Design systems grew out of a need to build consistent, cohesive visual experiences across devices and platforms, and to centralize and consolidate design efforts. While they create a better user experience, increase the efficiency of teams, and improve the quality of products, design systems need to be more than just inventories and deliverables if they are to be successful.

Jina will share her thoughts on using design systems to empower and strengthen your creativity while still keeping its goals of scale, maintainability, and efficiency at heart. Jina Anne is a design systems advocate and coach. At Opvitae, she’s an advisory board member focused on design.

At Amazon, Jina was Senior Design Systems Lead. At Salesforce, she was Lead Designer on the Lightning Design System. She led the CSS architecture and style guide for the Apple Online Store. She’s also worked at GitHub, Engine Yard, Crush + Lovely, and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and more. She developed projects with W3C, Mass.gov, FedEx, and more. Jina organizes the premiere design systems conference, Clarity. She founded Design Systems Coalition and its inaugural San Francisco chapter. She runs the Design Systems Slack. And she’s the Sass core team designer.

Jina coauthored Design Systems Handbook, Fancy Form Design, and The Art & Science of CSS. She’s published several articles. She’s spoken at conferences including Adobe MAX. Print Magazine featured Jina as a leading San Francisco creative. Keep the inspiration going and join us for #AIGADesignConf 2020 in Pittsburgh.

Ashleigh Axios discusses the importance of personal and professional values and how it shapes the culture around us.

Ashleigh Axios is an international speaker, strategic creative, and an advocate for design's ability to break barriers and create positive social change. She leads The Studio, where she functions as an executive creative director for Automattic, a company with the mission to democratize publishing and commerce. She is guiding the formation of the inclusion portion of Automattic’s first design language, Muriel — establishing how inclusion can be a key ingredient for the success of digital products and communications. She is an executive board member for AIGA, the professional association of design, and an editorial board member for Design Observer. Ashleigh served as the creative director and a digital strategist for the Obama White House, bridging two presidential terms, in the first-ever Office of Digital Strategy. She is also the president emeritus of AIGA Washington D.C., where she formed DotGovDesign, an initiative and conference connecting and empowering government designers. She is a graduate from, and a current alumni advisor to, Rhode Island School of Design.

Women’s pleasure has long been stigmatized — wrapped up in social constructs and gendered expectations. So designing a line of sex toys for women was anything but an easy journey. Ti Chang, industrial designer and co-founder of luxury sex toy brand CRAVE, discusses the ups, downs and in-betweens of trying to bust through stigma and start conversations using innovative design as the centerpiece. You will hear her personal story from being a designer to a sex toy entrepreneur and advocate for designing for women, and how she hustled her way from the corporate world to bootstrapping her company. She will share her journey of navigating traditional employment, building a company, and designing for social change.

Ti Chang is an industrial designer and entrepreneur passionate about designing products for women. She currently leads the concept and design for products at Crave, a San Francisco–based company specializing in discreet luxury sex toys. Its won numerous awards including Red Dot, IDEA, and Good Design. Chang founded INCOQNITO, a line of intimate accessories that double as fashionable jewelry, which was then acquired by Crave in 2011. She is best known for the design of Vesper, a vibrator necklace, a celebrated and innovative design that disrupted the adult toy industry. She currently chairs the San Francisco chapter of IDSA and Women in Design SF.

Earlier, Chang held positions with major consumer brands, including Trek Bicycle and Goody Products. She holds an M.A. in design products from Royal College of Art in London and a B.S. in industrial design from Georgia Institute of Technology. Chang grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and now enjoys life and work in San Francisco.

A.I. and machine learning are set to define the next era of digital products—and of our work. Discover your own influential role, and learn to handle this powerful new design material with care and respect. This lively and inspiring talk explores how to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction in your everyday work. Discover how to refit familiar design process to work with the grain of the algorithm, and to help the machines solve real problems without creating new ones.

Josh Clark is a UX design leader who helps organizations build products for what's next. He is founder of Big Medium, a New York design studio specializing in future-friendly interfaces for artificial intelligence, connected devices, and the web. Josh has written several books, including Designing for Touch and Tapworthy. He speaks around the world about what’s next for digital interfaces.

We’ve become an industry of blamers. We blame our clients for thrusting on us untenable and unfair contractual terms, for art directing us and for not having a clear decision-making process. We blame our clients when they don’t meet deadlines, or when they request ever increasing and unreasonably short timelines. And, we blame our clients for not respecting our values and demanding lower and lower fees. I believe most of this is within our control and that we need to move beyond the blame game and take more accountability for the decisions we make, how we respond to each situation, and the overall current state of our business practices and the industry overall. This short talk is meant to be a rallying cry for us to start understanding that how we work with one client reflects on our entire industry and will highlight some of the more damaging practices. If we don’t start pushing back more often then our continued inaction will eventually lead to long-term and negative impact on the value and, potentially, the sustainability of our industry overall. We must choose to control our own actions and shift our focus inward, as individuals, as creative businesses and as an industry overall. This talk will highlight key strategies for rethinking how we engage with, and even train and educate, our clients.

Nathan Curtis explores the qualities of well-crafted systems and how they influence digital experiences.

Nathan Curtis co-founded EightShapes with Dan Brown in 2006. He's passionate about information architecture, UX, front-end dev, and leads design systems consulting at EightShapes. He wrote Modular Web Design in 2009, blogs frequently on Medium.com, and speaks regularly at events worldwide.

Nathan has worked with design systems teams at Google, REI, Fidelity, Marriott, Cisco, Capital One, Yahoo, Sprint, Sun Microsystems, Morningstar, Target, NetApp, USAC, Key Bank, Liberty Mutual, IDEXX, Discovery Education, Carmax, Citi, Hudl, Automattic, Wells Fargo, and Wikia.

Let’s take a look at what's broken in coding culture, how we got there, and how to fix the internet's creative culture.

Anil Dash is the CEO of Glitch, the creative community where millions of people collaboratively create and share apps. Anil is one of the most prominent advocates for ethical and inclusive technology, and hosts Function, a Vox Media podcast exploring how tech shapes culture. He advised the Obama White House’s Office of Digital Strategy, was formerly a contributing editor of Wired, and was described by The New Yorker as a “blogging pioneer” for his Webby-recognized personal website. Anil collaborated with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to create one of the most popular Spotify playlists of 2018, and @anildash is the only Twitter account ever re-tweeted by both Bill Gates and Prince, succinctly encapsulating Anil’s interests.

What would you do if you could not fail? This is an interactive talk on how to break free of your “limiting beliefs” and how to conquer your critical inner voice. Includes exercises—an examination on how we assign meaning to events and how we can transform negative events into positive outcomes.

Chris Do is an Emmy Award–winning designer, director, strategist, lecturer consultant, and entrepreneur. For the last two decades, he has run the Santa Monica–based motion-design and branding agency Blind, working for iconic brands such as Nike, Xbox, Sony, and Honda. Having taught for over 15 years at ArtCenter College of Design, Do scaled his teaching efforts and founded the Futur, an online content and education platform. He has produced over 500 YouTube videos on design, branding, business, and UX, and has 300K subscribers from all over the globe.

Do currently serves as the chairman of the board for the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, and has also served as an advisory board member for AIGA/LA, the Emmys’ Motion & Title Design Peer Group, the Otis College of Art and Design Board of Governors, Santa Monica College, and Woodbury University. His firm’s work has been recognized by The Webby Awards, Communication Arts, The One Show, LA Weekly, Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, and Print among others.

In this talk, Steph shares how a global brand pioneered emotionally compelling AI design that impacted culture on a global scale.

Steph Hay is VP of Conversational AI Design and Integrated Experiences at Capital One, where she leads a team of human-centered designers who specialize in AI, ML, and ecosystem products. Her work includes Eno, Capital One's gender-neutral intelligent assistant, plus several internal platforms aimed at connecting people to relevant contextual data. Prior to joining Capital One, Steph pioneered Lean Content testing and co-founded FastCustomer, Work Design Magazine, and onenicething.com. An Ohio native, Steph loves video games, CrossFit, and BBC programs.

In this antidote to a “quit your job and do what you love” talk, Jessica explains that the key to answering the question we’ve all been asked since we were little—”What you want to be when you grow up?”—is finding out who you are in the first place. And discovering that “who you are” is never static—it shifts and transforms over and over again as you grow, change, mature, hormonally implode, etc. She’ll share transformative personal experiences that have changed how she approaches work, walk through how she balances parenting and professional life, and talk about why we should celebrate who we are and what we’re capable of at every stage—from the naive beginner to the seasoned pro.

Jessica Hische is a lettering artist and author working in San Francisco. She has had the pleasure of working for clients including Wes Anderson, The United States Postal Service, “The New York Times,” and Penguin Books. Her work has been featured in design and illustration annuals in the U.S. and internationally. She’s been named a “Print” magazine New Visual Artist (2009), as well as one of the “Forbes” 30 Under 30 in Art and Design, ADC Young Guns, and “Graphic Design USA” People to Watch.

Jennifer will share development process of Airbnb's illustrative aesthetics, describing philosophies on color, representation, and editorial voice. You’ll even hear how superstitions helped localize the style for Airbnb in China.

Jennifer Hom has been illustrating for tech for the better part of a decade. Beginning her career as a Google Doodler for 6.5 years, she's since moved from drawing/animating/carving whimsical logos to building illustration systems. In 2016 she joined Uber to design their illustration style and their first brand illustration team. Since then, she's taken on her current role as the Head of Illustration at Airbnb and tasked to redesign their illustration system from the ground up, she's created a style centered on honesty, diversity, and own-ability

Liz discusses how the things that disabled people radically fight for become the things that are empathetically done for us.

Liz Jackson is the founder of The Disabled List, which is a disability-led, self advocacy organization that is creating opportunities in design by integrating specific, disability-led ways of knowing into design pedagogy and practice. The Disabled List is committed to partnering disabled creatives with top design studios and creative spaces for three-month fellowships through a program called The WITH Fellowship.

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Most organizations (in the west) now have policies related to inclusion and diversity. Most public buildings (in the west) have been built using universal design principles. There’s only one frontier left for any consensus on inclusive design. The web (in the west). Why is accessibility not the baseline at the moment and how can we make it so?

Creative professionals have the skills needed to be great negotiators and run great businesses. Katie will show you how to use your creative skills to solve intimidating business conflicts and talk about the importance of sharing what you learn — the good and the bad — with your communities.

Katie Lane helps creators feel invincible. Since 2009, Katie has been teaching creative professionals how contracts work, what copyright law is, and how to handle client demands with ease. Drawing on her background in theatre, years of experience negotiating multi-million dollar deals, and a deep affection for all things nerdy, Katie teaches creators how to negotiate with confidence and calm.

Katie runs her own legal practice in Portland, Oregon, serving the needs of comic book creators, illustrators, game designers, and freelance writers. She currently serves as the Treasurer for AIGA Portland.

Alexis Lloyd is a design, UX, and product leader whose work focuses on creating experiences that push the boundaries of how we engage with information. She is currently the head of Design Innovation at Automattic, and has previously served as chief design officer at Axios and creative director of The New York Times R&D Lab. Lloyd’s work on the leading edge of design, technology, and UX has been presented internationally in major publications, conferences, and museums.

Roman Mars welcomes the AIGA Design Conference audience with a short story about Friedrich Fröbel.

Roman Mars, creator and host of the popular design podcast 99% Invisible, returns to host general sessions on the mainstage. Expect Roman to facilitate insightful conversations with the speakers after their presentations and to offer his trademark thought-provoking commentary. Put a face to the voice you’ve been listening to for years.

The approach to design solutions can feel quite different from one financial institution or business to another. Hear Roman Mars explain what's particularly interesting about check cashing stores.

Roman Mars, creator and host of the popular design podcast 99% Invisible, returns to host general sessions on the mainstage. Expect Roman to facilitate insightful conversations with the speakers after their presentations and to offer his trademark thought-provoking commentary. Put a face to the voice you’ve been listening to for years.

Roman Mars explains why US currency design is so flawed. Roman Mars, creator and host of the popular design podcast 99% Invisible, returns to host general sessions on the mainstage. Expect Roman to facilitate insightful conversations with the speakers after their presentations and to offer his trademark thought-provoking commentary. Put a face to the voice you’ve been listening to for years.

Psychologists refer to the “Scarcity Mindset” as a belief that there is only a finite amount of resources which encourages the behavior that anything you have you must hold on to it. Though the scarcity mindset is often used to describe economic and sociological behaviors, this talk will look at the scarcity mindset through the lens game theory. This will be a time to reflect on how we may ascribe to the belief that there isn’t enough to go around and examine how we may exhibit these behaviors, so that we can develop ways to create more abundance in ourselves and our community.

Crystal is a software Consultant at Slalom, a co-organizer of the Strange Loop Conference, and diversity in tech & business advocate.

As a Detroit Public Schools graduate, Crystal is passionate about equal access to education at all levels. She started her career in teaching in St. Louis, MO as a 2010 Teach For America Corps Member and taught middle school math in St. Louis Public Schools for four years. After her time in the classroom, she wanted to explore a career that would allow her to bring together her love for creativity, science, and community — technology was just that!

Bobby C Martin Jr. introduces the creative minds speaking in this year's branding symposia: Andrew Merriam, Director of Business Development at .design; Forest Young, Global Principal at Wolff Olins; Debbie Millman, Chair, Masters in Branding, School of Visuals Arts; and Noreen Morioka & Nicole Jacek, Co-Heads of Design at Wieden + Kennedy.

As a founding partner, Bobby C. Martin Jr. guides OCD’s culture and sets the relentless standard of design and vision for the company. Since founding the branding and design agency with Jennifer Kinon, he has partnered with a range of clients, including Girl Scouts of the USA, Dartmouth College, The New York Times, the NBA, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Prior to OCD, Martin led an internal design team in London for Nokia, where he oversaw brand identity across their global packaging. He also served as design director of Jazz at Lincoln Center where he worked with Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis to bring the brand to life and reach new audiences. Recently named by Fast Company as one of the “Most Creative People in Business,” he is a board member of the Type Directors Club. Martin earned an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, where he is now a faculty member.

Join Noreen Morioka and Nicole Jacek for a discussion on how curiosity fuels creativity and their approach to design at the global creative agency, Wieden+Kennedy.

Noreen Morioka and Nicole Jacek are the new co-heads of Wieden + Kennedy design. Together, they lead the hundred-plus employees of the design studio located at the agency’s Portland headquarters. Noreen most recently served as chief creative officer for San Francisco-based luxury skincare line Tatcha while Nicole previously ran the design agency NJ(L.A.). Noreen calls the design studio “the agency’s secret weapon. Earlier in her career, Nicole worked at prominent design firms including Sagmeister & Walsh and karlssonwilker. Noreen was a co-founder and spent 25 years at AdamsMorioka, partnering with Sean Adams, and also served in top roles in AIGA LA, receiving the AIGA Medal in 2014.

Design systems are built on top of many other systems, and each part has to be designed in context with the rest. Many people don't start creating a design system with a clean slate. We're oDesign systems are built on top of many other systems, and each part has to be designed in context with the rest. Many people don't start creating a design system with a clean slate. We're often starting with something already designed, code already deployed, and customers already using interfaces. Over time, design decisions lose their purpose as the number of people who've worked on a single page grows, and the code behind the UI has been iterated on many times. This means working on design systems in not just designing the system itself, but also creating order from chaos. Diana is a designer who specializes in design systems. At GitHub she leads their design operations team, and shapes the direction of their open-source design system—Primer. Previously, Diana helped build Etsy's design system and seller tools, cofounded a conference and network for Australian government web developers, and lead several social change and environmental design projects. Diana founded the NYC chapter of the Design Systems Coalition which has successfully held professional meetups and social gatherings for the past 3 years. Diana writes and speaks about design, code, and working with people. She coauthored the Design Systems Handbook, and speaks internationally at conferences including CSS Conf, Design Systems London, and Clarity. ften starting with something already designed, code already deployed, and customers already using interfaces. Over time, design decisions lose their purpose as the number of people who've worked on a single page grows, and the code behind the UI has been iterated on many times. This means working on design systems in not just designing the system itself, but also creating order from chaos.

Diana is a designer who specializes in design systems. At GitHub she leads their design operations team, and shapes the direction of their open-source design system—Primer. Previously, Diana helped build Etsy's design system and seller tools, cofounded a conference and network for Australian government web developers, and lead several social change and environmental design projects.

Diana founded the NYC chapter of the Design Systems Coalition which has successfully held professional meetups and social gatherings for the past 3 years. Diana writes and speaks about design, code, and working with people. She coauthored the Design Systems Handbook, and speaks internationally at conferences including CSS Conf, Design Systems London, and Clarity.

For 20 years, Debbie was the President of Sterling Brands, one of the world’s leading branding consultancies. She arrived there in 1995 when the company was two years old and had 15 employees in one office. Under her leadership, Sterling grew to 150 employees in five offices and she was instrumental in the firm’s acquisition by Omnicom in 2008. Omnicom is one of the world’s largest holding companies. While their she worked on the logo and brand identity for Burger King, Hershey’s, Haagen Dazs, Tropicana, Star Wars, and the No More movement.

Debbie is President Emeritus of AIGA, one of five women to hold the position in the organization’s 100-year history and an AIGA Medalist.

Hollywood is a world of adventure and intrigue, comedy and tragedy. And that’s what a designer’s life in the entertainment industry can be like as well. In 2010 Pash closed his design firm and moved in-house at The Walt Disney Company, where he oversaw brand and design at ABC. He recently moved to Apple, where he has the same role in their new entertainment division. Join him as he gives you a close up on this crazy and exciting industry, and shows why for designers there’s no business like show business.

Pash Pashkow is a designer, brand strategist, and educator. He currently works at Apple, where he oversees brand and design in their new original content division.

For eight years prior he was VP of Brand & Design at ABC. Before that his work spanned a wide variety of clients and industries—he designed the official logo for Miles Davis, brand extensions for Playboy, products for John Varvatos, retail product strategy for Motown Records, and advertising for Perrier.

Mauro Porcini ​shares how Pepsi embeds design into every aspect of their business, and how it drives the creation of new products and services.

Mauro Porcini, as PepsiCo’s first ever Chief Design Officer, is responsible for leading innovation by design across the company’s food and beverage portfolio, extending from physical to virtual expressions of the brands, including product, packaging, events, retail activation, architecture, and digital media.

Prior to PepsiCo, Mauro served as Chief Design Officer at 3M, he has worked in design at Philips and for his own firm Wisemad. Mauro’s broad approach to design has earned him several professional and personal recognitions.

Joni Saylor discusses design's impact at IBM, design thinking, and its intersection with business.

Joni Saylor is a Design Principal at IBM and directs IBM’s Design Thinking practice, with a mission to inspire adoption of human-centered innovation approaches across IBM’s teams and clients. She previously led IBM’s Design bootcamp for early career professionals, an interdisciplinary corporate education program that has prepareJoni Saylor discusses design's impact at IBM, design thinking, and its intersection with business. Joni Saylor is a Design Principal at IBM and directs IBM’s Design Thinking practice, with a mission to inspire adoption of human-centered innovation approaches across IBM’s teams and clients. She previously led IBM’s Design bootcamp for early career professionals, an interdisciplinary corporate education program that has prepared nearly 1000 recent graduates to join IBM's product and service teams. Saylor has held senior positions in design research and industrial design and previously taught the InnovationSpace studio at Arizona State University. Joni is a Master Inventor, recognized as a leader in creating and disclosing intellectual property. She regularly speaks with design and business audiences on design education and transformation. Her work has been recognized by IDEA, industrie Forum, HOW, and Core77. d nearly 1000 recent graduates to join IBM's product and service teams. Saylor has held senior positions in design research and industrial design and previously taught the InnovationSpace studio at Arizona State University.

Joni is a Master Inventor, recognized as a leader in creating and disclosing intellectual property. She regularly speaks with design and business audiences on design education and transformation. Her work has been recognized by IDEA, industrie Forum, HOW, and Core77.

From its inception in 2010, Warby Parker has placed a strong emphasis on creative solutions to customer problems. This talk will delve into how Warby Parker encourages creativity from every department internally (as it's grown from ten people to almost two thousand)—and the inner-workings of how those ideas are ultimately brought to life to improve the overall customer experience.

Tim Riley is the Senior Director of Experience Design for Warby Parker, where he leads a team of product managers and designers focused on creating holistic experiences across all of Warby Parker's digital platforms and stores. This includes overseeing the overall experience on WarbyParker.com, the company's iOS apps, and the custom point-of-sale system used in Warby Parker stores. As one of the first employees of Warby Parker, Tim was focused on developing Warby Parker's brand experience from the very beginning, helping launch the first ever Warby Parker annual report, WarbyBarker.com (for April Fool's Day), as well as establishing the brand's social media and email marketing teams. Fun fact about Tim: he's visited every single Major and Minor League Baseball stadium in the country (189 in total.)

Machine-learning-design researcher and artist Caroline Sinders discusses research driven art, machine learning, and design. Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces.

Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she's worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Slate, Quartz, and the Channels Festival. Sinders holds a masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program

"In in-house, nobody can hear you scream." Christine Taylor talks about her personal experience and presumptions of going in-house, and discusses the fear associated with becoming an in-house designer and how it might define one's career.

Christine Taylor from is a multidisciplinary creative with a degrees in psychology and design. Currently she is a Creative Manager in Licensing, where she oversees the creative product development and relationships between Hallmark’s internal development teams and outside movie and TV studio licensed brands like Warner Bros., DC Comics, Harry Potter, FOX, LEGO, Minecraft, NBCUniversal, Star Wars, Star Trek, and AMC’s The Walking Dead. She is also the current Creative Lead for PopMinded — Hallmark’s pop culture brand experience — overseeing the pop-up and online shops, fan convention activities, social media, webcasts and more. Previously at Hallmark, she worked as a designer in several areas of the company including books, the internal corporate marketing & branding studio, and the B2B loyalty marketing studio working with brands like State Farm and Target. As a freelancer, Taylor has created branding and collateral for local KC theaters, bars, restaurants, and nonprofit organizations. She has spoken Design & Branding conferences as well as corporate events and AIGA Chapters. She is past president and programming director of the AIGA KC Chapter and current AIGA National Board Member, where she has co-chaired the 2017 AIGA Gala Awards and is the current chair of the Corporate Relations Committee.

From arctic ice to flying cars, Forest Young discusses 10 significant projects across his career as 10 worthy pursuits to satisfy untenable curiosities. Hear the personal story behind some of the world's most influential projects and companies.

Forest Young is a designer and educator. At Wolff Olins, he leads design initiatives for some of the world’s most influential companies. He is also a critic in graphic design at the Yale University School of Art. Prior to joining Wolff Olins, Young was the executive creative director at West, leading design across a portfolio of early stage companies alongside Allison Johnson. He is currently teaching one of California College of Arts’ inaugural courses—Future Design.

Tips for Creative Hiring Managers and Job Seekers with Diane Domeyer, Executive director, The Creative Group and Kara McKevitt, Vice president and division director, The Creative Group in New Jersey.

with Matt Papendorf, North American OEM Brand and Channel Marketing Manager, Dell and Sidney Duckworth, Strategic Partner Account Executive, Dell.

with Josh Goldblum, Founder and CEO, Bluecadet.

with Caroline Sinders, Founder of Convocation.

with Christian Bason, CEO, Danish Design Centre.

with Rhonda Page, Business Development and Positioning Strategies, Brand City.

A Session for Freelancers and Entrepreneurs with Ram Castillo of The Giant Thinker.

with Scott Berkun, Author.

with Linda Joy Kattwinkel, Intellectual Property Attorney, Owen Wickersham & Erickson and Shel Perkins, President, Shel Perkins and Associates.

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with Adam Vicarel, Founder and Creative Director, Vicarel Studios, Melinda Livsey, Founder and Creative Director, Marks & Maker, Lauren Him, Designer and Letterer, and Adé Hogue, Designer and Adventurer.

with Matthew Manos, Founder, verynice.

With Matthew Manos, Founder, verynice.

with Dr. Suzanne Wertheim, Founder and CEO, Worthwhile Research & Consulting.

with Emily Campbell, Director of Experience Strategy, InVision, Greg Storey, Senior Director of Executive Programs, InVision, and Caitlin Wagner, Staff Product Designer,  InVision.

with Wendy Stryker, Co-chair of Frankfurt Kurnit, and Shel Perkins, President of Shel Perkins and Associates.

with Diane Domeyer of The Creative Group, Noeleen Heeney of D-Ford, Sal Hurrell of Bamboo Crowd, Teddy Zmrhal of Salesforce, and Stephanie Smith of IIT Institute of Design.

with Shel Perkins

With Darcy Gruttadaro, J.D.

Director, Center for Workplace Mental Health

AIGA's Lee-Sean Huang talks with Giorgia Lupi, Partner at Pentagram, about her work in data driven design and data humanism, reflecting on this moment in time and what it means for design moving forward.

Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and a Partner at Pentagram in New York. After receiving her master's degree in Architecture, she earned her PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an internationally acclaimed data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York. She is co-author of Dear Data and of the new interactive book Observe, Collect, Draw - A Visual Journal. She has been named One of "Fast Company's" 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018, and she recently joined MIT Media Lab as a Director's Fellow

Chris Pilkerton, White House Policy Advisor and former General Counsel for the U.S. Small Business Administration, shares critical information about the new CARES Act including how to apply to the Paycheck Protection Program and Disaster Loan Assistance.

Justin Dauer, Vice President of Human-Centered Design and Development, bswift.

Leon Rodriguez, Instructor, Art Center College of Design

Heather Olson, AIGA Fellow and Founder, Soladay Olson
Timmy Parker, Freelance Creative Director
Phen Grant, Artist
Grace Ling, UX Design Intern, Electronic Arts (EA)