IxDA and Experience Makers invite you to join us in an interactive Zoom webinar where a group of panelists, with mixed experiences and phases of life, will be discussing the shape of remote design work today. Our two host groups are excited to come together and discuss the timely topic of working from home. Whether you are dipping your toes for the first time or have swam for years, working from home while maintaining the design process with teams presents unique challenges and opportunities. We will have representation from design, research, and development in this webinar. Come join the conversation!

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Meet our panelists:

Jackie Halpern (UX designer, full remote, DockYard)Jacquelyn is a senior UI/UX designer based in Indianapolis working remotely for DockYard. For the past several years, Jacquelyn's been designing digital products for the following industries: education, health, entertainment, and software. Her past clients include Eli Lilly, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Accenture and Netflix.

Anna Saraceno (UX designer, full remote, Trello)Anna is a Senior Product Designer at Atlassian, where she leads design for the Enterprise tier of Trello. She has been working as part of a fully remote company for almost two years, mostly out of her home office in Irvington but with some time spent in coworking spaces and coffee shops. Anna brings knowledge and best practices for remote collaboration, design, research, and team building. Anna lives with her wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, and 4 cats at home. You may see any combination of them in her background during the panel.

Dave Hora (UX researcher, full remote, ResearchGate)Dave is fascinated by how teams work together—and what it is that makes our work work in that context. He’s been a designer and a six-time “first researcher” helping establish UX/Design research within the organization. He worked in-house and at a consultancy in the Bay Area for ~9 years, consulted remotely as Dave’s Research Company, Ltd. for ~1 year, and has recently moved to Berlin where he leads the research function at ResearchGate where he works completely remotely.

Austin Woodall (developer, partial remote, Studio Science)Austin is the Product Development Lead at Studio Science, where he builds web and mobile applications for clients. He comes from a design background, informing his perspective in the collaboration between design and development. Austin works a mixture of on-site and remote.

Poppe Guthrie — facilitator (interaction designer, partial remote, SEP)Poppe is a Indy local community organizer for IxDA, Indy Design Week, and a senior interaction designer at SEP. Poppe has been partially remote before and is now experiencing fully remote work due to current environmental conditions. Off the clock she spends her time teaching and performing in the flow arts at Cirque Indy.

Evan Strater — webinar tech manager (product designer, partial remote, Studio Science)Evan is the Product Design Lead at Studio Science, helping lead product design and research for clients across both consumer and business verticals. He has designed digital products for 7 years now and earned his BFA in Visual Communications at Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis.