Uday Gajendar

" Silos are everywhere—in technology companies, retail, inside silos inside silos. "

" Mass production is here to stay; how do we make it more humanistic? "

" Sponsor sessions are so great that people want recordings. They’re not sales pitches. "

" It's really hard to have a conversation if you’ve got a pen and you’re writing and not really paying attention. "

" Collaboration with peers and speaker coaches creates better content and stronger relationships beyond the conference. "

" Through this final set of speakers, we hope to inspire you with a pathway through this massive topic. "

" Cheryl will connect design thinking approaches to systems thinking, laying down foundational concepts. "

" Good ethical trauma responsive design should really be what we just call design — it should be intrinsic. "

" Trauma is not so much an external event as it is the way that event embeds in individual bodies. "

" If you work with humans, you work with trauma; it’s inherent in human experience. "

" Design has to incorporate intellectual humanism—remembering we’re designing for people, with people. "

" Mergers and acquisitions require us to carefully avoid pitfalls when unifying user experiences. "

" Usually, the users not adopting the product alerts the organization that deeper issues exist beyond UI. "

" That seven-foot-wide diagram was our product, not just the cleaned-up UI screens—this artifact triggered a whole new conversation. "