International Design Talks

All Hail the Committee!

Prarthana Johnson, Gerrit Kaiser
Berlin 2016
Friday, 13 May 2016 | 16:00 | Hall
English

All Hail the Committee!

Prarthana Johnson, Gerrit Kaiser
Berlin 2016 | Friday, 13 May 2016 | 16:00 | Hall | English
The good, the bad and the ugly about being an in-house design team for a service that’s used by hundreds of millions. If the products you're designing are never finished, everything changes. How do you stay true to yourself, your brand and your users through high stakes decisions, rapid change and constant feedback?
Prarthana Johnson

Prarthana Johnson

Head of Design, SoundCloud(Berlin)
Prarthana Johnson, Head of Design at SoundCloud, is constantly evolving the infinite variety of paths it takes to solve a design problem. She has 14 years experience designing for environments, devices, mobility, applications and services, joins from Microsoft where she was principal design... Read More
Gerrit Kaiser

Gerrit Kaiser

Senior Design Lead, Soundcloud(Berlin)
Gerrit Kaiser is a Designer and Technologist based in Berlin working for SoundCloud as a Senior Design Lead for listener experiences. He holds an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London, where he ran a boutique digital brand experience studio working for clients like... Read More

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