Leadership Collective
Leadership Collective
Andrew Hogan
1:30 - 2:30P
Leadership Collective
1:30 - 2:30P
From incumbent to innovator with Commbank
1:45 - 2:00P
A modern definition of design craft
2:00 - 2:30P
Evolution of Material Design
1:30 - 2:30P
Leadership Collective
Andrew Hogan
he/him
Head of Insights at Figma
Andrew leads Insights at Figma. His research focuses on the digital product and design industry and the ways the most successful teams work. Previously, Andrew spent 7 years at Forrester, a leading research firm, analyzing the intersection of design and tech.
1:30 - 2:30P
From incumbent to innovator with Commbank
Commbank was founded in 1911 by the Australian government, becoming fully privatised in 1996, and now recognised as one of the world’s largest and most valuable banks. Helen Hey walks us through how an incumbent invested in innovation to redesign and transform the financial industry. Equal parts success stories and hard lessons, this provides a realistic look at what it takes to make progress.
Helen Hey
She/her
Digital Domain Lead at Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Helen Hey is the Digital Domain Lead at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the largest bank in Australia. Helen leads the team behind the Commbank App and Website, where one third of the Australian population log on daily. Prior to Commbank, Helen was an internationally awarded Marketer working on brands such as Discovery Channel, IBM, Westfield and Audi, before making the pivot to Founder, launching and scaling two corporate ventures for ASX30 companies.
1:45 - 2:00P
A modern definition of design craft
What makes for great design? Most would say that a great design is useful, usable, and well crafted. As designers, we relentlessly strive to create well crafted products. But what makes for great craft? Why, really, does great craft matter to the people who use what we build? And ultimately, how can you and your teams deliver exceptionally crafted products?
Ethan Eismann
he/him
Senior Vice President Design at Slack
Ethan Eismann is the Senior Vice President of Design at Slack, where he leads a fantastic team that makes people's working lives more pleasant, simple, and productive. Prior to Slack, Ethan led Airbnb's design team focused on home-sharing, which was responsible for the majority of Airbnb's revenue and the core Airbnb experience. Before that Ethan led the Design team at Uber and the Commerce Design team at Google. Ethan started his design career as a designer at Adobe.
2:00 - 2:30P
Evolution of Material Design
More than a decade ago, Material Design set out to give makers a flexible system, backed by open-source code, to make it easier and faster to build beautiful and usable experiences. So, where is Material Design headed next? Learn about a prediction that paid off and how it’s driving the future of interface design with Google's Itai Vonshack and Christian Robertson.
Christian Robertson
He/Him
UX Lead for Material Design at Google
Christian Robertson is a UX and type designer working at Google. He currently leads UX for the Material Design System. Previously he worked as Creative Director for Android. He also designed the Roboto type family.
session hosts
Andrew Hogan
he/him
Head of Insights at Figma
Andrew leads Insights at Figma. His research focuses on the digital product and design industry and the ways the most successful teams work. Previously, Andrew spent 7 years at Forrester, a leading research firm, analyzing the intersection of design and tech.