Designing for Happiness in Challenging Times

The cyberpunk science fiction author Bruce Sterling spends twenty minutes beefing about the pain points in remote work and interaction design, while he's standing on the edge of a cliff, and he's stricken with Covid-19

A no-nonsense reflection on the ways in which responsible and discursive design can affect change in big organisations

There are many unknowns throughout the early product stages around the product market fit which are very different from innovating an existing product. This talk offers an insight into the ambiguities and highlights design methods to uncover them. It explores the working backwards framework from a design lens and discusses the value of design as an enabler to bring order out of chaos.

Deliveroo for Doctors, or Butlers bringing Bandages? Launch a new mobility service and should people not get it, they'll throw it in the river (literally). Learn how metaphor-first design is helping shape a more inclusive city environment for us all.

How community creativity in crisis leads to transformation

The future of CX is beyond traditional customer-centricity

How social distancing brought people remote but closer.

Can we really dismantle systems of oppression? Who needs to be in the room and what tools do we need? This talk will dive into the realities of dismantling systems of power and oppression through a case study of the same in Washington state impacting more than 40,000 youth and young adults experiencing housing instability.

Learn how to effectively scale and mature design in your organization.

Why would your future self be talking shit about you? And most important what should you do today to change the future? Futures can’t be predicted but they can be made. This talk is taking futures thinking near – to you own table. How can you shape your own life, career or business to fit the forthcoming needs by using futures thinking?

Since Felix Lee founded ADPList (Awesome Design People List) in 2020, it has grown into a community of more than 4,500 mentors across 40+ countries and regions. As a designer and entrepreneur, Felix has embedded his creative roots in ADPList’s culture, product, and community. He's been featured in media outlets around the globe – on Forbes, Tech in Asia, The Straits Times, and CNBC, to name a few. Watch Part 1 in a two-part series, during which Anthony Viviano, Senior Interaction Designer with Bloomberg's Financial Products UX team, sits down with Felix to talk about how ADPList began and what it is doing today. In Part 2 of their conversation, Felix will share his vision for ADPList's future.

In this talk, Pablo Stanley will break down what the Microverse is. How it differs from 3D metaverses, while diving right into the design details of building a virtual world where non-fungible token avatars interact with each other. Discover some of the challenges and tradeoffs faced at Bueno to get the UX of this 2D microverse up and running on the blockchain.

As designers, our power and responsibility go hand in hand. How do you know you're on the right path? Before you start your next project, take PICS or it shouldn't happen.

This talk is about the Design Leadership lessons I’ve learned from an unorthodox path into leadership and how growth can be obtained from the darndest places.

How do you transform & grow a design team during a pandemic, while tackling an engineer-driven corporate culture? By setting up a structure that is built to be dismantled.

A personal tale of overcoming fears, learning from defeat, and persevering.

A look at the systematic errors in thinking that affects decisions and judgment during the design process.

Learn the opportunities designers have to address the lack of equity and inclusion in the current design process by incorporating elements of social movements.

Are you afraid? Stressed? Forgetful? Struggling because you miss your old life? Is the new normal way of work still difficult? No worries, the disability community comes to the rescue with daily tools and hacks everyone can use, yes at work too. #brainfog #mentalHealth #a11yTools

Nervous about interviews? Don't know how to answer questions or what hiring managers mean when they say that? A hiring manager reveals her secrets.

We conducted a 1,010 person survey of U.S. participants to assess consumer knowledge about privacy and data collection in current and emerging tech. The research captured discomfort and examples of how some existing data practices feel like privacy violations. Some respondents distrust data defaults and desire a higher standard of privacy protections. And almost all respondents have adopted at least one privacy service. Come learn more about people's attitudes and motivations for privacy, and what product creators need to know about consent.

Learn how ServiceNow's Experience Organization is fostering a culture of design thinking across a large enterprise company and enhancing a culture of professional excellence in research, design, content, writing, and operations in a large experience organization, all during a pandemic where the vast majority of our people are distributed and global. You’ll learn about some hard won lessons from fostering design thinking across numerous cross-functional teams and broad product portfolios—something many have tried at various companies but few succeeded—and get a glimpse into how we foster a supportive, bonded community of world-class practitioners sharing their expertise to help everyone else get better at what they do.

To notice requires awareness, which requires action and participation. Consolidating knowledge about how the unnoticed came to be and later, what has become, is the key to continuing this awareness-action loop. Join me as I explore a series of examples and reflections where reciprocal actions were transformed into frameworks, new ways of collaboration, accessible knowledge, participatory documentation, and more humane cultural production.

We have to acknowledge the power of sight as the first touchpoint between people and the world. From the moment we wake up until we get to bed We are constantly bombarded with information, they way information is represented is a form form of Graphic design. Graphic Design affects and molds every touchpoint in our lives. Throughout this talk, Wali’s work in design across diverse areas such as, education, heritage, tourism, culture, literature, food, fashion and more.

See what we learned by trying to build the museum world’s answer to “Immersive [insert artist here] Experience” — and why we feel like that “answer” isn’t so different after all.

How challenging the pandemic and remote world was on some creative people. It was hard for some to find inspiration when all the news is bad and people are divided. But, there were things our team did to remain passionate and create beautiful things. How did we maintain positive energy and infuse designs with passion when things were hard in the world around us? What lessons did we learn?

Regenerating is literally building anew. And what is Design if not the ability to understand existing structures, remodel and generate new possibilities?

Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for AI

Healthcare systems are reaching their limits now, often being on the verge of breaking down while thousands of people get hospitalized. While the hospitals are at their limits too, how do you design a digital service that has home care in its core from the moment it was born in late 19th century in Switzerland? This lightning talk will cover the aspects of managing the patient while keeping the service scalable – from a tiny village on top of the mountain to the business centres of Switzerland.

How our international team connected over language learning and hacked the miro platform to create a game, and a community that connected us during remote working times.

Can teams really develop cohesion when working remotely? The answer is yes, but there are a few things to pay attention when facilitating an effective remote work environment, and Rituals are one of them.

Our design team works for many clients, with very diverse realities. The offices used to be our place of belonging, community, and exchange, but how can we recreate that space remotely?

In the past year, many people experienced and witnessed new forms of interactions in their homes due to study and work obligations from home. This 15-min talk discusses the home office as shared work space where co-working is the norm, calling on interaction designers to rethink the concept of home office.

Communication is a two-way street and there are many ways that native English speakers can support their international colleagues. This talk includes real-life stories to raise awareness and practical suggestions that can easily be implemented for positive change.

Since Felix Lee founded ADPList (Awesome Design People List) in 2020, it has grown into a community of more than 4,500 mentors across 40+ countries and regions. As a designer and entrepreneur, Felix has embedded his creative roots in ADPList’s culture, product, and community. He's been featured in media outlets around the globe – on Forbes, Tech in Asia, The Straits Times, and CNBC, to name a few. Watch Part 1 in a two-part series, during which Anthony Viviano, Senior Interaction Designer with Bloomberg's Financial Products UX team, sits down with Felix to talk about how ADPList began and what it is doing today. In Part 2 of their conversation, Felix will share his vision for ADPList's future.