Descripción del evento
La pandemia global ha presentado retos importantes a las compañías que innovan y diseñan productos, pero también ha presentado oportunidades inesperadas. Acompáñanos en este panel de lideres locales del diseño en el que hablarán de cómo hacen para sobrevivir y crecer en un mundo conectado a través de medios remotos. Este evento será presentado mediante Kast, un programa para ver contenido que ha sido desarrollado localmente. Se requiere de crear una cuenta (sin costo) para participar; recomendamos crear la cuenta antes del evento.
Este programa será presentado en inglés.
About the panelists
Stephanie Mencarelli
Stephanie Mencarelli is a Senior Design Director at Walmart Labs where she spends her days inspiring her teams to push the boundaries of what is possible to innovate for millions of Walmart customers. Previously, Stephanie lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden at the Spotify headquarters. There she led a team that delivered a multitude of delightful experiences to music and podcast listeners around the globe. Stephanie’s background in advertising makes her passionate about storytelling, strategy and answering the question, “So what?”. Stephanie focuses on helping her team make the complex simple, consider real world implications with service design, and believes every designer needs to wear a business hat.
Chris Gielow
Chris Gielow (@gielow) has a record of establishing and leading Product Design teams in San Diego, including at CareFusion, The Active Network, and now American Specialty Health. Along the way he became an Intuit Innovation Catalyst, ACM Scholar, and recently UX Speakeasy Board Member. His passions are advocacy, mentorship, house-music, and designing what’s next. Chris lives in Carlsbad with his wife and daughter.
Christopher Konrad
Christopher Konrad’s passion is making technology fit comfortably into people’s lives. He created Konrad+King, an experience design company, to humanize customer experience, data intelligence, mixed reality and transportation. They’ve been fortunate to design for Microsoft, Intuit, BMC Software, HP, AppDynamics, BD, Qualcomm and others. He created and directed the design strategy and research practice at Artefact. Prior to consulting, he was the Manager of Design Research for TurboTax at Intuit. His career began at Microsoft working in the Applications division. He held the position of manager within the Office Design Group, responsible for providing customer insight and design direction for Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac. He became interested in engineering products for people while studying Applied Engineering Psychology at the University of Illinois, and working at the Human Perception and Performance Laboratory at the Beckman Institute.
Kavita Appachu
As a Customer Experience leader, Kavita Appachu (@kappachu) has worked at the forefront of applying Lean innovation and elevating the practice of customer-centric collaboration to drive organizational innovation at companies including Intuit, Cox Automotive Media, AARP, and Roche. She is passionate about unlocking the entrepreneurial spirit of organizations by coaching them to embrace change, understand the importance of risk-taking, and create solutions that transform the way we think and shape the way we live.
About UX Speakeasy
UX Speakeasy es una organización sin fines de lucro y también la filial en San Diego de la Interaction Design Association que atiende a la comunidad local de diseñadores como la principal organización local de UX. Un recurso para profesionales que van desde diseñadores de experiencia de usuario hasta diseñadores interactivos, profesionales en UX, estrategas de contenido y profesionales de usabilidad que encuentran una comunidad entre los miembros de UX Speakeasy mediante el fomento de un ambiente de camaradería en la comunidad de diseño de San Diego.
