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Throughout her career as an industrial designer and UX leader, Kate Freebairnhas seen a theme emerge of working at the intersection of hardware and software, and examining end to end experiences to create value in people’s lives.
Identifying these intersections in products and experiences give teams and designers an opportunity to be innovative and intentional in creating new, delightful moments for users. In a world that’s becoming increasingly complex and distributed, it is more important than ever to design with the end to end product experience in mind.
About the Speaker:
Kate Freebairn is a design leader who comes from an industrial design education and practice. Kate has spent her career working on her passion of bringing hardware and software together as a seamless end to end experience. Kate loves working at the intersection of products and experiences, creating joyful and useful experiences that improve peoples lives. Kate applies her experience and love of designing for people to leading and running design organizations, empowering multi disciplined teams to collaborate and deliver solutions for businesses and people. During her career Kate has designed for many brands including ResMed, Cochlear, Nokia, Amazon, Twitter and currently leads the Google Home/Nest design team. Kate has experienced broad international experiences living in Australia, Italy, Finland and is currently based in San Francisco.