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Seattle’s Annual User Experience Conference - Produced by Blink

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Seattle - Washington [clear filter]
Tuesday, March 3
 

9:00am PST

Welcome to ConveyUX
Session Rating
Joe Welinske will welcome you to Seattle and the annual running of this event. Then we will jump right into our opening feature presentation.
Speakers
avatar for Joe Welinske

Joe Welinske

ConveyUX Program Manager, Blink
Joe Welinske is Blink's Accessibility Director and also the Program Manager for Blink's annual conference ConveyUX.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 9:00am - 9:10am PST
Grand 1/2 Westin Hotel
  General Interest

11:10am PST

Speed Networking
Session Rating
Fun and innovative, speed networking accelerates your conference networking experience through short rounds of introductions in small-group formats. Meet 40-45 people in 45 minutes, through rotating 5 minute group introductions.
Speakers
avatar for Brigitt Rains

Brigitt Rains

VP of Operations, Blink
Brigitt Rains works on web, mobile, graphic, game design, & development to custom SharePoint applications, video, and print - now VP of Operations at Blink.
avatar for Joe Welinske

Joe Welinske

ConveyUX Program Manager, Blink
Joe Welinske is Blink's Accessibility Director and also the Program Manager for Blink's annual conference ConveyUX.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 11:10am - 12:10pm PST
Grand 3 Westin Hotel
  Social & Networking

1:00pm PST

Turning Your Design-Led Product Vision Into A Reality
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Lessons learned from the launch of Facebook's F5 - turning the bold product vision of making communities as central as friends on Facebook into a reality.
Speakers
avatar for Moneta Ho Kushner

Moneta Ho Kushner

Product Design Manager, Facebook
Moneta Ho Kushner is a product design manager at Facebook where she leads design for Facebook Groups.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 1:00pm - 1:45pm PST
Grand 2 Westin Hotel
  Design

1:00pm PST

Unexpected Path: How Different Backgrounds Led Us to UX
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Many design and research leaders started in a different field, and different backgrounds make up a good UX team. On this panel, we’ll discuss what each panelist did before they worked in UX and how it impacts their work today.
Moderators
avatar for Tom Satwicz

Tom Satwicz

User Experience Research, Blink
Tom is a UX Director and Partner at Blink and has been researching interaction and technology in homes, schools, workplaces, and beyond since the year 2000.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 1:00pm - 1:45pm PST
Grand Crescent Westin Hotel
  Panel Discussion

3:00pm PST

Smart Strategies for Building Healthy Partnerships
Session Rating
Part presentation, part discussion and part group therapy! Christina Storm will walk you through smart strategies to manage the friction between product management and UX. Come prepared with your experiences, tips and tricks.
Speakers
avatar for Christina Storm

Christina Storm

User Experience Manager, Google
Christina, as a User Experience Manager based in Google's Seattle office, is focused on developer experience for the Google Cloud Platform.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Fifth Avenue Westin Hotel
  Collaboration

3:00pm PST

The Goldilocks Zone: Riding the Inflection Point to Optimize Design
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A look at why creative processes are so difficult to optimize; a conceptual framework for optimizing the design process using economic principles; and practical strategies for getting higher quality design work faster
Speakers
avatar for Lauren Javor

Lauren Javor

UX Designer, Blink
Lauren Javor, a UX designer at Blink, is passionate about creating frictionless, lovable experiences.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Grand 2 Westin Hotel
  Design

3:00pm PST

Innovation in Research Ops
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Panelists will share some of the best practices and new ideas about research operations, focusing on innovations that improve their work, such as possibilities with AR/VR, privacy concerns and organizational best practices.
Moderators
avatar for Lauren Martin

Lauren Martin

Director, Client Relations & Partner, Blink
Lauren Martin is a director of client relations and partner at Blink, with over a decade of business management, marketing, and sales experience.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Grand Crescent Westin Hotel
  Panel Discussion

4:00pm PST

Privacy and Products: What GDPR, PII, CCPA Mean for Uxers
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Join this panel of experts as they discuss the latest in privacy policy and how it impacts user experience and digital product design.
Moderators
MH


Tuesday March 3, 2020 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
Grand Crescent Westin Hotel
  Panel Discussion

4:45pm PST

Opening Celebration
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Welcome to the ConveyUX after-session party. Blink is hosting this networking social for everyone with food & drinks while you chat with old friends and meet new ones.
Speakers
avatar for Karen Clark Cole

Karen Clark Cole

CEO & Co-Founder, Blink
Karen is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder of Blink.


Tuesday March 3, 2020 4:45pm - 6:30pm PST
Foyer Westin Hotel
  Social & Networking
 
Wednesday, March 4
 

6:45am PST

Early Morning Run/Walk
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An optional early morning guided run or walk from the Westin Seattle downhill along the waterfront, Pike Place Market to Alaskan Way, then northwest to Myrtle Edwards park. Then back uphill arriving at the Westin at 8am.

Route:

Times:
  • 6:30am - meet in the lobby
  • 6:45am - instructions and introductions
  • 6:50am - start the run
  • 7:40am - aim to be back at the hotel (3.5 mile route)

Speakers
avatar for Tim Bridgham

Tim Bridgham

UX Researcher, Blink
Tim Bridgham is a UX Researcher passionate about empathy and curiosity, uncovering insights, creating meaningful experiences, while utilizing technology.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 6:45am - 8:00am PST
Lobby Westin Hotel
  Social & Networking

9:00am PST

Object Modeling for Designers
Session Rating
Create a Narrative Object Model—an accessible approach to object modeling that uses plain-English descriptions for objects & their relationships. Then use the model to identify higher-level constructs for a design system.
Speakers
avatar for Heidi Adkisson

Heidi Adkisson

Principal UX Designer & Partner, Blink
Heidi Adkisson is a Blink partner and principal UX designer, leading complex projects since Blink’s inception.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 9:00am - 12:30pm PST
Grand Crescent Westin Hotel
  Design

1:30pm PST

Designing for Voice
Session Rating
Voice continues to grow as an important way for us to interact with our devices. This panel will feature a variety of perspectives on the use cases for voice, and how we can better design for them.
Moderators
avatar for Kelly Franznick

Kelly Franznick

Chief Innovation Officer, Co-founder & Partner, Blink
Kelly Franznick has grown Blink from two to over sixty employees, working with hundreds of clients, from tech-sector heavy hitters like Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, to startups, and non-profits.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 1:30pm - 2:15pm PST
Grand Crescent Westin Hotel
  Panel Discussion

1:30pm PST

Experience Mapping To Drive Strategy
Session Rating
Mapping the core customer experience at Alaska Airlines to develop modules based on the needs of specific product, with a supporting research program.
Speakers
avatar for Aubri Denevan

Aubri Denevan

Sr. Generative UX Researcher, Alaska Airlines
Aubri is a User Experience Researcher at Alaska Airlines, where she spends her time understanding guest motivations and needs.
avatar for Ona Anicello

Ona Anicello

UX Research Manager, Alaska Airlines
Ona Anicello is a UX Manager and built the first ever UX Research practice for Alaska Airlines.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 1:30pm - 2:15pm PST
Grand 1 Westin Hotel
  Research

2:30pm PST

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Session Rating
The speaker is presenting in the Grand 2 room. This is a room change.

Push past the comfort zone. Convert your discomfort into engagement, growth and job satisfaction. Develop a calm, confident work environment.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Stern

Peter Stern

Head of Design, Blink


Wednesday March 4, 2020 2:30pm - 3:15pm PST
Grand 2 Westin Hotel
  Growth

2:30pm PST

Challenges in Enterprise UX
Session Rating
The speaker is presenting in the Grand 1 room. This is a room change. 

Join design leaders and enterprise organization practitioners as they discuss their approach to deliver complex and dynamic design solutions.
Moderators
avatar for Anne Vande Creek

Anne Vande Creek

Director of Client Relations & Partner, Blink
Anne Vande Creek is a leader in client services, business development, and creative and strategic design services for the tech industry and consumer brands.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 2:30pm - 3:15pm PST
Grand 1 Westin Hotel
  Panel Discussion

3:15pm PST

Eyes on the Solar System (EotSS) App
Session Rating
Blink worked with NASA to uplift their Eyes on the Solar System (EotSS) app, which allows users to freely explore our solar system in real-time 3D. Simplify navigation resulted in a cinematic, story-driven publishing platform for 3D stories.
Speakers
avatar for Quba Michalski

Quba Michalski

Director of Innovation, Blink
Quba Michalski is Blink's Director of Innovation. His primary role and passion is exploring emerging technologies and finding new, exciting ways to use them.
avatar for Megan Ruhlach

Megan Ruhlach

Visual Designer, Blink
Megan Ruhlach is an architect/graphic designer turned Visual Designer, who worked in prototyping, branding, interior design, renderings, and photography.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 3:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Foyer Westin Hotel
  Project Showcase

3:15pm PST

Homeless Navigation – A Speculative Design
Session Rating
Homeless Navigation asks viewers to reflect on their personal interactions with people who are unsheltered in downtown Seattle, hoping to challenge our humanity at the individual, communal, and societal level.
Speakers
avatar for M. Colleen McDevitt

M. Colleen McDevitt

Graduate Student, University of Washington
M. Colleen McDavitt is working toward a Masters of Science in Human Centered Design & Engineering from the UW. She also works at King County Public Health.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 3:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Foyer Westin Hotel
  Project Showcase

3:15pm PST

Passport: A design system to accelerate digital product innovation
Session Rating
This showcase offers an overview of the research, design, and engineering process Blink used to create the Passport design system for MarcomCentral. Using Passport this engineering-led company has begin to unify its products, ship faster, and improve customer satisfaction.
Speakers
avatar for Brent Summers

Brent Summers

Director of Marketing, Blink
Brent makes evidenced-based recommendations related to market segments, marketing technology, and go-to-market messaging for Blink and our incredible portfolio of clients.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 3:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Foyer Westin Hotel
  Project Showcase

3:15pm PST

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
Session Rating
A geek version of the traditional Rock, Paper, Scissors game, taken to the next level with added AI features, Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, to allow for more interactive gameplay.
Speakers
avatar for Katrina Liu

Katrina Liu

UX Director, Plain Concepts
Katrina Liu is a UX Director at Plain Concepts, an international development company with offices in USA, UAE, UK, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 3:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Foyer Westin Hotel
  Project Showcase

3:15pm PST

The Disney XR Project
Session Rating
This discursive design imagining entertainment project seeks to be a powerful tool for modifying children’s behavior, to bring focus to and amplify our parental ambivalences and anxieties about using devices to get our kids to listen to us and cooperate.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin P Philbin

Kevin P Philbin

Graduate Student, UW HCDE
Kevin Philbin sees storytelling as a powerful design tool to prototype experiences and interactions for solving climate, health and wellness issues.


Wednesday March 4, 2020 3:15pm - 5:00pm PST
Foyer Westin Hotel
  Project Showcase
 
Thursday, March 5
 

9:00am PST

The UX Flywheel: How UX Strategy Enables Effective Marketing Teams
Session Rating
Blink's Flywheel is a strategy model to identify opportunities, envision new services and products, and increase customer lifetime value to enable effective marketing teams.
Speakers
avatar for Brent Summers

Brent Summers

Director of Marketing, Blink
Brent makes evidenced-based recommendations related to market segments, marketing technology, and go-to-market messaging for Blink and our incredible portfolio of clients.


Thursday March 5, 2020 9:00am - 9:45am PST
Orcas Westin Hotel
  Strategy

10:00am PST

Balancing Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives in UX Strategy
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Larry Swanson hosts the Content Strategy Insights podcast. Attendees will be part of this live and recorded panel conversation to be released as a podcast episode about a balanced approach to quantitative and qualitative research.
Moderators
avatar for Larry Swanson

Larry Swanson

Content Strategist, Elless Media
Larry Swanson is a content strategist on a mission. He hosts the Content Strategy Insights podcast and helps startups with their content strategy.


Thursday March 5, 2020 10:00am - 10:45am PST
Grand 1/2 Westin Hotel
  Strategy

3:00pm PST

Living a Life Without Secrets: Design in an Era of IoT
Session Rating
Challenges associated with designing connected products and services for the home and office in a time of the Internet of Things (IoT). What interfaces work best, what a multi-modal user experience looks like, and how to build one.
Speakers
avatar for Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham

Freelancer, Stacey on IoT
Stacey Higginbotham covers the Internet of Things and how it impacts business and our lives. She is the publisher of The Internet of Things Podcast and StaceyOnIoT.com.


Thursday March 5, 2020 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Grand 1/2 Westin Hotel
  Technology

4:40pm PST

Conference Wrap-Up
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We'll close out this year's event with some final observations, thank you's and raffle prizes.
Speakers
avatar for Joe Welinske

Joe Welinske

ConveyUX Program Manager, Blink
Joe Welinske is Blink's Accessibility Director and also the Program Manager for Blink's annual conference ConveyUX.


Thursday March 5, 2020 4:40pm - 5:00pm PST
Grand 1/2 Westin Hotel
  General Interest
 
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