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Christine Røde is a product designer at The Browser Company. She led design for Arc Search on iOS and Android, and is now working on Dia, the company's new flagship product. Before this, she designed for WhatsApp, Facebook, Deliveroo, and more. Originally from Norway, she now calls London home.
- When:May 14 2:25 – 2:45 PM GMT+1
Designing for both iOS and Android—the Right Way
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Accessibility
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Dan is a Design Engineer at Tailwind CSS known for diving deep into how design tools actually work under the hood. Before joining Tailwind, he ran the design team at Raycast. When he's not building stuff, you'll find him writing detailed breakdowns about everything from blending modes to QR codes.
- When:May 14 1:45 – 2:05 PM GMT+1
Building color palettes for the modern web
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Web design
- Topic:Brand
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Devin is a multidisciplinary—I can’t do this… Nick, will you write this for me? Sure, Devin. An unholy marriage of wait-bump-this-2-more-px perfectionism and invert-this-it’s-boring chaos. Unforgivably talented, rarely filtered, poser repellent. From Florida, with skateboard. The people’s champ of effortless, undisciplined, precision graphic knife play. CEO of the internet and the best web designer I’ve ever met (and I’ve met most of them). -Nick
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Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma. Dylan studied computer science and mathematics at Brown University where he and his co-founder, Evan Wallace, first started experimenting with design tools built on (and for) the web. With funding from a Thiel fellowship, they began Figma. Prior to Figma, Dylan interned at O'Reilly Media, LinkedIn, and Flipboard.
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Ellen McGirt is an author, podcaster, speaker, community builder, and award-winning business journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of Design Observer, an independent media company that has maintained the same clear vision for more than two decades: to expand the definition of design in service of a better world. Ellen established the inclusive leadership beat at Fortune in 2016 with raceAhead, an award-winning newsletter on race, culture, and business. The Fortune, Time, Money, and Fast Company alumna has published over twenty magazine cover stories throughout her career, exploring the people and ideas changing business for good. Ask her about fly fishing if you get the chance.
- When:May 14 11:20 – 12:00 PM GMT+1
Driving industry transformation
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Strategy
- Topic:Scalability
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Kishan Koriya manages the native design system at Lloyds Banking Group. Setting the strategic direction, he guided designers and developers to utilize design tokens for the first time across 12 mobile banking apps and deploy the Lloyds rebrand into the app experience. Passionate about establishing sustainable multi-brand design systems that enable products to be built with scale, efficiency, and cohesion, his leadership has fostered a true sense of collaboration across all disciplines.
- When:May 14 11:00 – 11:20 AM GMT+1
Lloyds reimagined: the future of digital-first rebrands
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Design systems
- Topic:Collaboration
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Marla Mitelman leads the Rapid Experiments team in J.P. Morgan’s Digital Innovation and Experience Design practice in London. Her journey in human-centered design started in the late 1990s driven by her passion to create useful experiences that include and work for everyone. Marla has previously held positions at BCG Digital Ventures, where she led the Experience Design Cohort in Sydney. She has worked for a diverse range of clients, including Microsoft, Toyota, AIA, Vodafone, and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
- When:May 14 11:20 – 12:00 PM GMT+1
Driving industry transformation
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Strategy
- Topic:Scalability
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Nick was a Flash designer/dev until Steve Jobs busted the party. He landed at Stripe in 2017, grew dependent on Devin’s design skills and brought globes, waves, and 3d books to the web. Now he writes single-file, endless JavaScript functions that paint websites on HTML canvas. Twirling, strobing, hypnotic gpu-melters. No system, no objective, nothing twice. Reading Nick’s code is like personifying the phrase 'Why not?
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Ning is a content designer based in London and Singapore. He is a big fan of words and language. Medium fan of metaphors. Rather small fan of unpacking them. He is proof that liberal arts majors can, in fact, get tech jobs. In his free time, he busks with a typewriter.
- When:May 14 3:15 – 3:35 PM GMT+1
Stop with the dirty tricks: confessions of a UX skeptic
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Content design
- Topic:UX
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Stine is the Chief Product Officer at Polaroid where she looks after the full Product journey across Hardware and Digital from R&D, Engineering, Industrial and Product Design, Product Management, to Packaging, and the overall User Experience. The ultimate mission for her and her team is to bring the Polaroid spirit of human creativity and connection to the 21st century. Stine started her career at Spotify, Apple and The New York Times.
- When:May 14 12:00 – 12:20 PM GMT+1
Reinventing Polaroid for the 21st century
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Hardware
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Timothy Achumba is a Principal Product Designer at Microsoft, leading a prototyping team exploring innovative AI interactions. With over a decade of experience in product design, including roles at Meta and Wunderlist, he specializes in designing AI-driven tools that enhance creativity and productivity. He also runs Akuko Labs, where he designs mechanical keyboards and keycap sets that blend art, design, and technology.
- When:May 14 2:05 – 2:25 PM GMT+1
How Figma became my gateway to physical product design
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Hardware
- Topic:Prototyping
- Topic:Brand
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Vishal Kapoor is a lead designer with over 15 years of experience in design systems, visual language, and digital brands. He has led transformative projects for global companies like IBM, Jaguar Land Rover, Virgin Media, Deutsche Bank, Cisco Meraki, and Shell. Currently, he leads the Design Language team at Lloyds Banking Group, contributing to the Lloyds Bank rebrand and new app experience. Vishal is also a certified yoga teacher, dedicated to holistic wellbeing, teaching mindfulness practices within his community.
- When:May 14 11:00 – 11:20 AM GMT+1
Lloyds reimagined: the future of digital-first rebrands
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Design systems
- Topic:Collaboration
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Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma, where he leads the product and design teams. Before joining Figma, he was at Uber for over 4 years, where he led the redesign of both the rider and driver apps. Prior to that, he was responsible for the YouTube app on iOS at Google.
- When:May 14 12:00 – 12:20 PM GMT+1
Reinventing Polaroid for the 21st century
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Hardware