Annually in winter quarter, the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering hosts a 10-week seminar series on User Experience (UX), where we welcome industry experts to speak about current topics in the field.
2025 UX Speaker Series
Thursdays, Winter Quarter
January 9 – March 13
4:30 – 5:20 p.m.
Gowen Hall, room 201
Presentations are open to the public. Most talks will be recorded, and videos will be added to this webpage within a few days after each presentation. Talk details are added as they are available.
January 9
Brian Clark
Service Designer, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Senior Consumer Insights Qualitative Researcher & Design Researcher, Brooks Running
Empowering Decisions with Consumer Insights: A Brooks Running Approach
Head of Product & Design, Planet 9 Studio
Can Designers become Founders? How to design, build, launch & land new products as a designer
Senior Product Designer, Viget
Product Design at an Agency
Note this talk will be held over Zoom.
Senior UX Researcher, Reddit
Design Against the Dark Side: UX's Role in Online Trust & Safety
February 20
Gage Mitchell
Founder & CEO, Modern Species
Talk details coming soon
February 27
Helen Storey
AI Strategy Advisor, PATH
Talk details coming soon
Managing Partner, User Research International
Talk details coming soon
March 13
Presenter TBD
Talk details coming soon