My UX stories from working in design studios, consultancies, corporates, and startups across USA, UK, and India

Speaker: Aditi Kulkarni

Fun UX Stories from my experiences working in design studios, consulting agencies, massive corporates, and startups. From the last 10 yrs across USA, UK, India, and Singapore.

Aditi Kulkarni is the Head of Design & UX at Singapore based start-up ReferralCandy - the best-automated referral program for online retailers. ReferralCandy has raised S$1 M in funding and recently tripled its revenue.

In her previous role as VP Design at Postman, she leads product design and helped grow the user base to more than 3M developers, eventually leading to Series A funding of $7M.

Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/Design-Bootcamp-Asia/events/242850962/

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Speaker: Kenny Hong

Kenny Hong is the founder of 11H, a design studio that focuses on product/furniture design and marketing.

A graduate from Temasek Polytechnic, in Product Design, Kenny further attained his 2 Masters (with distinctions) abroad - Master in Design at Domus in Milan, Italy and Master of Arts in Design at the University of Wales.

Prior to setting up 11H, he was tasked to setup the Product Development department in Design Studio Furniture Manufacturer Ltd, to develop and market products for the retail business in China, focusing on home furnishing.

Being one of the boards of examiner for the Diploma in Product Design at LaSalle College of the Arts, Kenny is also a part time lecturer at NTU, NAFA and UNISim. He was a member of the Design Advisory Panel at Singapore Furniture Industries Council (2008 – 2011) and board of examiner for the Advance Diploma course in Interior Architecture and Landscape at BCA (2010-2014)

He has 22 years of working experiences in design and product marketing. With the last 12 years, as a senior designer (05 - 06) and design manager (08 - 14), he had the opportunity to mentor a team of designers. In Technigroup, he regularly provides product training to the sales and project team around the region. And in 2008, he was invited to speak on the topic of "Workplace Ergonomics" by Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/Design-Bootcamp-Asia/events/242850962/

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Speaker: Leon Lim

Getting started with Adobe Photoshop
We have all heard about Adobe world famous software Photoshop. Photoshop was created in 1988 and has come a long way since. It has to date 27 versions of the software. The latest being CC 2017.1.1

In this session, see some of the amazing features of photoshop and what it can do. We will also cover some of the basic of photoshop so that beginners can try their hand at learning the software.

https://creative.adobe.com/products/download/photoshop

About the speaker
Leon has been using photoshop since 1994 and has used it since the 3rd version of the software. By day, he works in a printing company and uses Adobe software almost on a daily basis. By night, he enjoys building electronics and writing computer code.

Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1766219373671495

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Speaker: Melvin Zhang

Paper: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2012/ecoop2012.pdf

Original Meetup : http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love
Papers Repo : https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
Code of Conduct : https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1535000126550507

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Speaker: Soares Chen

Paper: https://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/ho-contracts-techreport.pdf

Original Meetup : http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love
Papers Repo : https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
Code of Conduct : https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1535000126550507

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Speaker: Aditi Kulkarni, Head of Design, Referral Candy - IxDA Singapore

About Aditi

Aditi Kulkarni, Head of Design & UX at Singapore based startup, ReferralCandy. the best automated referral program for online retailers. (ReferralCandy has raised S$2M in funding and recently tripled its revenue.) In her previous role as VP Design at Postman she lead product design and helped grow the user base to more than 4M developers, eventually leading to Series A funding of $7M.

Aditi is a big fan of effective, collaborative and goal oriented design. She loves trying various experiments to see what works best in a lean product team. In her free time you can find her tinkering and making interactive installations inspired by city life.

Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/IxDA-Singapore/events/242704205/

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