Willy Lai
About the Organizer
Willy Lai is an award-winning user experience and product design leader with over two decades of driving product-led growth and shipping world-class products at top tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Apple, Samsung, PayPal, Intuit, and eBay. He currently leads product design as Chief Design Officer for Haggleland, a tech startup, and was previously Vice President of Product Design and User Experience for Macy’s, leading omni-channel design for Macy’s app, website, and retail stores. Prior to Macy’s, Willy held Director of User Experience positions for Apple's FileMaker business software and Samsung's Milk Music streaming music apps. Willy has also led large-scale, global redesigns for PayPal, Intuit, eBay, and AOL. His designs strategically align user needs and business goals, and have garnered over 70 international design awards, including The Webby Awards, Communication Arts, A’Design, Good Design, and International Design Awards. Willy has been named a “UX Design Guru” by Design Bureau, Future Collars, and INNPoland, and one of “10 UX Influencers to Follow” by Speckyboy Design Magazine.
An international keynote speaker and workshop instructor, Willy has taught user experience and product design in England, Germany, Poland, Spain, Austria, China, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, South Africa, and the United States. He has lectured and mentored at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, ArtCenter College of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, School of Visual Arts, UC Irvine, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and New York University. He has also held advisory board roles for UCLA Extension, UCSC Extension, and General Assembly, shaping user experience and product design curriculums. Willy holds a degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.
More Info:
linkedin.com/in/willylai (profile)
linkedin.com/company/willylai (workshops)
facebook.com/UXworkshops (workshops)
@willylaidesign (instagram & twitter)
willylai@willylai.com (email)
Named one of “10 UX Influencers to Follow” by Speckyboy Design Magazine
Named a “UX Guru” and Profiled in Design Bureau Magazine
Profiled in iMagazine at Google Campus Warsaw UX Design Workshop
About the Workshops
"Designing UX with Willy Lai" is a series of international UX design workshops taught in person by Willy Lai, an award-winning UX and product design leader with over two decades at top tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Apple, Samsung, PayPal, Intuit, and eBay. Named a “UX Design Guru” by Design Bureau, Future Collars, and INNPoland, and one of "10 UX Influencers to Follow" by Speckyboy Design Magazine, Willy has taught UX design workshops worldwide. Workshop topics include all phases of the UX design process, user-centered design, business strategy and ROI of UX, design principles and methodologies, ideation and concept development, design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, presentation skills, and career development. Past participants include companies and institutions such as Emirates, Pinterest, Google, PKO Bank Polski, Toptal, University Cape Town, Reuters, Canada Inns, KPMG, Mirum, Genentech, Viacom, and Orange.
Selected Workshops:
• Pratt Institute, New York (Mar 2022) bit.ly/3Dtp6jc
• Cairo, Egypt (Apr 2019) https://bit.ly/2RoMYg1
• Cape Town, South Africa (Nov 2018) https://bit.ly/2zv2TBy | https://bit.ly/2T0BjDB
• Winnipeg, Canada (Jan 2018) https://bit.ly/2Pte1o5 | http://bit.ly/2EB4O92
• Dubai, U.A.E. (Nov 2017) http://bit.ly/2As1Q81
• Berlin, Germany (Oct 2017)
• London, England (Oct 2017)
• LG, Santa Clara (Oct 2017)
• San Francisco (Sept 2017) https://bit.ly/2XpserP
• New York (July 2017) https://bit.ly/3ei0U5G
• Boston (July 2017)
• Nickelodeon (Viacom), New York (July 2017) http://bit.ly/2AMiNqz
• Los Angeles (May 2017)
• Google Campus Warsaw, Poland (Jan 2017) https://bit.ly/3egYfsO
• Citrix, Santa Clara (Mar 2015)
“I had recently attended a Nielsen-Norman Group conference in San Francisco and found Willy’s Workshop to be much more valuable, not to mention way more fun, engaging and interactive!” – Steve Eliopoulos, Front-end Developer/Designer
More Info:
linkedin.com/in/willylai (profile)
linkedin.com/company/willylai (workshops)
facebook.com/UXworkshops (workshops)
@willylaidesign (instagram & twitter)
willylai@willylai.com (email)