The Influential Product Designer • Talk

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The Influential Product Designer

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https://www.figma.com/deck/GIErayNhSgBrly28GpQy9E/The-influential-product-designer?node-id=1-2847&viewport=146,45,0.5&t=r3YwpCdkvXsmH0Z0-1&scaling=min-zoom&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=0:1

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You're a great designer – now it's time to become influential. Get a crash course in the skills needed to have strategic influence and build strong partnerships within your cross-functional teams. In this talk, Femke shares how to make sense of ambiguous product challenges, make design decisions based on rationale, and ultimately have influence and impact.

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In this talk we'll cover:

What it means to be a product thinking designer
An alternative to the never ending MVP
How to prioritize project initiatives
How do have conviction in your work
Tools for managing stakeholders
Speaking to your audience </aside>

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Femke Portrait

Femke Landscape

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<aside> <img src="/icons/user_blue.svg" alt="/icons/user_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Speaker Bio Femke is a design lead at Gusto who started her career at tech giant Uber and Canadian fintech Wealthsimple. You can often find Femke creating videos on YouTube or recording her podcast Design Life. Femke currently lives on Vancouver Island, Canada.

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