Navigating change in the design world
The world has changed drastically in the last few years from COVID, AI, and layoffs. Tune in live with speakers Paul Bryan and Grace Ling to learn how you can go through a personal and professional "reset" to accomplish your goals.
We'll chat about topics on:
Recent changes in the world and how that impacts us as designers
Overcoming burnout
Setting your vision and goals using AI
Any other topics you'd like to see
About our speakers
Paul Bryan is a Managing Director of Experience Strategy Partners (ESP), spearheads global STRAT and Cre8 conferences, fostering product design strategy discussions across Asia, Europe, and the USA. With a renowned UX Strategy Workshop hosted by tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Netflix, Paul champions self-optimization through mindfulness and embodies ESP's ethos of respect and honor.
His vision emphasizes pro-humanity AI product design, launching the Cre8 conference in Singapore and the Reset Workshop in Bangkok in 2024. Paul's leadership drives ESP's mission to empower career alignment by merging personal passions, skills, and market needs in innovative product development.
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Host: Grace Ling is a founder, UX designer, illustrator, content creator, and world traveler. She founded Design Buddies and is a UX Designer at Electronic Arts.
Grace creates content about design, career, lifestyle, and travel, with an audience of 60,000+. She has been featured on the New York Times Square, Wall Street Journal, KTSF, KQED, Adobe, Discord, and more.
She's based in the SF Bay Area, been to 30+ countries, and likes to run!
Connect with Grace: LinkedIn | Instagram (self) | Instagram (art) | Twitter | TikTok | YouTube
About STRAT
STRAT APAC 2024 is a premier event for design strategy and innovation enthusiasts, specifically tailored for professionals in UX, CX, Product, Research, and Service Design. Set in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 19-20, 2024, this conference uniquely offers a series of intensive workshops rather than traditional presentations, focusing on practical skills and collaborative learning. Industry leaders from renowned organizations including Lazada, bolttech, Infosys, and others will lead these workshops, ensuring a rich environment for networking, skill development, and the exploration of cutting-edge trends and methodologies in the field.
RSVP and use code "UXSADBX10" for discount: https://strat.events/asia/tickets
Reset 2024: Using AI to Power Your Career Vision Board
The pandemic and its aftermath have greatly impacted us personally and professionally. This workshop presents a framework and methods for giving yourself a career Reset. That doesn’t mean starting over or getting a new job. It is about playing your game, your way. Like the world’s best athletes do, but in a UX / Product Design Leadership context. Mix in neuroscience, Ikigai, Zen, Carl Jung, and the natural world, to help you pursue your next career milestones in a way that is enjoyable, successful, and fully aligned with your strengths and who you are as a person. If you manage or lead a team, this workshop will give you a simple, reusable tool that will help you unlock the intrinsic motivators for optimum performance for each individual on the team.
🐰 About Design Buddies
Design Buddies is a community where you level up your design career. Land jobs, improve your design skills, and make friends. We have resources, events, design challenges, job boards, fun perks, and more. Founded by Grace Ling
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Design Buddies Conference: Design The Future
Design Buddies began online in April 2020 when Founder Grace Ling wanted to make design friends. Today with a combined audience of 200,000+, we are ready to bring you our first conference as we design our future together!
We are hosting a one day hybrid conference in-person in San Francisco and online. Make new connections, gain new skills, and come back inspired to take your career to the next level!
Topics include: Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Sustainability, Blockchain, Biotech, Space, and more.