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Available for
Keynote, Virtual Presentation, Panel, Fireside Chat, Webinar, Workshop and TrainingFee Ranges
Domestic In-Person (USA): $5,000 – $10,000*
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California, USAAbout
Jessica Brown is an experienced design leader, with years of building design teams from the ground up to craft award-winning user experiences. She’s currently a staff product designer at Faire. Fascinated by the co-evolution of culture and technology, she loves leading teams to find simple design solutions to complex problems. At Clutter, she is focused on growing a design team to tackle the real-world challenges of moving and storing items through well-designed technology.
Previously the Director of UX at VICE Media, she led the product design team, showcasing VICE’s distinct storytelling through crisp, bold digital experiences on web, mobile, and TV apps. While at VICE, she’s managed the design for major initiatives including a network-wide site redesign, brand new VICE mobile apps, VICELAND mobile and TV apps, and a custom CMS.
Jessica was also part of Rent the Runway, where she established UX and research practices to bring users’ stories into the product development process. Before that, she consulted with a variety of startups in the Bay Area—from e-commerce, to enterprise software, to social media—and went on to co-found and raise funding for a fashion/tech startup called Threadflip.
She studied math and computer science at Stanford, and couples her techie sensibilities with a humanist approach to design.
Topics
Executing a Redesign at Scale
Jessica will talk about how she and her team redesigned VICE’s web experiences from the ground up, and how they approached designing core experiences that would work well across 12 distinct brands, distributed in 30 countries. She will talk about how to discover what’s most essential to preserve amid sweeping changes, and how to craft underlying design systems to continue to scale and grow.
Redesigns 101
Jessica will talk about the three main reasons motivating a product redesign. Based on each motivation, she will outline implications and guiding questions to keep the project on track. She will share short case studies from redesign projects at Rent the Runway and VICE, with key takeaways.
“I’m not creative” & Other Myths
Design as a practice has never been more appreciated. However, many people still claim that they are not creative. Jessica will speak to the common philosophies and practices guiding creative people of all disciplines, and help to demystify design and share ways everyone on your team can serve in a creative capacity.
Jessica Brown can customize her topics and content to fit your needs.
Other topics also address Design Leadership, Women in Technology and Leadership, Product-Market Fit, Branding, E-commerce, and Startups.
Videos
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Explorer TalkX: Jessica Brown
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Amazon Web Services: How VICE Media Tames 12 Verticals in 18 Different Languages
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Executing Your Inevitable Redesign
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Product Design Podcast: Individual contributor or manager: Which path is best?
Articles
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Built in LA: How Clutter's Head of Design Scales Their Creative Process
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Forming Teams for VICE’s First Hack Week
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Tackling VICE.com's Ground-Up Redesign (Part 1)
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Tackling VICE.com's Ground-Up Redesign (Part 2)
