Annually in winter quarter, the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering hosts a 10-week seminar series on User Experience (UX), where we welcome industry experts to speak about current topics in the field.
2024 UX Speaker Series
January 4
Matt Shobe: Confessions of an Optimist
Startup founder and entrepreneur
HCDE MS, 1996
Interaction Designer, IDEO
HCDE BS, 2021
Master Craftsman, Fearless Innovator, Design Leader & Pragmatic Collaborator
January 25
James Tee: The future of design careers in a post GenAI world
Principal Design Manager, Microsoft Azure AI Platform
February 1
Yolanda Barton: Revolutionizing Tech Culture: The Revere XR Story and Its Oculus Launchpad Triumph
Founder, RevereXR
February 8
Erica Jorgensen: Content design partnership: The key to UX impact
Content Designer, Chewy
February 15
Andrea Chin: Essential UX: An introduction to non-discretionary experiences
Senior Staff UX Researcher, Achieve
HCDE MS, 2014
UX Research Manager, Uber
HCDE BS, 2016
February 29
Todd Allmond: Service Design for Complex and Impactful Experiences
Principal Design Director, Experience Research and Design (XSD) Studio, Microsoft
March 7
Jess Holbrook: 10 years finding the role of UX in AI
Director and Principal Researcher, Generative AI at Meta