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A place for design & great experiences

Nordic.design will take place at Nobelberget, a new international venue for music, art and food – located just 10 minutes from the city centre.

Speakers

Dr. Kate Stone
PhD exam in physics, University of Cambridge, and founder of the company Novalia

Bloomberg has predicted that Dr Kate Stone is going to shake up the world as we know it - in short, she's a game changer. 

With a degree in Electronics and a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University; she founded the award winning lab Novalia to explore the space where traditional print and conventional electronics converge, and has been living in that world ever since. 

Some people expect the future to look like the film Minority Report, but Dr Kate Stone believes the opposite - she wants to infuse our current analogue world with electronics so that everything looks like it always has.... except that it can come alive through interaction. Imagine a world where a teenager’s bedroom poster comes to life with the launch of a new album, or an LP that enables you to DJ from the actual record sleeve itself, or a notebook that actually plays musical notes? This is the world Dr Kate Stone is creating - by adding 'digital soul' to everyday flat surfaces that we take for granted, she is changing the world as we know it. 

Using her patented interactive print Dr Kate Stone is adding interaction and capacitive touch to everything from hats and mandalas through to packaging and books - and connecting them to the internet, she is creating a new frontier for traditional industries that we already know and love, and who until now have been locked out of the technology age.

Jennifer Daniel
Creative Director of Expression Design at Google

Jennifer Daniel is the Creative Director on the Expression design team at Google, overseeing creative direction across Google’s communications products. Her work designing machine learning generated selfie stickers in Allo, Google’s messaging app, was recognized by Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards in 2017.

Prior to joining Google, Jennifer was an Art Director and Graphics Editor at the New York Times for 10 years. During her time there, she worked in the newsroom covering a breadth of topics—ranging from government shutdowns, to the Olympics, to goth culture. From there, Jennifer went on to become the Graphics Director at Bloomberg Businessweek, where she oversaw the graphics for a number of award-winning issues (including the “It’s Global Warming, Stupid” and “The Steve Jobs Memorial” issues). Her illustrations have been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Wired.

When not at work, Jennifer can be found playing hide-and-seek with her twin toddlers in their yurt in Berkeley, California.

Dr. Camela Logan
UX researcher at Facebook

Dr. Camela Logan is a UX researcher at Facebook with a background in cultural anthropology and foreign languages, and a strong conviction in the power of fostering cross-cultural communication among product teams. Outside of digging into what matters most to people from cultures other than her own, her super powers include thoughtful gift giving and baking (she's also an award-winning French pastry chef).

Isha Kasliwal
Senior UI/UX Designer Developer at Twitch

Originally from the east coast, Isha traded New York City for San Francisco to join a group of creative thinkers that are focused on solving problems at the forefront of frontend design. Isha is a Senior UI/UX Designer Developer working on the design system at Twitch. 

Previously, she was a Senior UX Engineer on the Design Systems team at Salesforce, who works on architecting scalable CSS for the Lightning Design System. She also worked as both a frontend engineer and UX designer at a fashion tech startup for 3 years. As a systems thinker, she designs, builds, operates, and maintains the links and interactions between functional components and visual designs.

While her day job includes concentrating on patterns and style guides, she’s also passionate about art, technology, and science, and where they all intersect. On the weekends, you can find her somewhere outdoors, eating a lot and looking for adventure.

Mala Kumar
UX/UI Designer at UNICEF

Mala is a tech for international development (ICT4D) professional who specializes in UX/UI design. She is based in New York, with frequent travel worldwide. She has been fortunate to work, live, study and travel to 30+ countries in four continents. Her debut novel, The Paths of Marriage, has been sold around the world and is recognized as a message of equality. Her articles and Op-Eds have been featured on major global publications, including The Guardian, The Advocate, CNN India and USA Today.

She specializes in UX, UI, and user/human-centered design for international development digital tools. She currently splits her time between the ICT4D and software development company, Sonjara, Inc., and UNICEF.

Vicki Tan
Senior Product Designer at Headspace

Vicki is a Senior Product Designer at Headspace, creating experiences to guide new users towards a healthy meditation practice. Previously, she was at Lyft, optimizing the passenger ride experience, and at Google, designing tools for reducing bias and predicting outcomes. Prior to Google, Vicki was at Stanford's School of Medicine coordinating research studies in Pediatric Oncology. She holds a degree in Behavioral Psychology from the University of California, San Diego.

Bianca Berning
Font engineer and type designer at Dalton Maag

Bianca is a font engineer and type designer and heads up the Skills and Process department for font foundry Dalton Maag. She is an active member of Alphabettes, ATypI and the Unicode Consortium; and she coordinates a mentorship program with the aim to help students and professional newcomers immerse themselves in the industry.

Noah Levin
Design Manager at Figma

Noah is the Design Manager at Figma, where he gets to meet with design teams of all shapes and sizes to build better tools for them. Before that he led the design team at ClassPass in NYC, and the iOS Search team at Google in Mountain View. He also spent some time teaching designers to code as an advisor at Framer, and building a digital assistant for Astronauts at NASA. He studied Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon and is a Pittsburgh native who’s convinced it’s the most underrated city in the world.

Morgane Santos
Augmented Reality at Mapbox

Morgane is an AR developer at Mapbox and an indie game designer. She loves making cool things with computers and has been logged on since the 90s.

Danger Dave
Artist at Cool Shit

Hungry Castle is the Internet in real life. They actively work to make Cool Shit playful, public, polarizing and pop. The goal of the fashion and art studio has always been to make big, playful things of cultural impact and use design thinking in a way that truly engages people. 

They're the creators of MR POOPIE - a giant inflatable poop emoji that makes icecream, LASER CAT - an epic cat that projects art through its laser beam eyes and LIONEL RICHIE'S HEAD - a giant inflatable sculpture of Lionel Richie's Head, just to name a few of their art pieces. Their work has been exhibited in New York, Miami Beach, London and Paris.

Hosts

Daniel Montano
Design Lead at More Digital Studios

Daniel Montano, originally from London - England, spent many years in the entertainment industry working as an actor, dancer, choreographer & singer before making the leap to art direction & design. After a few years working in traditional media his interests moved towards digital design and he is currently working as Design Lead at More Digital Studios in Stockholm while spending his evenings as co-host of the Designers in Stockholm podcast. Outside of design & all things digital his heart beats for his daughter & wife.

Unn Swanström
User Experience Designer at Doberman

Unn is co-organiser of Designers in Stockholm meet-up and a podcast host of the digital design podcast with the same name. Was IT Woman of the Year 2015. During the day Unn is a User Experience Designer at the design firm Doberman who firmly believes that life can be made better with technology. Loves exploring how to make the internet a more interesting and worthwhile place (Currently the main hypothesis is to design services for humans and to post lost of pictures of her kitten Arnold).

Meet like minded people in a creative environment and get inspired by industry leaders. You won’t be disappointed. If you’re going to a design conference in Sweden, this is it!

Jenny Granlund - Attendee 2017

500 designers

With over 500 designers and creatives descending to Stockholm for the event, and both structured and informal networking sessions provided, it’s a brilliant opportunity for you and your team to forge new professional contacts and make new friends.

Get inspired & learn

Nordic.design is a single track conference with 10 talks per day by internationally renowned speakers as well as rising stars.

Are you interested in speaking at Nordic.design? Or do you know someone that would give a really interesting talk? In both cases, don’t hesitate to send us a proposal or suggest a speaker.

Few conferences can boast both a cotton candy machine and rockband closing keynote. nordic.design had all this and more. Was truly a delight to be a part of it all.

Carly Ayres

Share stories & learn from like minded

Nordic.design is created by designers for designers. Our ambition is to inspire and to get inspired, to meet and learn from others and to bring our community closer together.

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Bontouch is an award-winning digital design and product agency that partners with brands to create unique and transformative digital customer experiences. With its 90+ designers and engineers, Bontouch serves clients in North America, Europe and Asia from three studios in New York, London, and Stockholm.

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An event like this couldn’t happen without the support of sponsors and collaborators. Are you interested in being part of Nordic.design? Send us an email at sponsorship@nordic.design. We'd love to talk!