Basak Haznedaroglu
Head of Design
Blockstream
Basak is a multi-disciplinary thinker, educator, coach, and speaker. She has spent years as a design executive, leading design teams and developing strategies at visionary companies like Microsoft, SoundCloud, InVision, Foursquare, and many more. She currently leads Design and Research at Blockstream, a blockchain company focusing on the financial infrastructure of the future.
Outside of work, she loves building communities and connecting people across different cultures. She co-founded OpenIDEO Berlin to create social impact through design and craft solutions to our world's biggest challenges in sustainability, healthcare, education, and diversity. She is also an ambassador of Geekettes and Hexagon, both aimed to empower and support women and non-binary people in technology.
Buckle Up, Designer!: How to Design for New Frontiers
New technologies such as Blockchain and Bitcoin are gaining more popularity and becoming much more central to human life, with the potential to revolutionize how we express ourselves, exchange value, and transfer data. In the midst of that sea change, we need to acknowledge the significance of incorporating human-centric values, strong design culture, and creative process into these highly complex new technologies.
In this talk, Basak will dig deeper into how to make an impact in times of technological revolution, how to think beyond just product design, and reshape our roles at the intersection of trust, security, and transparency in Bitcoin technologies.
