Celebrate our 10th anniversary at
#DesignMatters24
! 🎂Become our sponsor & explore all the opportunities to connect with the design community - be it by designing crafty activities, throwing a party, giving a talk or a workshop & more. Email hello
@designmatters
.io to collaborate!
Head of Design Strategy at
#Bitso
,
@gabrielasalinas
, shared examples of strategic design projects within the fintech sector where her output has been “invisible” yet more impactful than traditional visual design.
We are thrilled to introduce the exceptional speakers of Design Talks & Networking | Lagos🔥
Join this free online meetup where you also get to network with like-minded designers from Africa and the rest of the world.
Get to know them and save your spot:
Nicole Burrrow from
@spotify
spoke about how today, in this new environment, it’s more important than ever to figure out which role we want to play. Her talked focused on how designers can learn to reach their full potential 📈
Learning to code in a glamorous way? It's possible w/
@theannalytical
. Eyeshadow is arrays, makeup brushes can hold our variables and dancing is loops! Anna will break down the core concepts and open your mind to a different way to look at problem solving, imagination.
.
@dropboxdesign
has launched Feminist Propaganda, a new publication by Ladies Who Create, to discuss work & feminism with their favorite collaborators. Get a free copy at Design Matters 20! 🤩
@Dropbox
will also jump on stage to talk about cross disciplinary collaboration 🤓
.
@RamsesCabello
, Product Designer at
@Sketch
, will at
@designmattersjp
22, explore collaboration on a cross-functional level. He will shed light on what it means to share – be it your work, your knowledge, or your opinions.
Get your ticket at
Meet more speakers of
#DesignMattersLagos
23! 😎 📌 Ufot Ubon
📌 Chukwu Adaeze Victoria
📌 Onyekachi Mbaike
📌 Linda Ojo
📆 Nov 15-16, 2023, in Lagos & Online
🎟
Apply for a discount here:
@VictoryBrown_
Do you want to learn how to teach design and creativity online? Join this conference & learn how to deliver the most engaging online teaching!
@theChrisDo
,
@thebrainlady
, Evan Burse from
@CartoonBlock
and
@lisa_solomon
will share their knowledge and advice
Design Matters lands in Lagos! 🇳🇬
After Copenhagen, Tokyo & Mexico City,
#DesignMatters
is hosting a conference in
#Lagos
& online on Nov 15-16 2023.
The themes:
📍Design trends in e-gov, e-health, fintech
📍Scandinavian Design Philosophy
🎟 Tickets at
This is Alfredo Ruiz (
@alfredoruizc
)! At IBM Design (
@ibmdesign
), Alfredo is bringing data to life in the Award-winning AR tool IBM Immersive Insights.
Join his talk and learn to master the art of designing 3D interfaces at
#designmatters18
Whenever you press ⌘B in
@figmadesign
to make your text bold, what happens is a choreography of events of surprising complexity. With
@mwichary
, Design Manager at Figma, you'll learn about the collision of two worlds: keyboard shortcuts and typography.
Censorship or Freedom of Speech? How does
@Twitter
approach misinformation? At
#DesignMatters20
Anita, Design Director at Twitter, will expose the ways politicians and extremists create fake content and debate when & how Twitter intervenes
@TwitterDesign
DESIGN TALKS & NETWORKING - LAGOS 🇳🇬 Join this free online session of talks & networking featuring inspiring West African designers that will bring the excitement of real-life interaction to our favorite virtual platform
@Butter_hq
Save your spot:
Bianca Berning, creative director at typeface design studio
@DaltonMaag
, will have a typography workshop at
#designmatters19
.
She will explore the depth of emotional responses we have to different type styles, and how variable fonts can personalize the consumers’ experience.
Mitsuko Sato is the Visual Design Lead at
@space10_journal
and she talked about how SPACE10 stands out in researching and designing products and ideas to enable a better everyday life for people and the planet. 🙌🏼🤍
#designmatters20
Customizable NFTs are becoming easier to make through art generators like
@Robotos
and Bueno🤓.
Educate yourself first before you get started! We had an interview with the creator
@pablostanley
, you can read it on 💬🤖 💬🤖
#future
#art
#interview
Design Matters Tokyo is back! 🇯🇵
📅 Design Matters Tokyo 23 will take place on June 2-3, 2023.
🎟️ In-person & Online tickets are available for purchase. Save up and get a Super Early Bird ticket now! The offer is valid only until the end of December 👉
As the end of 2020 approaches, it’s important to remind ourselves that we can design the change we want to see in the world ❤️
From
@alanstairs
‘ talk at
#designmatters20
. Alastair is VP of Design at
@dropbox
Let's welcome José Torre
@halfool_draws
who works at
@Shopify
as a Staff Designer in the Polaris team. José writes, draws, makes videos and gives talks because he believes sharing knowledge is the key for personal growth. You'll find him at
#DesignMatters22
giving a talk.
Can we share human knowledge in a more inclusive way? Rita Ho is Lead Designer at
@WikimediaDesign
the organization that hosts
@Wikipedia
. At
#DesignMatters20
she'll talk about how they're helping non English speaking communities create more content in their own languages.
Kevin King
@calligraphio
is a typeface designer, typographer, calligrapher, and type researcher based in Canada. His work focuses on font support and research for minority languages. At Design Matters 22 he will talk about his work with
@typotheque
and more!...
#designmatters22
Welcome
@reg_inee
! 👋 A designer, author & industry assistant professor at
@nyutandon
. Her praxis aims to make the world a more accessible place. Which starts and finishes with the user in mind. We’re excited to welcome her as one of the speakers for 22✨
Design Matters will be hosting events in 3 different continents in the next 6 months. Pick a location and join us! We promise, it'll be fun and you'll learn a lot ❤️ Each event will revolve around different topic and themes, so go have a look and find what speaks to you the most!
Mexico City, here we come! We are thrilled to announce Associate Design Director at
@frogdesign
,
@angelorenzo
as a speaker for Design Matters Mexico 23! Learn more about him and his talk for the conference:
Here are a few shots taken during Design Matters Lagos 23, which took place last week in Lagos, Nigeria!
Big thanks to all the speakers who participated, our team member based in Lagos
@VictoryBrown_
and our great host
@reg_inee
💜
The party has arrived!✨ Straight out of the Copenhagen underground we proudly present rising star
@irisgoldmusic
! This soulful singer and energetic hip-hopper will for sure turn up the volume at
#designmatters18
!
Jordan Craig
@JordanEllyse
is a writer, activist & experienced marketing consultant. She leads the Product Content Design team at
@TwitterDesign
. She'll give a talk at
#DesignMatters22
, which will take place online and in Cph in Sep 2022.
Get a ticket 👉
WE HAVE EXCITING NEWS! 🚀🤩
Design Matters is hosting a pop-up event in Tokyo on January 29-30! 🇯🇵
We will bring on stage some of the best speakers from Design Matters and some of the most talented Japanese designers 💪🤓
read more
@cinrainc
@uxmilkman
A warm welcome to our next speaker,
@thomasschrijer
, Thomas Schrijer from
@WeTransfer
! He will talk about this tool, which allows people to send big files around the world and to bring ideas to life, stimulating all the parts of the creative process.
We met
@bruno_maag
, typeface designer and founder of type design company
@DaltonMaag
, to discuss typography and accessibility.
Check out the full interview here 👉
Dalton Maag will be at Design Matters 19 conducting a workshop on Typography.
Wuhu
#designmatters18
happens tomorrow! ☀️ The sun is out in Copenhagen, and we're busy making everything ready for you all to fill the venue tomorrow!
Meet our latest speaker
@kpeatt
! He'll fly in from Canada to share insights about product experience and design at
@Shopify
.
#designmatters18
See all the speakers (so far):
Need inspiration after the holidays?🤔
Watch this exclusive interview with the amazing and inspiring
@hornerlas
(Former product designer at Netflix)!
#designmatters17
Say hi to Christine &
@vickiheart
!
These two cool designers from
@Headspace
will ease your mind by introducing you to designing for online meditation, while making your head spin on the theme Design for Change!
#designmatters18
Design Matters isn’t just talks! On Day 1 of Design Matters Mexico 23,
@marianpedroza
hosted a workshop on How to create Generative Art for NFTs. After explaining what generative art is and why generative art is relevant in NFTs, the audience created a small avatar collection.
Ulrike Rausch, type designer & founder of
@LiebeFonts
, will host a super hands-on workshop (in-person) about color fonts at
#DesignMatters21
💥You'll discover the world of color font technology and learn to design your own color font 💯
Get your ticket 👉
Trying to collaborate across different teams while creating a cohesive culture can sometimes feel like a pipe dream. Join
@alanstairs
, VP of Design at
@Dropbox
, to explore popular myths about cross disciplinary collaboration & get practical tips to build world-class products.
Navigating a digital world where reality blends with fake can be really complex and confusing. How do we design in a way that can help us tell what's true apart from what's fake?
@dantley
Head of Product Design at
@TwitterDesign
will explore this topic at Design Matters 20
Dafne Martinez & Sandra García are the managers and typeface designers behind
@TipasType
, a Mexican studio specializing in custom and retail typeface and typographic design.
Designing a product is a journey, not a destination. And along that journey, you will inevitably make mistakes. Anita Patwardhan Butler
@tapatinah
, Twitter's Sr Design Director, told us some of
@TwitterDesign
's fuckups and what the team learned from them👇
We met Oliver
@reichenstein
, founder of
@iA
and
@iAWriter
, for a discussion on the ethical problems digital users and companies are facing today 🧐
He will also be speaking at Design Matters 19! Read the interview here:
Architectural Engineer Eduardo Obieta & Artist Alejandro Magallanes (
@Magallanes71
) from
@centro_news
, hosted a workshop exploring drawing as an immersive sculpting experience with a hybrid design approach to physical and digital objects.
Mayu Nakamura
@mayunak
, Product Design Lead at
@ustwo
London, will jump on stage at
@designmattersjp
to reflect on her experiences in design & development in Japan and abroad, and discuss how to create an environment where we can embrace failures for creativity 🔥
Watch the talk with former Alexa Designer Cheryl Platz (
@muppetaphrodite
) on how designers more naturally should take part in the development of backend systems and the skills needed for designing Voice UI's!
#designmatters17
#designmatters18
A big thanks to Dalton Maag for helping us make Design Matters 19 come alive!
@DaltonMaag
is an independent type design studio. It works with both global and local brands and handles a number of type-related services such as logo refinements, font modification, and custom fonts.
THANK YOU! ❤️
Design Matters 19 has been a fantastic, exciting experience! We can't thank you enough!
A huge thanks to all the volunteers too Design Matters 19 couldn't have been so cool without them! 💙
See you next year!
#designmatters19
Catt Small from
@asana
shared with our audience ways how to improve personal persuasion skills, create a better working relationship with peers, conduct more holistic research, and ultimately create and release a better product. 🙌🏼💻✨
#designmatters20
Whose better to guide you through the program than designers themselves? This time we've asked former speaker and last year's host
@davidkiosk
, on the talk he's excited about for
#designmatters18
!
Deconstruct and re-learn with Ngọc Triệu (
@kirakirawes
), Design Researcher from
@simplysecureorg
. We embarked on a journey through Ngọc’s childhood and from there, the asymmetrical power relations in design.
Join Design Matters Tokyo to discover the latest movements in digital design! Get a taste of the Danish design culture and hygge while learning about new design trends. There will be speakers from
@figmadesign
@Designit
@SlackHQ
and many more! On Jan 29-30, at Shibuya Cast, Tokyo
Design Matters is landing in Mexico in Jan 2023, and to make it more exciting, we're giving you an online teaser! One of the speakers will be Claudia Sosa, Senior Product Manager at
@somossofia
Join us for free here:
#DesigMatters
#DesignMattersMexico
🔊 Say hi to
@pketh
, Creator of
@KinopioClub
. At
#DesignMatters23
, he'll give the talk “The First Four Years of Kinopio”, where he talks about the origins of the visual thinking tool.
🎟 Tickets:
🖤 DESIGN MATTERS IS BACK 🖤With a bold new visual identity 👀
📍Copenhagen, Sep 27-28, 2023
Get your SUPER EARLY BIRD TICKET now! Give yourself a present or put your company's End-of-Year budget to good use! This offer is valid until December 31, 2022.
TA-DA! The Design Matters 18 themes are here:
▪️ DESIGN FOR CHANGE
▪️ IMMERSIVE WORLDS & MIXED REALITIES
▪️ BE A DESIGN REBEL!
Check them out:
#designmatters18