Amelia Abreu

Amelia Abreu UX Night School About the Speaker Amelia Abreu is a writer, design researcher and the founder of UX Night School. Based in Portland, Oregon, she has worked with teams at eBay, Nike, Mozilla, Microsoft Research and Intel, as well as startups and cultural...

Stacy Taylor

Stacy Taylor UI/UX Designer, Auth0 About the Speaker Stacy Taylor is a product designer at Auth0, where she creates a better user experience for developers and security professionals to provide safe and secure products for their users. She began her career as a...

Tatiana Mac

Tatiana Mac Product Designer & Speaker About the Speaker Tatiana Mac (she/they) is an independent American engineer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of accessibility,...

Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D

Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D CultureEncode About the Speaker Since 2005, digital anthropologist and New Relic product researcher Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D. has been studying the ways people all over the world use, make, and circulate digital things. In her work as a professor...

Using UX for Good: Building a Better World

Using UX for Good Building a Better World The world’s a mess. The number of problems we face and the technology involved, grows exponentially from year to year. Yet our job is to make it all work. From a UX design perspective, addressing these issues can seem like a...

CHIFOO Video Meeting Details

Below is general information about CHIFOO’s meeting/event. Please check out CHIFOO’s upcoming events on our calendar page or an individual event for specifics on speakers and dates. 6:30 Register for the October meeting on Zoom, get set up, then enjoy the...

Calm Technology
Designing for the Next Generation of Devices

How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the...

Democracy is a Design Problem

Dana Chisnell, Center for Civic Design Every great designed experience starts with the stories of individual humans. At the Center for Civic Design, Dana Chisnell and her team collected thousands of stories from U.S. voters over five years. The stories revealed two...

The Long Nose of Innovation

Using examples from the Buxton-Microsoft Collection, the argument is made that knowing our history is as important to UX designers as it is to architects, musicians or any other creative discipline. Quite apart from needlessly reinventing the wheel, such knowledge...