Host: Hayley Hughes from IBM. Speakers: Salih Abdul-Karim from Airbnb, Tim Allen from Microsoft and Jane Makich from Google. Design systems teams are the connection between companies products/services experienced by users. These teams are diverse, on the cutting edge of advancing technology and create the best new design future for their company. In Friday’s panel […]
John S. Couch is the Vice President of UX and Design at Hulu(hulu.com). With a rich background in entertainment, Couch has worked with companies like eBay and CBS, and is also fluent in Japanese. He’s lived in places all over the world including Europe and Japan, until he made his home in California. He will […]
Lander Coronado Garcia is a product strategy lead at Thinktiv, an innovation and design consultancy located in downtown Austin, Texas.
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I’m sure you’ve seen GIFs exploding on the Internet this year. Who doesn’t love a funny cat GIF here and there? In case you’ve been hiding under a rock your whole life and don’t know what a GIF is, it is a three to five second looped video. A GIF can sometimes express more than […]