IxDA Seattle presents this event as part of the Seattle Design Festival. This event is hosted by The Collective Seattle.

As humans (who also happen to be designers) we balance a variety of things in our daily lives, such as: family and career, business and community, local and global focus, human and high tech consideration, accessibility, ethics, and many other themes. But we rarely have an opportunity to share with one another our vulnerabilities, our successes, and most importantly, our failures. This event will give us the opportunity to learn from designers in different fields about their own, personal balancing acts. Hear stories from your fellow designers about they find and maintain balance; how they shift or re-align balance; and perhaps even how they reject balance.

Topics & Speakers

• Independence or Collaboration? 
  How can you balance who you are as an individual with working with a team?
  - Tarryn Lambert, UX Designer and Researcher at Tarryn Lambert Consulting

• Duality of Excellence (or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love my Steppenwolf)
  Can an unbalanced approach to your design process create better work?
  - Loren O'Laughlin, Design Manager at Level 11

• Counterintuitive Design
  What if the best design decisions seem completely counter to “sensible” design choices?
  - Jason Kopec, Design Director at Convoy

• Trying to find my chill
  Nature vs nurture? Who cares? Liz shares her journey to break down and overcome the worst in herself, while still keeping the parts that help make her a good designer.
  - Liz Heidner, Freelance Product Designer

• Married to UX
  Work/life balance can be a challenge when you work with your spouse! Can a working relationship help bring better harmony and balance to personal and professional lives?
  - Ryan Breault, Experience Architect at projekt202

• Finding balance as a new designer
  When life is in transition mode, how do you try to find balance? Linh explores accepting your current state while still improving as a designer, work collaborator.
  - Linh Tran, UX Designer at Expedia Group

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