Ramona Sartipi
Ramona is a self-taught designer at IBM Watsonx, who has a passion for creating experiences that are intuitive and impactful.
She believes that highly innovative and inclusive products begin with diverse and collaborative teams. As an advocate of Design Thinking, she actively creates spaces to bring people together to ship human-centered and creative solutions. With a background in Computer Science, Ramona is passionate in creating opportunities for the underrepresented in tech. She co-founded Ellehacks, a women-led, women-focused yearly hackathon that help over 1000+ beginners experiment with technology. Ellehacks is amongst the largest all-female hackathons in Canada.
Sessions
When it comes to open source contributions design is often a second thought. There is a plethora of innovative open source software that is made with little or no contribution from experienced designers, which often leads to inconsistent interfaces, confusing interactions, and ultimately, a poor user experience. When paired together, strong open source projects and human-centered, empathetic design thinking can create software that users can actually use. This session will explore the opportunities for design in open source projects and how developers can exercise a few design practices to influence the adoption and usability of their projects. It will examine what experience design is, why it matters, and the principles behind effective design. Attendees will learn through hands-on activities how to incorporate design thinking strategies into their projects without sacrificing design and how doing so will result in a better product for their users.