About Women Talk Design Speaker Stories

There isn’t one singular path to public speaking. Folks decide to speak for a variety of reasons, get started in different ways, and have their own techniques for preparing for talks and dealing with nerves.

Learn about the journeys and experiences of incredible women and nonbinary speakers with our new series: Women Talk Design Speaker Stories. Join us each week as we interview one of our speakers to learn the topics they are currently speaking about and why, how they find speaking opportunities, their advice for getting started with public speaking, and more.

You’ll have the opportunity to ask your own questions and connect with folks from the Women Talk Design community. We hope you’ll leave inspired to share your own ideas and experiences, and get out there and speak.

Stick around after the conversation for breakout discussions. During this time you can connect with other people in the Women Talk Design community and discuss what you learned.

Agenda

• 5 minutes | Welcome
• 20 minutes | Conversation with Val Head
• 20 minutes | Audience Q&A
• 15 minutes | Breakout conversations

Come with your questions! We’ll see you soon.

About our Speaker

Val Head is a Senior Design Advocate at Adobe, author, and web animation expert. She is the author of Designing Interface Animation on Rosenfeld Media, teaches CSS Animation on lynda.com, and curates the weekly UI Animation Newsletter. Val has been published by Fast Company, A List Apart, and Smashing Magazine, and she’s spoken at dozens of events all over the world including Pixel Up, Web Directions, UX Week, and An Event Apart.

Event Details:

The $5 ticket fee goes directly to our speakers. We don’t want anyone to be turned away due to lack of funds. If the ticket fee is a barrier, please use the code THANKSXD to register for a free ticket, thanks to AdobeXD.

You will receive a link to join the Zoom 24 hours prior to the event.

Automated captioning will be available.

The event is open to everyone. Please take a moment to read through Women Talk Design's Code of Conduct before RSVPing. You can see a complete list of Women Talk Design's upcoming events here.

Special Thanks:

Thanks to AdobeXD for their sponsorship of this event series.