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Alex Atienza is a Senior Product Designer working on the “Carina” Design System and the Hospitality Cloud platform at Cvent. Previously, he was a designer at gaming companies like Bethesda Softworks and Zenimax Online Studios shipping https://Bethesda.net  and leading design for the game platform shipping The Elder Scrolls Online. Alex believes that transparent UX processes, cross functional teams...

Tim Quirino is a Product Designer on Facebook's News Feed & Stories. In over 6 years at the blue app, he helped launch Facebook Watch, Facebook Live, and Music Sharing. Not one to miss the opportunity for excellent wordplay, Tim lives by the ethos of Ray and Charles Eames. “The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests.” He's also a Chef and...

Jamie Cabaccang is an award-winning Product Design Leader, Inventor, a Certified Reiki Master and Founder of Techies + Wellness. She led product design at Microsoft for over 10 years for Office on the Apple platforms and invented new technology for the Windows Incubation team. She is currently a Product Design Lead at Pinterest. By designing holistic wellness experiences and transformative retreat...

Jeremy Dizon is a Senior Production Designer at Lyft, where he maintains and evolves the Lyft Product Language design system, supporting the entire Product Design organization. He honed his production design skills at companies like Google and Airbnb, where he advocated for production design as an integral part of building products. Balancing work and life as a dad of two, Jeremy also enjoys dress...

Everett is a Bay Area transplant and failed musician who exchanged the Los Angeles smog for the San Francisco fog. Raised in the LA skate punk scene of the 80s and 90s, he was naturally drawn to the counter culture epicenter that was the Bay Area. He’s currently a documentary filmmaker at Stripe, and is wrapping up Stripe Press’s first feature length release. Prior to Stripe, he was a Brand Creati...

Lacey Sabado is a UX Program Manager at Google, where she helps improve people’s everyday lives through meaningful user experiences. She completed her Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Maryland, where she was the Graduate School Commencement Speaker and Most Outstanding Graduate Assistant of 2018. She also co-founded the first student UX organization, UXTerps, at UMD. She...

Camille Villanueva is a Brand and Marketing Designer at Square, bringing product marketing campaigns to life through different media, such as illustration and photography. Four years ago, Camille took a leap of faith and left her job as a high school teacher in Los Angeles to become a designer in San Francisco. In her spare time, you'll usually find Camille juggling personal projects like puppetry...

Andrew Tolentino is a Senior Product Designer at Credit Karma designing experiences that help people make financial progress and buy their first home. His passion lies in mission driven, user-facing products that help people make progress towards their goals. At a young age, he started building his own websites, eventually transitioning to product and UX design through his internships at agencies...

Arvi is Dad, Superman fanboy and Product Designer living in San Francisco. He has over 20 years of product and brand design experience. He is currently a Sr. Product Design Manager at Glassdoor helping people to find a job and a company they love. Previously, he was a Design Lead at Fitbit, leading the Activity and Exercise team to help people lead healthier lives. He was also a former Product Des...

Kylie Timpani is a Product Designer in Silicon Valley working on the way people consume and experience TV. Previously, she was the Senior Designer at Humaan, an Australian digital agency with an aim to make technology and the experiences that come with it more human. Kylie loves to give back whether that’s by mentoring early-stage designers, organising conferences like Mixin, or sharing knowledge...

Anj Garong is a developer turned designer, now an Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship student at Thames International. She loves seeing other people happy and successful, which is why she decided to focus on teaching and workshopping, and thus, started Ang Design Co. Before that, she spent 3+ years at Sprout Solutions, where she grew the Product Design team and spread the design culture. She...

Dan Mall is the Founder & CEO of SuperFriendly, a design collaborative that helps in-house teams make better digital products with design systems. Having worked with clients like United Airlines, Harvard Business School, athenahealth, Capital One, Apple, dotdash, Google, Reader's Digest, The New York Times,  ExxonMobil, and more, Dan has a passion for playing matchmaker between surprising art dire...

Neil Bantoc is a UX Engineer on the Design Systems Engineering team at Facebook where he supports the Facebook Design System by creating standardized UI widgets that conform to the FDS design patterns and guidelines. Before this, he was a software engineer at Venmo — a PayPal company, and Freelancer.com Manila. As a student, he obtained his Bachelors in Computer Science at University of the Philip...

Archie Riva is an Enterprise UX Designer and Manager at Procter and Gamble.  From being a systems analyst and project manager in the Financial Solutions department, Archie transitioned to be a UX practitioner and became successful in incorporating UX methodologies and techniques tailored fit to the enterprise environment.  As a UX manager and having obtained master certification from Nielsen and N...

Nelson Gomez is a Product Designer at Holotech Studios designing an app called Animaze where people can make fun videos on their phone with avatars that imitate their every expression. Moreover, he has designed lifestyle web and app experiences spanning from weddings (through the Knot) to fitness to name a few. After hustling to start his career and graduating from college in the Philippines, Nels...

Andrew Abogado is the Design Lead at Saleswhale, a Singapore-based Y-Combinator startup. It’s a B2B SaaS product that deploys an AI sales assistant, helping engage and qualify leads at scale. Previously, he was a Frontend Engineer at Viki (exited, Series B) which was acquired by Rakuten. Andrew is drawn to venture-backed tech startups where he can solve big problems as well as bring big impact dur...

Cedric Lee is the UX Lead at Cambridge University Press, a leading global publishing business that aims to advance education and research worldwide. Before leading the user experience team, he previously held graphic design, UI, and UX roles from the same organization. Currently he’s taking up his Masters in Communication in De La Salle University. As a student at LPU, he championed transparency r...

Jian Adornado is a Product Designer at Netflix designing data and financial tools to shape the company’s content portfolio. He previously designed data intelligence tools for Uber and tools to control, simulate and remote operate self-driving cars for Uber’s Advanced Technologies Division. He also worked at Dropbox and Amazon. Jian is specialized in helping users monitor performance, report insigh...

Jordan Deja is an Assistant Professor in De La Salle University teaching courses like Human-Computer Interaction, Design Patterns, and Software Engineering. He is also a Community Lead of UX Philippines, the country’s largest network of UX professionals, students and enthusiasts. He helps people bridge technology and design towards better interfaces and experiences. He is also the Vice-Chair of Ma...

Oliver Bayani is a Senior UX Designer, managing user research and UX writing for digital products used by 4 million Filipinos at Home Credit Philippines. Previously, he was the Co-founder and Vice President of Product & Design of SnippetMedia, a news app boasting 2 million users. He was also a journalist for 8 years, writing about the most creative people in advertising for Marketing Magazine Phil...

Riel Reyes is an Associate Product Designer at Kalibrr. His design work includes the 40th Metro Manila Film Festival Souvenir Programme and Truelogic's brand redesign, where he previously worked as a Graphic and UI designer. He enjoyed tinkering with electronics and joining poster making contests as a kid, which he believes are the roots for his fondness in design. Riel is also passionate about hi...

Janelle Hitz is a Senior Visual Designer working on the Disney+ platform. Previously, she designed for gaming companies that include Electronic Arts and Blizzard Entertainment — working on things like Origin, Hearthstone, StarCraft II, and Heroes of the Storm. She enjoys executing the entire breadth of a design process. Janelle believes that building relationships across teams and disciplines is t...

Camille Zapata is the Lead UX/UI Designer at Tailors Mark, where she is part of a team that designs innovative solutions in the world of custom clothing — namely bespoke suits. She is a team player who enjoys moving fast to validate ideas through creative experiments, design tests, and prototypes. Previously, she designed for the growing marketplace at Carousell. She also worked with a range of br...

Andrei Gonzales is a Service and Interaction Design Associate Manager at Fjord Canberra, Australia, focusing on designing and delivering innovation for Government, Health, and Public Services. Previously, he was a Senior UX Designer at BCG Digital Ventures in Sydney, where he helped build ventures that put the customer first. Before moving to Australia, Andrei was co-founder of Hugo Manila, a Phil...

Jill Tiutan is a product designer who currently studies Cognitive Science at UCLA. She has been designing professionally for the last 5 years and was most recently a product design intern at Factual, a big data company focused on location. Prior to that, Jill has also interned at Fjord (Accenture Interactive) in LA, and at GoGuardian, where she built Enterprise tools for schools. Apart from being...