Milissa Tarquini
Milissa Tarquini
Industry UX Leader (Truist, Capital One, Food Network, HGTV, AOL)
Milissa Tarquini is an experienced design leader with over 25 years of experience in leading highly engaged teams to deliver award-winning and user-loved experiences at scale. She has led teams at Truist, Capital One, Food Network, HGTV & The Travel Channel, and throughout her 15-year tenure at AOL.
Milissa currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey, where she pretends to be a gardener and lives with her son, Iso, and dog, Tilly Pico Smeagol III.
Look to the Future, but Not Too Closely: A Blueprint for Your Amazing Career in UX
How does a UX'er blueprint out a career while also developing the relevant skills in technologies that aren't invented yet? How do we predict the future? Is that new tech taking my job again? Can Figma hear my thoughts? Are we all freaking out yet? Don't worry - Milissa Tarquini will show you how to plan for the unplannable in your UX careers. She will also show you how to remain relevant and successful in an industry that won't be slowing down anytime soon. Using real examples from her own career journey (from 15 years at AOL, to leading digital design for FoodNetwork/HGTV, to heading up Consumer Bank and UX/UI Quality at Capital One, to becoming Head of Design and Innovation at Truist, to the future) she will show you exactly how you can thrive in UX for many more years than may be healthy. You will leave this session with Step One of your plan completed, and hopefully a little less worry about the new AI overlords/robots taking our jobs.