Speakers
Join us for about three hours of talks, discussions and questions about Magical UX by our amazing speakers. Hosted by Vitaly Friedman. We have three amazing speakers who are very experienced UX-ers and speakers, and we are so happy to host them. So see you there!
Our speakers…
- are knowledgeable and experienced,
- provide practical take-aways and examples you can use in your own projects,
- show how they work, not just talk about it,
- can’t wait to share their knowledge ,
- and are smashingly nice.
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Marco-Christian Krenn
Marco-Christian Krenn is a Design System Architect from Austria who is passionate about solving design with logical decisions, headless architecture, and design tokens. As part of Tokens Studio, he's deeply involved in working on Generators and Resolvers, striving to innovate and enhance the field of design systems.
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Chiara Aliotta
An award-winning designer, Chiara Aliotta is the founder of Until Sunday, a creative agency that encapsulates her obsession with colour, typography, and detail. Chiara wears many creative ‘hats’, with years of experience as a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant under her belt. Not only does she write and speak regularly about design-led storytelling, she has also directed impactful visual brand development for renowned global organisations.
Whether she’s creating an immersive digital journey or a compelling design for print, Chiara’s ideas are characterised by the enduring power of storytelling. She skilfully combines her deep understanding of classic tales, with an instinctive sense of what makes a story memorable, to create user experiences that pack an emotional punch.
Born in Italy, Chiara now resides on the beautiful island of Syros with her husband, with whom she co-runs an art gallery and a personal lifestyle project, The Pattern Tales.
And because at Smashing Magazine, cats are the protagonists… Her beloved cat Kissa provides inspiration… and the occasional cuddle!- Talk
- Embracing the Magic of Narrative UX
- On the web
- http://untilsunday.it
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Stéphanie Walter
Stéphanie is a User Researcher and Inclusive Designer who focuses on building user-centered, inclusive and accessible products and services. She spent the last 12+ years helping her clients deliver successful projects in different industries (banking, financial, automotive, healthcare, press, travel, etc.)
She likes to share her passion for her UX work all around the world. She has taken this beyond her successful blog, conferences and workshops. She discusses a wide range of topics, including mobile UX, enterprise UX, cognitive biases, inclusive design, design process and designer — developer relationship. You can follow her on social media for qualitative curated UX design content.
- Talk
- Designing Beyond The Happy Path
- On the web
- https://stephaniewalter.design
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Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running front-end/UX workshops and webinars. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems.
- On the web
- https://smashingmagazine.com