Latinx Designers and Allies
Event Information
Description
Meet designers from companies that work with the latinx community!
We're going to have five wonderful designers talk to us about their experience, their ideas for the future and their opinion of the landscape.
Schedule.
6:00 - doors open
6:45 - opening remarks
6:50 - Featured Latinx speakers
Product Design for Farmers by Gilbert Guerrero
Gilbert Guerrero is a Creative Professional with over 15 years of industry experience in Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Prototyping, and Design Research. His work can be seen in everything from SAT test prep apps for teens to industrial farming analytics on mobile to websites for academic journals for art and science. He is an alumni of R/GA Interactive in New York, UCSF web development, Modem Media and a long list of boutique design studios and startups. He is an expert in user research, usability testing, ethnographic research, contextual inquiry, user-centered design, interaction design, rapid prototyping for mobile and web, and information architecture. Gilbert was born in San Jose, CA and earned a B.A. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley.
Designing for Gaming by Coraly Rosario
Lead Designer @Fingerprint
Hailing from the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, Coraly’s adventure started over 12 years ago when she first took interest in graphic design and teaching. Later, her innate interests naturally evolved into a love-affair with UI/UX in games, working with startups like Beyond Games and continuing to teach others about user research and experience design in the games industry. She currently leads as a designer at Fingerprint Play where she’s involved in the development of content platforms for children, such as Samsung Kids, and other evolving products that are focused around children’s education.
7:20 - Group panel with Q&A
8:00 - closing remarks
8:10- Networking, mixer
There will be opportunities to talk to the speakers, other attendees and Climate recruiters, before and after the talks, come enjoy some grub with us, make new friends and connect with the latinx community.