Driving Sustainable Growth and Competitive Advantage Through Human-Centered Design
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This page shows historical information on the Design Thinking 2017 Conference, held on April 24-26, 2017 in Austin,
TX,
United States
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Design Thinking 2017 isn't your typical user conference. The event gathers the many practitioners, in and outside of the design function, who've identified Design Thinking as a useful problem-solving tool. Featuring plenary keynotes/panels and interactive track workshops, plus a master class termed Design Thinking University, you'll gain the insights and inspiration you need to operationalize Design Thinking both functionally and as a business strategy. Unfamiliar with the Design Thinking process? Here's a quick primer:
Empathize - Fully understand the perspective of your user or customer. Look through their eyes.
Define - Based on your empathy, culminate your findings to determine your problem statement and what will be the focus of your design,
Ideate - Generate a large pool of various possible solutions, leaving no stone unturned to explore solutions beyond the obvious.
Prototype - Transform conceptual ideas into a physical, tangible form in which you and your peers can interact.
Test - Try out refined prototypes, garner feedback, learn more about the user and their experience, and refine your perspective.
Iterate - Continue repeating the process, maintaining continuous focus on the user or customer.
What to Expect at Design Thinking?
Design Thinking University
Experience the design thinking process under the facilitation of an industry bellwether
Interact with Downtown Austin to identify and design think around a specific problem
Collaborate with cohorts across industries and functions
HCD Maturity Roundtables
New to Design Thinking: Fostering Small Wins to Gain Momentum
Design Thinking Veterans: Overcoming Cultural Buy-In Permafrost
Design-Led Company: Maintaining Momentum in Your Design Process
Functional Benchmarking Think Tanks
Experience Designers: Leveraging Left/Right Brain Skillsets and the Evolution of UX/CX
Innovators: Reinventing the ''Incremental'' Mindset for a Long-Term, Disruptive Pipeline
Human Factors Engineers: The Intersections of Design Thinking, Agile and Lean
Design-Led Business Strategies
How to Valuate and Sell Design Thinking to Management
Phasing Design-Led Transformation while Serving Customers
Best Practices and Successes when Right-Sizing Your Design Thinking Strategy
Speakers
Brian Aiken, SVP Product Development, Skyrocket Toys
Renee Anderson, Acting Lead, Insight and Design, Veterans Experience Office, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Jordan Andres, Managing Director & Chief Innovation Evangelist, Factor6, LLC
David Bingham, Director, User Experience, GE Digital
Doug Beaudet, Vice President Global Experience Design, Honeywell
Robin Beers, SVP and Head of Customer Experience Insights - Wholesale Internet Services, WellsFargo
Tom Burchard, Vice President, Experience Design, Altitude | Accenture
Jonathan Campbell, Senior Vice President, Experience & Service Design, Continuum
Joe Cesa, Global Design Leader - Human Centered Design, Halyard Health
Joanna Cook, Director Experience Design, Digital Engineering, Autodesk
Xavi Cortadellas, Head of Design and Innovation, Gatorade
Jennifer Cullem, Vice President, User Experience & Design, Bitly
Adam Cutler, Distinguished Designer, Design Practices Director, IBM
Christopher Daly, Head of Experience & Product Design, Sotheby's
Mark Ferencik, User Experience Leader, Product Owner, McKesson
Jose de Francisco, Design Director, Human Factors Engineering, Nokia
David Dombrowski, Director, Industrial Design & Innovation, Pfizer Consumer Health Care
Antoine Grant, Director of Business Development, Originate
Amy Hedrick, Executive Director, North America, LUMA Institute
Site Tour: IBM Studios Austin Site Tour, 2:00pm - 5:30pm
The agenda is available as PDF under downloads at the right side of the page.
Venue
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Who Will You Meet?
To give you a feel for the peers in which you’ll be sitting beside at this event, we have provided a list of titles and companies in which we expect interest and attendance.
Whether you work in experience design, innovation, human factors engineering or evangelizing design thinking in your organization, this conference will deliver you immediately applicable value.
Expected Participants
Chief Design/Innovation/Customer Officers
VPs/Directors of Experience Design
VPs/Directors of Customer Experience (CX)
VPs/Directors of User Experience (UX)
VPs/Directors of Design Thinking
VPs/Directors of Human-Centered Design
VPs/Directors of Innovation/Ideation/R&D
VPs/Directors of Agile Transformation
VPs/Directors of Human Factors Engineering
VPs/Directors of Product Development
Venue
W Austin Downtown 200 Lavaca Street Austin TX 78701 United States Website: http://www.whotelaustin.com/ Phone: 5125423600
Accommodation More information to follow...
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