Uncharted Minds: Silicon Valley Design Gurus from Airbnb, Medium & Lyft Share Their Secrets | San Francisco

About this event

With the release of the Apple Watch, the screen size that designers need to take into account just keep getting smaller. At the same time, product complexity and users' expectations continue to increase. How do some of Silicon Valley's best designers walk the highwire and maintain the right balance between these two seemingly opposed trends? On this panel, top design gurus will share their thoughts on how they solve for complexity in a multi-screen, multi-device world.

About the Speakers

Dustin Senos - (former) Head of Design, Medium

Dustin is passionate about creating rewarding interactions between humans and technology. He believes in paper prototyping, quick iterations, and sharing empathy with your audience. He lead product design at Medium for four years, but recently left to puruse other interests. Prior to that he was a software engineer at Disney's Club Penguin.

Frank Yoo - Head of Product Design, Lyft

Frank is the Head of Product Design at Lyft where he's focused on building experiences that connect people through transportation and community. His background is rooted in UX and product management, with prior roles leading design at LinkedIn and Yahoo!. He's a dad, a husband, and principle frisbee chucker for the family Boston Terrier, Arial.

Keenan Cummings - Experience Architecture Lead / Design Manager, Airbnb

After years of working as a brand strategist and graphic designer Cummings decided to move into product design. He cofounded a company in NYC called Wander, launched a product called Days, and later sold to Yahoo. He now leads the Experience Architecture design team at Airbnb. Where he builds design systems to support the quality and consistency of product work at Airbnb and develops new platforms for users. In his free time he runs an event series called Designers Debate Club and blog at blog.keenancummings.com

Moderator and Host

Gregory Kennedy - Co-Founder, Uncharted Minds

A former UI designer and creative director, Kennnedy is a sought after thought leader, speaker and author whose writing has been featured on The BBC, VentureBeat, YahooFinance, Entrepreneur.com, CMO.com, and Marketing Profs.

Agenda

6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Networking and refreshments

7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Panel discussion

8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Wrap up and meet the speakers