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Speak the Truth: DesignThinkers 2018
Looking Back: DesignThinkers 2018 Branding by Zulu Alpha Kilo
Ryan Booth RGD
Kinkos and Crying
Tosh Hall
Can you handle the truth?
Bruno Maag
The Truth about Clients
Erin Sarofsky
Future Design
Forest Young
Panel: What does it mean to fail forward?
Pioneers! oh Pioneers!
Michelle Dougherty
True North: The Compass Creative Journey
Matt Spangler
Unknowing by Mitch Goldstein
Beyond Bespoke
Kat Downs Mulder
Panel: Discrimination in the creative industry – Really?
The Irrational Customer + Brand Desire
Jean-Pierre Lacroix RGD
Punk's not dead
Josh Higgins
How To
Michael Bierut
The Needle Moves Both Ways
Michael Lejeune
Truthfully, our Design Industry is not Diverse — And that’s a Problem!
Angela Bains
The Commoditization of Empathy
Martha Cotton
UnBoxing the Museum: Better Experiences through Design
Clare Brown
Panel: Design for Social Good
Jay Wall RGD
Signs of Resistance by Bonnie Siegler
We’re all in this together by Dawn Hancock
Center of Attention
Alex Center
It's Your Fault
Emily Cohen
Augmenting the everyday through design
Robert Brunner
Basslines & Riffs
Laura Stein RGD
Building a Creative Culture
Lisa Smith
Make it til you Nake it
Natalie Lam, Mauricio Alarcon
Getting Personal Projects Made
Anton Repponen & Irene Pereyra
Transforming Design Research into Meaningful Design
Ian Chalmers RGD, Pivot Design Group Inc.
Panel: All about UX
We build machines. Sometimes they catch fire.
Andrew Zolty
Where is Canadian design going?
Fidel Pena-Guzman RGD
Finding Yourself, Over and Over Again
Jessica Hische
Interactions speak louder than words by Kemp Attwood
Creative Companionship
Leta Sobierajski & Wade Jeffree
AI + the Future of Graphic Design
John Furneaux RGD
The Designer as Publisher
Adrian Shaughnessy
How to build and manage an empowered, creative team
Stephen Gates
Taking a Design Stretch
Samantha Warren
Towards a Total Design
Randy Hunt
Canada’s truth is out there—are we listening?
Judy Snaydon
How to Change Your UX Without Inciting Revolution
Krys Blackwood
Designing for Behaviour Change
Grace Hwang
Bigger Isn't Better
Aaron Draplin
Design for Sensory Experience
Ellen Lupton
Do Designers use Design Thinking?
Pia Betton
Going fast to nowhere
Sebastian Padilla
Design Truths I Can’t Take Credit For
Ian Grais RGD
Have Designers Forgotten How to Enjoy the Ride?
Bob Hambly RGD Emeritus
Full Time You
Meg Lewis
The truth is, we’re all going to be replaced by bots and automation
Carson Ting
The Simple Truth, or Lightning Bolts for Designers
Vida Jurcic RGD
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