Chris Avore presented at the 2015 Prototypes, Process & Play conference and shares how he and his team worked hard to show their leadership team the value of design without disrupting the existing work balance that was in place (too much).

We hope you enjoy Chris’ presentation, “Advancing Strategic Design Without Going Against the Current” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Carl Smith presented at the 2015 Prototypes, Process & Play conference and shares how so many aspects of really great works have been influenced by so many other really great pieces of work. This was a crowd favorite and we’re certain you’ll see why!

We hope you enjoy Carl’s presentation, “Theft, Tributes & Collaboration” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Andrea Mignolo presented at the 2015 Prototypes, Process & Play conference and shares what happens when you, as a designer, finally get that seat at the table—and how the real work has just begun once you get there.

We hope you enjoy Andrea’s presentation, “So You’ve Bot a Seat at the Table. Now What?” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Braden Kowitz, Design Partner at Google Ventures, presented at the 2015 Prototypes, Process & Play conference and shares his thoughts on how slowing down can actually help you move faster and how designers can shift how they work to play a stronger role in product development.

We hope you enjoy Braden’s presentation, “Design What Really Matters” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

J Cornelius, President at Nine Labs in Atlanta, presented at the 2015 Prototypes, Process & Play conference and shares his thoughts on how to help us become better designers when we worry less about the visual outcomes.

We hope you enjoy J’s presentation, “Redesign Our Design Thinking” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Danny Schuman is another local Chicago treasure—he’s been doing work with many of the brands you’ve known and loved all of your life and like Dr. Steve Julius, he’s also spent a number of years working with Michael Jordan! Danny is not a designer, yet he’s managed to successfully work with great ones over the years and shares some of his best tips for working with them.

We hope you enjoy Danny’s presentation, “5 Tips for Designers from a Terrible Designer” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Jason Kunesh is a local Chicago treasure—he’s worked with all kinds of great companies and for a president of the United States of America and now works for a purpose-driven start-up where he’s got a team of great folks (with no design department) who are trying to change the world, a little nudge at a time.

We hope you enjoy Jason’s presentation, “How to be a Designer CEO without Being a Jerk” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Hannah has done a number of outstandingly cool projects, from Last.fm to This is My Jam and clearly has found her path through music. She’s also found out, the hard way, what it’s like to deal with burnout, and has some great lessons to share with you.

We hope you enjoy Hannah’s presentation, “Sometimes You Need to Draw Animals” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Jen Myers is a Chicago-area technologist and writer, and a local hero to us at Chicago Camps. She’s a leader and a role model and she’s brought us wonderful things like Code and Cupcakes where she teaches mothers and daughters how to code and serves cupcakes, too. She’s a champion for diversity in the tech community and she also really likes otters.

We hope you enjoy Jen’s presentation, “Cartoon Creativity: What I Learned from Chuck Jones” and don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!

Bridget Weis-Urban is a Chicago-area chef and owner of Cook from Scratch where she offers cooking classes that help people cook up great creations in their home kitchens using realistic, reusable ingredients. She follows the cooking principle that is far better to learn how to use a handful of fairly standard ingredients to create a variety of dishes than to learn how to cook one really fancy, complex dish from ingredients that you may not be able to easily find recipes for.

We hope you enjoy Bridget’s presentation, “Cooking by Design” where she talks about simplicity in cooking. The cooking process, like any design process, can start with fundamentals, and often some of the best results stem from focusing on the basics first!

Don’t forget to get your tickets for Prototypes, Process & Play on August 11th and 12th!