We constructed a series of lightning talks to help you improve your product design game. Each talk will range from 10-20 minutes.
Tricia Spoonts, Lead Designer at Rimeto
Rob Levin, UI Engineer at Mavenlink
Nathan Diesel, Mobile UX Designer at AnovaCulinary
Nick Inchausti, a Senior UX Researcher at SurveyMonkey
Joshua Sortino, Design Director at Square
Carola Pescio Canale, a Product Designer at TaskRabbit
8:10 PM
Chris Gallello, Founder of Purple.pm
Tricia and Rob worked together on a design system for Mavenlink, which expanded and scaled across a whole team. In this talk, they will teach you how a designer and a developer collaborate on design system and pattern library. This is from the perspective that you already have some of your brand designed, you hired another designer and want to put together a guide to make it easy to adapt your style guide. Tricia and Rob will show you the tools they use, how they archive and track components, and how Rob implements and stores them.
Tricia is the lead designer for Rimeto and co-founder of Listician. She was raised by two accountants who instilled in her a great love of patterns and systems. On weekends you can find her designing clothing or crocheting giant animals.
Rob Levin is a Senior UI/UX Developer at Mavenlink where he bridges the worlds of UX, Illustration, and Development for the company's flagship Project Management application.
Nathan Diesel is back and here to share some powerful tips to help you write clear and concise, and fun microcopy! He'll guide you on how to speak to your audience so they understand and they are on the same page.
Nathan is a Product Designer at AnovaCulninary and has a passion for user-centered design. He's been a full-time and freelance designer in multiple industries including fintech, entertainment, healthcare, advertising, and education research. He also taught design at the San Francisco City College and has been a regular mentor for Cascade SF for the past 3 years. Nathan believes information wants to be free but a great user experience makes it more valuable. He advocates for consumer access to data and tools for people to understand it.
In this talk, you'll learn tips on how to ask more engaging questions when constructing a qualitative survey, and who better to give this talk than a Senior Researcher from SurveyMonkey?
Nick is a senior UX researcher with a background in psychology. Formerly a senior research manager at UserTesting, he now leads user research at SurveyMonkey. When he's not up to his elbows in diary studies, he can be found entertaining his coworkers with the original songs he writes and performs for them.
Ask Josh anything about designing digital products. He has over 15 years of experience building web and app interfaces, digital products, design teams, and businesses.
Joshua Sortino is a Design Director at Square, a company that makes it easy for businesses to accept credit card payments from anywhere.
Prior to joining Square, Joshua was the VP of Design at Pivotus Ventures where he oversaw user experience, user interfaces, marketing and communication design for financial companies. He worked as a Design Manager at Teespring, where he managed a team of 15 designers and as a Product Designer at Disqus. Joshua is an Advisor for startups in the Bay Area and a Design Mentor at Andreeson Horowitz.
Carola will walk us through a time-saving method she and her team use to gather, organize and synthesize research. Since meeting with Carola, we at Cascade use this method regularly and find it incredibly useful.
Born and raised near Genoa (Italy), Carola is a self-taught designer with a background in economics and business that allows her to see Design not only as a job but as a filter to the world. Carola has been in the industry for roughly 4 years and now works as a full-stack Product Designer at TaskRabbit, where she touches on both ends of the marketplace (Client and Tasker). She has a special place in her heart for digital accessibility and is a true smartphone geek.
The industry is oversaturated with a lot of new UX designers, but what will you make you stand out? Your ability to follow a process, understand different scenarios and uncover solutions quickly and methodically. Streamlining your design process will guide you to the best solutions and have clarity on the project landscape.
In this presentation, Chris Gallello will teach us about Purple, a design tool to help you map out the entire design process in an intuitive and easy to use app. Purple connects with your favorite design software including InVision, Sketch, and Google Docs, and makes it easy to keep your teammates and stakeholders on the same page. You can also create lists and assign tasks.
Chris Gallello is the founder of Purple.pm, a project planning tool for design teams. Prior to working on Purple, he was a Product Manager at Microsoft, where he helped people be more productive, and Imgur, where he helped people be less productive. On the side, he also runs a VR design meetup (roomscale.design) and has built several silly VR experiences.
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What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
There is street parking and nearby garages available in Downtown San Francisco.
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email Andi Galpern at andi@cascadesf.com
Can I request a refund?
All tickets after April 14, 2018 are final sale, non-refundable and available on a first-come-first-serve basis.
If you purchased your ticket on or before April 14, 2018, we will issue you a refund until Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 11:59pm. Refund requests after Tuesday, April 17, 2018 will NOT be granted. To request a refund, email Andi at andi@cascadesf.com.
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