Design Driven

Hi! My name is Jeff Kao and I am a UX designer working for Riot Games based in Los Angeles, CA.

I feel very fortunate that I discovered experience design in college and have spent the last 10+ years in the design field split between working in agencies and in-house. Some of my more memorable companies are Motorola, Allstate Insurance, Cars.com, and Cramer-Krasselt.

Currently, I’m the Lead UX Designer on one of several R&D teams dedicated to developing new games for Riot. It is a fascinating role where we take different systems & mechanics and try to craft an awesome game out of it.

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Brian Hull is a creative leader with over 15 years experience in driving award-winning solutions for some of the world’s largest advertising agencies, marketers and brands.

With executive creative posts at New York’s Grey, Organic, and G2, Brian has amassed a variety of B2B and B2C category experience across multiple marketing channels.

Be it Times Square signage, to in-store, in-dash, on-pack, on-line, mobile and more, Brian is a strong believer in creating unified marketing experiences that focus on being relevant, engaging, intuitive and beautiful.

Newly acquired by IBM, Brian leads the The Weather Company's Global Creative Lab teams utilizing Watson’s cognitive capabilities along with the ultimate trifecta of data–weather, location and time–to concept, create and deliver advertising products, services and experiences across all Weather Company properties.

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As Director of GeorgiaGov Interactive at the Georgia Technology Authority, Nikhil Deshpande leads the team responsible for managing Georgia.gov, the official online portal to Georgia state government, and a web-publishing platform for state agencies and elected officials.

Nikhil envisioned and led state government’s transition to an enterprise web-publishing platform based on Drupal, an open source content management system hosted in the cloud. The platform currently supports 78 state agency websites. Under his direction, Georgia became the first state in the nation to use Drupal across it's enterprise and meet special needs of constituents with a range of disabilities affecting vision, hearing, motion and cognition making the platform Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 AA compliant.

Nikhil strongly advocated the use of social media for Georgia.gov when using social media for government was not common, and established a presence for the state on Facebook and Twitter to quickly address citizens’ questions and concerns.

Nikhil also serves as adjunct faculty at the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he teaches graduate classes in Interaction Design and Game Development.

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Currently a Sr. UX Designer in McAfee's Enterprise User Experience group, Laura has over 20 years of experience as a designer and user experience practitioner. Prior to joining McAfee in early 2016, Laura worked at Intel on wireless display technology.

She has worked in corporate in-house, consulting and agency environments, and considers herself incredibly lucky to have gotten her hands dirty all over the digital world. Her industry experience includes IT security, technology, retail, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, financial services, agriculture, hospitality, and government.

Her biggest strengths lie in creating simple and elegant solutions to thorny problems, and making sure her team is solving the right problem in the first place. When not designing, she can be found enjoying all the tastes, sights and sounds the Pacific northwest has to offer.

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Charlie Deets currently designs WhatsApp. Before that he was the Lead Product Designer on Facebook Groups. He has also worked on a number of other teams at Facebook such as Privacy, Composer and Birthdays.

Before Facebook, he was working at Electric Pulp. While he was there, they built Duo, a macOS web browser for responsive web developers. He got my start in design and development at Wright, an auction house in Chicago.

He has also built and released independent apps, MOON, Blind Browser for macOS, and Tao Daily for iOS. MOON has become the most popular moon app in the world as well as won a Webby honoree. Blind was mentioned by Daring Fireball and has become a resource for web developers working in higher resolutions.

In his spare time he makes music, plays games, and relentlessly scours the internet with his wonderful gemini wife.

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As the VP of Design Education at InVision, Aarron Walter draws upon 15 years of experience running product teams and teaching design to help companies enact design best practices.

Aarron founded the UX practice at MailChimp and helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. His design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of major corporations, startups and venture capitalist firms.

He is the author of the best selling book Designing for Emotion from A Book Apart. You'll find @aarron on Twitter and Medium sharing thoughts on design. Learn more at aarronwalter.com.

Eli Woolery is the Director of Design Education at InVision. His design career spans both physical and digital products, and he has worked with companies ranging from startups (his own and others) to Fortune 500 companies.

In addition to his background in product and industrial design, he has been a professional photographer and filmmaker. He teaches the senior capstone class Implementation to undergraduate Product Designers at Stanford University. You can find Eli on Twitter and Medium.

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With more than 20 years of experience in UX, UI, product, and service design field Andrea brings skills from cognitive psychology and computer science in conjunction with a passion for UX and Human-Centered Design, brand management and marketing sensibility to his teams and projects.

He refined his education at Stanford and MIT, and he worked with, and for, companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, Noki, Ryanair, and Virgin Media.

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You might not think of Home Depot as a leader in human centered design, but 1.5 Billion transactions a year has taught them a few things. Today we'll talk with Kelly Robinson about how they're using UX and content strategy to keep customers happy and coming back for more.

Kelly is a UX content strategist with The Home Depot. She’s spearheaded content and design initiatives across multiple industries, from retailers like eBay to entertainment companies like Blue Man Group. Her specialties include information architecture, UX writing, user research, and front-end development. Kelly is an animal welfare advocate who finds delight in songwriting, camping, and spooky stories.

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You might not think about the US FDA often, but their work touches nearly every part of your life. In this episode, J talks to Michael Jovel about how they’re using design thinking to make their digital products easier to use for everyone.

Michael Jovel is a Designer and Front-end Developer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the lead on the Labcoat Design System. He also organizes the Defense Media Innovation Lab and the Bmoresponsive web conference.

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