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.
2025 UX Speaker Series
Thursdays, Winter Quarter
January 9 – March 13
4:30 – 5:20 p.m.
Gowen Hall, room 201
Presentations are open to the public. Most talks will be recorded, and videos will be added to this webpage within a few days after each presentation. Talk details are added as they are available.
January 9
Brian Clark
Service Designer, Seattle Children’s Hospital
January 23
Devanshi Chauhan (HCDE MS '20)
& Rita Friendly
Senior User Experience Researcher & Design Researcher, Brooks Running
Talk details coming soon
Head of Product & Design, Planet 9 Studio
Can Designers become Founders? How to design, build, launch & land new products as a designer
February 6
Jackie Yu (HCDE BS '18)
Senior Product Designer, Viget
Talk details coming soon
February 13
Ty Williams (HCDE MS '23)
UX Researcher, Reddit
Talk details coming soon
February 20
Gage Mitchell
Founder & CEO, Modern Species
Talk details coming soon
February 27
Helen Storey
AI Strategy Advisor, PATH
Talk details coming soon
March 6
Trinh Vo Yetzer
Managing Partner, User Research International
Talk details coming soon
March 13
Presenter TBD
Talk details coming soon