Speakers
Samantha Warren
Samantha Warren is the Design Director for Creative Cloud Services at Adobe: Superpowers for Creativity. Her team works horizontally across all of the Adobe Creative apps to design shared experiences for things like fonts, colors, assets, sharing, collaboration, and much more. Right now, she is excited about making virtual collaboration feel more creative for herself, her team, and all creatives who work together.
In the past, she has been a Design Director for agencies, a product design consultant for startups, and a designer at Twitter. A few years ago she championed http://styletil.es/, a method for establishing a visual language during the design process. She loves spending time with her husband and dog in the outdoors and enjoys all sorts of arts, crafts, and creative endeavors.
About the talk
From IC to Management: Why Design Leadership has Nothing to do with Design
A personal journey from being an “in the pixels Design lead” to a “conductor a symphony” Design manager. It's a tail of evaluating misconceptions about leadership (in particular, from my personal leadership journey) and how we can break the cycle of pushing people down the wrong path of design growth. We'll take a look at the definition of leadership and see how we can challenge it to guarantee a more diverse management layer with and industry we all care about.