Are you wondering what next steps to take in your design career and how you can get to the next level? Listen in as our panel of powerhouse female product & UX designers share their own stories, lessons learned, and advice for finding success as a woman in design. We cover everything from creating your online portfolio to building confidence as a design leader to managing work/life balance, and more!
Emanuela helps companies empathise with their users when building (better) products based on efficient and practical design practices. Emanuela fell in love with the Web at a young age, and since then she has never stopped learning and pushing to understand and create better experiences for all. Today she is a UX designer with Mozilla, currently building a design system for Firefox. In her spare time, she likes to watch kitten videos, and she never says no to a good cocktail.
Deepali Kakar is a UX designer with expertise in building products, teams, and culture. Over the past 20 years she has helped establish UX practices in heavily regulated companies including E*TRADE Financial and Goldman Sachs. She strongly believes in creating open, collaborative, and safe environments to help team members perform at their best. Outside of her daily work, Deepali enjoys mentoring the next generation of designers and has been an advisor in the Beginex design program in NYC.Â
As an agile practitioner within the Digital Design team, I am a servant leader supporting a growing team of user-experience professionals. The Digital Design Program Coach (Agile) is critical in ensuring that design teams are able to plan and execute their day-to-day work, filling a hybrid role on the agile design team. Â This role blends the traditional responsibilities of Scrum/Agile practices and design lead thinking/ integration, to satisfy the needs of creative team members and support delivery.
Frankie is a New York City-based Experience Designer who’s passionate about breaking the barrier of entry for beginner UXers. Although she has only been in the field for less than three years, she has already worked at a startup, adesign agency, and a corporate company and focuses a lot of her time on mentoring upcoming designers. She has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Design. When she is not designing, she is creating LinkedIn and Instagram content or working out.
As a customer experience design manager, Rory's focus is on creating a best in class experience across all channels while balancing business goals and inevitable technical challenges. As a champion for the customer, Rory urges her clients to engage in user testing and research to ensure the project’s strategy aligns with their customer’s goals. She's had the benefit of working across many different industries allowing her to gain a broad, adaptable skillset in UX/UI, product management, and marketing. Her body of work includes Web Consulting, Consumer Retail, Biopharma, Financial Services, Insurance, and the Healthcare Industry services.
