working out, and spending time with his wife and their 5 children. (All aspiring designers... fingers crossed.)
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Name: Designer Debate
Date: Oct 18th, 2:00pm 45min
Location: DevMountain | 341 Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Debaters: Joe Faux, Seth Taylor, Sloan Knight, Krissie Shelley
Title: Exposure to other designer’s work online makes us stronger as designers
Description:
Today’s designers have a world of interaction design at their fingertips. The apps they use, the web they browse, and the portfolios that are shared online provide an abundance of resources for references and inspiration. 15 years ago designers were in the opposite situation. In a pre smartphone world where web was in it’s mainstream infancy, designers had limited access to pursue other’s work. The question this panel will debate is this: does the designer of today push the creative boundaries of interaction design because they have more inspiration to pull from, or does this lead to lazy designers who simply re-appropriate the current design status quo?
Our Debaters:
Sloan Ellis, is currently a Creative Director at IBM for the Digital Business Group. She has 20 years of experience in UX design, 13 of those years at IBM. She is responsible for leading the design of ibm.com’s innovative user experience design system. As a design thought leader she is keenly focused on simplifying complexities and creating delightful user experiences. She is dedicated to sharing knowledge as a mentor and community member within IBM and her local design community.
Krissie Shelley has been creating online user experiences for over 15 years. Her background in programming and UI design help her navigate technical limitations while still focusing on great user experience. She is a senior user experience designer at Nav.
As the founder of Stotion, Seth Taylor has championed a powerful approach to design thinking and strategy. He demonstrates expertise in all things design, and a robust comprehension of business strategy, technology, web development, and behavioral psychology.
His personal philosophy is that any project, big or small, can be made great. His unique approach has proven valuable to billion dollar companies such as Google, Samsung and AmericanExpress. Seth’s work has garnered awards from AIGA and his custom fonts and imagery have been licensed by A&E Television Networks, Major League Baseball, MSP-C, and others. Seth is the creator of fontlines.com. For fun, he likes to collect entomological treasures, sleep outdoors, play and mentor his kids, learn about biomimicry, and mountain bike.
Joe Faux has been doing awesome things since he was 3. Before that Joe was kind of a baby. 20 years ago, he started making web stuff and working on his computer hacking skills and has never looked back. Now he owns all of UX at Vivint Solar. Joe is also a master ice cream maker and has invented like 40 flavors this year.
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Name: Dave Rackham
Date: Oct 18th, 3:00pm 45min
Location: DevMountain | 341 Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Job: GoReact, Product Manager
Title: It’s time we start telling our process, “Its not you! It's me!”
Description: Have you ever felt like your product design or development process was failing you? We talk a lot about process, but we seem to forget that a lot of times the process isn’t broken—we are!
Process doesn’t live in a vacuum, so let’s get personal and talk about how self-awareness and situational awareness are the keys to understanding how our inter and intra-personal struggles prevent our processes from being successful.
Bio:
I’m a Product Manager obsessed with EdTech. I’m so obsessed that I’m also finishing up a PhD in Instructional Design (Educational Psychology, Instructional Technology, etc.) at BYU. I believe that truly exceptional products are the core of transformational businesses, and am relentlessly trying to perfecting my craft.
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Name: Michael Kern
Date: Oct 18th, 4:00pm 45min
Location: DevMountain | 341 Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Job: Welikesmall, Executive Creative Director / President
Title: Hooking up vs. Monogamy: A critical look at design leadership from agency to in-house
Description: Coming Soon
Bio:
Michael Kern is a creative, a designer, a cinematographer, and a maker. Michael’s passion for storytelling through design, technology, and strategy based communication derives from a desire to give meaning to the world around him and create emotional connections. He has built products, ran sprawling agencies and small digital boutiques, been an adjunct professor, a mentor, and a speaker.
Currently, Michael has the honor of serving as Executive Creative Director and co-founder at Welikesmall. While at WLS he has worked with and won clients like Nike, Disney, Google, Reebok, Playstation, American Express, Starbucks, and more. The close collaboration and unbelievable talent at WLS have shaped his curious outlook and desire to be medium agnostic.
His continued focus is on pushing the possibilities of design, pursuing cinematography and directing opportunities, thinking, creating permanent good, raising his family, and riding a bike fast.
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