SESSION TITLE
Experts, Volunteers, and Unicorns: Understanding UX Players and Where You Fit In
DESCRIPTION
TOWNHALL: What are HCI and UX? Sleek Interface + Magic + Beautiful Design + ʺMake it coolʺ? Is successful UX about copying the winners or starting from a blank canvas? Let’s discuss the state of UX, today’s key UX players and where you fit in!
PRESENTER BIO
Monet Spells is a user experience design professional. Newly residing in Atlanta, Monet flexes her brain muscles at Georgia Tech, where she is pursuing a MS in Human-Computer Interaction. Monet spent four years as a Product Manager at a successful New York start up, where she buffed up her road mapping, performance metric tracking, agile product management, feature specification, iterative feature planning, and team leading skills.
Monet is interested in exploring the ways in which technology can be more deeply integrated into our daily lives without disrupting meaningful people-to-people interactions. She is a product enthusiast and spends her mental spare time innovating solutions to every day problems, simplifying clunky interfaces, and brainstorming industry-wide shifts in technology.
