UxNow

7th - 8th February '25

UXNOW UXNOW Design Design Conference Conference

Schedule A Two Day Event

09:00 Registration Opens / Caffeine, Chai & Chatter

09:45 Aakash Kumar Aakash Kumar Head of Design at MakeMyTrip & Goibibo UXnow Welcome Note

10:00 Parameswaran Parameswaran Venkataraman Co-Founder: 3 Big Things | ex-IDEO | Behavioural Designer Foresight, Far-sight and In-sight

10:30 Deepa Deepa Bachu Director of UX at Google & Co-Founder at Pensaar Design Future of UX in an AI driven world

Mrinal Kanti Rai Product Design Leadership @ Google | Ex- LinkedIn

11:00 Saloni SaloniBorar VP, UX and Product Design leader at Salesforce Growth, Success, Failure: Lets Decode Leadership

11:30 Caffeine, Chai & Chatter Break

12:00 Ankit Khanna Chief Product Officer, MakeMyTrip Fireside Chat -
Reimagining Travel: How Product and Design Collaborate to Create Seamless Customer Journeys

Aakash Kumar Head of Design at MakeMyTrip & Goibibo

12:45 Yaman Mohd Yaman Product & Solution Expert, Adobe Building Trust & Transparency in the Age of Generative AI

13:00 Lunchtime , Chatter & Networking Break

14:00 Anthony Anthony Lopez Founder & Chief Creative Director, Lopez Design Can Design Make a Difference?

14:45 Panel Discussion Meghna Seshadri, Rahul Saini, Anuj Kapur, Rajat Kashyap, Sumit Jaiswal Designing for the Next Billion: Teams, Tools & Trends

15:30 Panel Discussion Kshitiz Anand, Veena Somwalkar, Anirban Bhattacharya, Rohit Kulthia, Akshata Malhotra, Sagar Gupta Designing for a Better Future: The role of Designers in India's journey to a developed nation

16:15 Caffeine, Chai & Chatter Break

16:45 Swathi Swathi Singh Designer @Revisual Labs Information Design Practices for UX Designer

17:00 Sandeep Sandeep Karmakar Senior Manager of Product Design, Uber Design Leadership

17:30 Hardik Hardik Pandya Ex-SVP of Design & Product, Unacademy Unconventional Learnings & Anecdotes in Design Leadership

18:00 Event Closure

18:15 Networking Reception for All Access/Guest Pass Holders

Design Challenge

Submit by Mon, 3 Feb 2025, 2 PM

Designing for Designers - A Toolkit for Creative Flow

Designers often juggle multiple tools, feedback loops, and creative processes that can either spark inspiration or cause frustration. Your challenge is to design a toolkit, platform, or experience specifically for designers, aimed at improving their creative flow, collaboration, and productivity.

This challenge encourages participants to think deeply about the needs, behaviors, and workflows of designers, while also creating a fun and engaging solution that resonates with their peers.

How to submit the idea One person can submit only 1 solution.The final solution must be submitted uxnow@makemytrip.com before 3rd February 2025, 2:00 PM.