I am a trained public speaker. (I also tried to be a stand-up comedian, but let’s talk about that later.) I’ve delivered talks on design, UX writing, storytelling, mindfulness, and more.
Learn how to tell good UX writing from bad in under 3 seconds, how to design with content, and which principles of language can make you a better designer.
Ladies That UX, January 2022
This was a keynote presentation at the inaugural Button conference. How content designers can use practices from joke writing and stand-up to produce content that connects. Serious stuff.
Button Conference, October 2020
Storytelling is the oldest technology we have to convey complex ideas in influential ways. I presented this talk and workshop to a multidisciplinary group of students at Stanford.
Stanford d.school, April 2019
There is a lot of buzz around “storytelling.” This talk replaces platitudes with practical tools to help content designers do their jobs better.
UXU, Google, November 2018
Get in touch if you’d like to me speak at your conference or event.