How designers collaborate with content strategists at Facebook

Content strategy is essential to a great user experience as well as modern web development. We'll be sitting down with a panel of 5 UX Designers and Content Strategist from Facebook, to discuss the challenges and approach of how they collaborate to design great experiences together.

We will be opening the discussion to you as well, so feel free to bring your questions!

Featuring:

Eric Bollman is a product designer & entrepreneur with over 15 years experience designing and managing web and mobile experiences. He currently works at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Eric co-founded and grew a 20 person start-up focusing on customer loyalty for local businesses. 

Christine Sadrnoori, currently a Product Designer at Facebook, became a designer to build products that better the lives of people. Her user-centric view was cultivated at The Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a BFA in graphic design. Her work has been featured in Mashable, LA Times, CNET, amongst others.

Garron Engstrom's background in Cognitive Science gives him the unique ability to pair elegant design, product strategy and emotion and psychology to build products that solve business needs and real human problems. He currently works as Product Designer at Facebook.

Drew Bridewell is a lifelong learner who actively writes, speaks, and practices product design on a daily basis. Currently he works as a product designer at Facebook where his mission is to design solutions that support and empower facebook to build community and bring the world closer together.

Denise Christie is a content strategist at Facebook with 10 years of experience in content and communications. She will get the point of view of how content strategists collaborate with UX designers.

Lisa Turner is a content strategist at Facebook with more that 20 years of experience with content in companies like Walmart, Trulia and Wells Fargo. 

Hannah Macaulay is a content strategist passionate about connecting people with community, and is doing so at scale with her work at Facebook. Her background of cognitive science, innovation design, HCI, creative writing, marketing, and design ethics help her successfully solve UX problems with incredible user empathy.

This is the Agenda for the day:

6-6:30 - Snacks and Networking

6:30 - 7:30 - Panel and Q&A

7:30 to 9ish - More snacks and more networking!

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