UNIQUEWAYS WITH THOMAS GIRARD

Nadine's work has been featured in the 5th edition of Megg's History of Graphic Design and in 2012 she was selected by Fast Company as one of its 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2016 her work was showcased in the 4th edition of First Choice which highlights the work of the 250 top global designers.

Jake Barton is an American designer, and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, New York. He is on Fast Company Magazine's list of top fifty designers and his TED Talk has over one million views.

Throughout my 30 years in the creative industry, I have worked for a corporation, a government department, four design studios, started two successful agencies, and taught and continue to teach design courses to the next generation of creatives.

I'm an executive UX and product design leader with more than 20 years of experience. I lead design transformations for high-growth companies. I love elevating the business impact of design, leveraging design as a strategic differentiator, and building design orgs to scale.

Senior Product Designer @Mixpanel. Author of Laws of UX. Creator of Humane by Design. Co-organizer of IXD2.

I am Andrea Catalina Rodriguez, a muralist and graphic designer based in Toronto, with a passion for lettering & colour. My creative vision is deeply rooted in my love for Colombia and the rich tapestry of Latin American culture.

I am a UX researcher based in New York City. I currently work as a UX research manager on the Material Design team at Google and organize Ladies That UX NYC. My work focuses on the emergent role of artificial intelligence in UX design and software development.

Amber Case studies the interactions between humans and technology, and how technology affects culture.Case is an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, and the author of four books, including Calm Technology and A Kids Book About Technology. She spent two years as a fellow at MIT's Center for Civic Media and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and was a 2021 Mozilla Fellow.Named one of Inc. Magazine's 30 under 30 and Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology, she was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012 and received the Claude Shannon Innovation Award from Bell Labs.

I lead teams and mentor designers while keeping my hands dirty in the practice. I design physical and digital services, and have been doing this and things related to this since 1997. I specialize in service design, behavioral design, and interaction design, all for increasingly complex service and product platforms. Co-author of Orchestrating Experiences from Rosenfeld Media

Throughout my 30 years in the creative industry, I have worked for a corporation, a government department, four design studios, started two successful agencies, and taught and continue to teach design courses to the next generation of creatives.

Ash is the co-founder and creative director of Six Cinquième. As a brand consultancy, Six Cinquième exists to define and build brands for visionaries who want to leave behind an impactful legacy in people's lives, their industry and the world.

Indi is a solution strategy researcher who created a method that lets teams clarify, measure, and grow their solutions and audience based on thinking styles. She works with teams on knowledge-building projects. She also teaches six applied research courses, writes books & essays, makes talks and podcast appearances, and pens helpful posts on LinkedIn.

* 24 design patents * 6 Featured Mobile apps * 6 design books in 3 languages including UX for AI: A Framework for Designing AI-Driven Products (April 2025) * Hundreds of millions in design ROI

Founder of Manic Type, Jamie Chang is a seasoned type designer and letterer based in Toronto, Canada. Jamie's work delves into expressive typography, and its textural intricacies. A graduate of Type@Cooper and holding an MA TypeMedia from The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. He now teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has spent years working on his independent practice designing typefaces and working for Canada Type and The Northern Block. 

Paul Twa is a designer and illustrator who merges the richness of maximalism with the depth of visual history to create bold, intentional, and timeless work.

Today, as chief creative officer at Bruce Mau Design, Stein likes to operate without a rigid structure and follows the ethos that there is no “right way” when it comes to creativity.

Vince is the Founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of Frost*collective. A globally recognised and awarded creative who is passionately committed to designing a better world.

Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the subject. She is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Anti/Post/Decolonial Histories, Theories, Praxes at the Decolonising the Arts Institute at University of the Arts London (UAL). She is the author of two books: Designerly Ways of Knowing: A Working Inventory of Things a Designer Should Know (Onomatopee, 2022), and Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region (Bloomsbury, 2025). www.dabdulla.com.

Rachel [she/her] is an independent creative executive shaping the future of design at the intersection of brand, culture, and technology. Since founding her SF-based consultancy in 2020, she has brought her expertise to larger companies like Airbnb and Dropbox and women-founded ventures such as Chicken & Egg Films and Acora. 

Debra has been the Design Director of The New York Times for Kids since 2017. Previously she spent more than 25 years working as an editorial Art Director designing magazines such as Rolling Stone, House and Garden, Condé Nast Traveler, Esquire and More magazine.

Hi, I'm Gurudutt — your go-to creator for blending brains, beauty, and business into seamless digital experiences.

Interdisciplinary artist, inventor, co-founder, executive, design leader, DJ, dancer, designer, and aspiring writer. Background in design, engineering, and interdisciplinary mischief. Decades of experience shipping products and experiences, including work on multiple operating systems and inventions that have now become ubiquitous and everyday.

My name is Abby Covert. I am an author, teacher and community leader in the field of information architecture. My work aims to make information architecture and sensemaking skills accessible to everyone.NRkhEgg7EQAJrPf423vA

I started learning design at two years old on my father's letterpress (yes, really - there's a photo to prove it). I've been creating ever since, following in his footsteps as a second-generation design and Creative Director.

Lou Downe is the author of Good Services, the bestselling book on how to design services that work and the founding director of the School of Good Services. Lou is the former Director of Design for the UK Government where they founded the discipline of service design, growing a 2000 strong team of designers into one of the largest, and most influential design team's in the UK - winning a Designs of the Year award and a D&AD lifetime achievement award

I make stuff like moonlearning.io and thesolo.io, and enjoy speaking at conferences about the intersection of UI design/coding and solopreneurship.

I am an award-winning designer with years of experience as a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant. Until Sunday encompasses the versatile work I do, whether that's crafting compelling and trustworthy brand stories for cutting-edge tech startups, leading innovative digital designs for global organisations, or illustrating a captivating book.

He joined Pentagram's New York office as partner in 2010. Eddie Opara was born in Wandsworth, London in 1972. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his career as a designer at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as a senior designer/art director at 2×4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office, in 2005.

Virtual Reality Developer, Industrial Designer, UX Designer, Web Developer & CG Artist

I am an award-winning designer with years of experience as a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant. Until Sunday encompasses the versatile work I do, whether that's crafting compelling and trustworthy brand stories for cutting-edge tech startups, leading innovative digital designs for global organisations, or illustrating a captivating book.

As an evangelist for design ethnography, Kelly is dedicated to understanding how real people integrate products and services into their daily lives. Kelly is founder and principal of both gotomedia and gotoresearch.

I'm Brad Frost, a design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. I wrote a book called Atomic Design, which covers all that goes into creating and maintaining effective design systems.

Luba Lukova is an American visual artist, known for her thought-provoking images and expressive poster designs. Her work has won international acclaim and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York among many others. Luba Lukova is an internationally renowned, New York-based visual artist and designer. Her powerful, thought provoking works have been exhibited around the world and are included in the permanent collections of a long list including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Her many solo exhibitions include the Smithsonian Affiliate National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; Jewish Museum Milwaukee; Museum of Design Atlanta; La MaMa Gallery, New York; The Art Institute of Boston; UNESCO, Paris; and DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan.

Natasha Jen is an award-winning designer, an educator, and a partner at Pentagram. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she joined Pentagram's New York office in 2012. A six-time National Design Award nominee.

Linn is a leading advocate for service design in Canada and co-founded Service Design Toronto in 2013. She runs Made Manifest, a boutique consultancy, leading transformational projects for clients like Mejuri, TELUS, Shopify, and the City of Toronto. She writes the Ask a Service Designer newsletter and has spoken at global conferences like Service Design Network, CanUX, and Service Design in Government. Linn has also appeared on podcasts such as the Service Design Show and Power of Ten. She loves glitter, dancing, cats, lifting heavy things, baking, and making themed playlists.Sign up for the Ask a Service Designer Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/askaservicedesigner

Liz is part designer, part educator, and full-time dog owner. Liz is VP of Design at Microsoft AI, and the Founding Chair of the MFA Interaction Design Program at the School of Visual Arts. Previously, Liz was Senior Vice President of Digital and Vice President of Design for NPR, responsible for leading human-centered design across NPR's products and platforms

Christopher Noessel is IBM's Design Principal for Applied AI. and a masters graduate from the cool but short-lived Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy.

Ivy Ross (born 1955)[1] is an American business executive, designer,[2] and Chief Design Officer for Consumer Devices at Google.[3] She has worked at Google since May 2014; prior to being appointed Chief Design Officer, she led the Google Glass team at Google X.[4][5] Ross's metal work in jewelry design is in the permanent collections of 12 international museums, including the Smithsonian. In February 2019 she was named one of the 15 Most Powerful Women at Google by Business Insider.[9]

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn't like to give in easily. When he is not writing, he's most probably running front-end & UX workshops. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems. He also runs Smart Interface Design Patterns, a video course and UX training for passionate UX designers.

I'm a product design leader and the author of four books: Designing Devices (2011), Designing Gestural Interfaces (2008), Designing for Interaction (2006, 2009) and Microinteractions (2013). I'm currently an Assistant Professor of The Practice at CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute.

I'm Gabriela Namie, a designer and art director based in New York. I've spent over 10 years harnessing systematic creative thinking to craft visuals and help brands come to life. I currently work at Google as Seed Studio's VisD Lead.

Mike Monteiro is cofounder and design director of Mule Design, an interactive design studio whose work has been called "delightfully hostile" by The New Yorker. He's written four books: Design Is a Job, You're My Favorite Client, Ruined by Design, and The Collected Angers. He's not as smart as his wife, as courageous as his daughter, or as charming as his dog. He's pretty much given up on tech and is considering a future as a lighthouse keeper or record store owner, or maybe opening a record store in a lighthouse.

previously &Walsh – is a brazilian graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. associate design director Base, teacher Aprender Design, half of Anywhere 

Yo has worked with visionary founders, ambitious CMOs and wildly talented creatives across DTC, food, retail and entertainment—basically all the fun stuff. Clients include Pinkberry (the yogurt that launched a thousand cravings), Evite (because sending paper invites is so 1800s), Winc (for those who like their wine with a side of convenience), Disney, NBC's The Today Show and Turner Networks. she's been nominated for three Emmys, which is a fancy way of saying I've almost won—thrice.

June Digan is a designer and illustrator specializing in traditional and digital mediums. A graduate of Fine Arts and Design major in advertising arts at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, June's work focuses on moods, emotions, and storytelling using delicate characters, whimsical landscapes, and lettering.

I'm Anahit Lou, a multidisciplinary designer, creative researcher, and educator with a strong affinity for modernism and a commitment to ethical design practices. Having initially pursued studies in corporate law, I redirected my path to follow my passion for design, dedicating nearly a decade to working as a designer, educator, and art director.

Hi, my name is Tea Uglow. I have been a creative since I was little and was Creative Director at Google's Creative Lab from 2007 until 2023. Now I run a creative advisory and freelance as a creative coach for agencies or studios.

I'm Ana, founder and CEO at Eight Station Rendering Studio,and co-founder of 044Bureau branding studio. My passion for detail and years of architectural experience have shaped the way I approach each project, always with your vision at the forefront.Join me as we explore the intersection of design, creativity, and storytelling, bringing spaces to life with purpose and meaning.

Lizzy Ellingson has over 20 years of experience in design and digital product solutions. She earned a Master's in Design from the School of Visual Arts. In 2021, Lizzy was named to Retail Touchpoints' 40 Under 40 list.

Hi, I'm Nu—a designer, strategist, and educator dancing between design, culture, pedagogy and socially-engaged art. My practice integrates and reframes design beyond aesthetics. I'm interested in how design can serve as a catalyst for meaningful social change, informed by my Liberian heritage and a commitment to counter-culture ideals. I believe in the regenerative power of creativity to reimagine what is possible and to shape more inclusive and sustainable futures.

I grew up in the countryside on a small island in Denmark. Everyone knew each other in our village, all the kids played together, and looking back it felt like every day was sunny. In 2017 I graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Art and Design and immediately packed my bags and headed to Vancouver, Canada. Since then this has been home and I've carved out a wonderful career here as an illustrator, lettering artist, and all-around creative.