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Tent Talks by Chicago Camps
by Chicago Camps
Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway–If it’s a cool idea, we’d love to hear about it and share it!What is a Tent Talk? That’s a great question, we’d love to tell you. Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format–we like to think of them as “S’mores-sized content” because that’s pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything–we don’t want to limit ourselves, or you.
Episodes
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The Feed & The Thread - January 23, 2026
Show Notes for The Feed & The Thread In This Episode The impact of minor design tweaks on website conversion rates through call-to-action changes. The rise of agentic AI in user-centric design and its implications on responsible practices. An overview of recent articles from TPGi, Codrops, and...
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The Feed & The Thread - January 22, 2026
Show Notes In This Episode A critical perspective on using AI to solve real customer problems over trendy additions, as discussed by Josh LaMar. How AI is transforming alumni engagement in higher education with a focus on personalized communication and maintaining human touch. Dylan Brouwer's...
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The Feed & The Thread - January 21, 2026
Show Notes In This Episode Introduction to Hyperlegible Sans, a new font designed for better legibility among low-vision users. Discussion on ARIA roles causing accessibility issues and the importance of semantic HTML and user testing with assistive technologies. Exploration of how AI-generated...
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The Feed & The Thread - January 20, 2026
Show Notes In This Episode The importance of resilience over perfection in design, especially with complex systems like AI and autonomous vehicles. The shift from "pixel perfect" web design to a more fluid approach that aligns with modern technological advances and multi-device environments. Why...
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The Feed & The Thread - January 19, 2026
Show Notes In This Episode Adoption of W3C design token standards for enhancing visual consistency across platforms The role of disinformation techniques in modern media and their implications on truth reporting Emotional design as a critical element in creating meaningful user interactions...
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The Feed & The Thread - January 18, 2026
In This Episode The emerging concept of Authentic Experience (AuX) and designing intelligence over interfaces Emotional design and why feelings are becoming key features in UX Why Instagram's ad breaks feel worse than regular ads Community discussions on mobile-first design, form field...
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The Feed & The Thread - January 17, 2026
In This Episode The importance of chatbots admitting uncertainty in their responses Ethical considerations when designing AI with human-like qualities Analysis on how UX design is evolving and stabilizing by 2026 Articles Mentioned "The Case for the Uncertain AI: Why Chatbots Should Say ‘I’m Not...
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The Feed & The Thread - January 16, 2026
In This Episode When Tools Pretend To Be People Discusses Ethical Risks Of Humanizing AI Systems HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac Offers Insights Into Current State Of Web Design, Accessibility And Performance One Way Out: Standing At The Edge Of The Map Explores The Future Of Content Design In…
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The Feed & The Thread - January 15, 2026
In This Episode Building technology products can seem complicated despite advancements in methodologies like Agile UX design significantly influences a company’s profitability through interactive experiences AI is changing software development by enabling as-needed feature generation Articles...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Tyler Quackenbush
From UX to PM—How the Transition Happened: Transitioned into project management organically when the former PM left—Tyler was already exploring Agile and had strong team relationships. Leaned into a design mindset to lead—asking questions, listening, finding patterns, and breaking down…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Heidi Trost
Session Overview In this Tent Talks session, Heidi Trost dives deep into the evolving relationship between AI, privacy, and the future of UX. She introduces a helpful mental model involving three key players in the cybersecurity ecosystem: Alice (the user), the threat actor (the adversary), and...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Sabina Leybold
In this Tent Talks session, Sabina Leybold dives deep into the world of content modeling, illuminating its critical role in UX design and content strategy. Sabina, a hybrid UX designer and content strategist, unpacks the complexity behind structuring content within digital systems and why this...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Brett Harned
Where Should Leaders Focus to Improve Team Dynamics? • More with less: Teams are under pressure with fewer resources, leading many leaders to default to process changes. • Removing friction: Instead of adding more processes, reducing inefficiencies that slow teams down is key. • Clarity and...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Kara Fitzpatrick
In this Tent Talks session, Kara Fitzpatrick, former Director of Experience Design in the Obama White House, breaks down the essentials of mentorship—structured versus unstructured, common pitfalls, and the tools that make mentorship impactful. She shares personal experiences from government,...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Harry Max
Importance of Prioritization: Prioritization is straightforward in simple, static environments but complex in dynamic, large-scale settings. Under stress, people revert to familiar but outdated methods. A consistent methodology, using tools and frameworks, is essential for effective…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Meghan Casey
Session Overview In this Tent Talks session, Meghan Casey delves into her journey from her early career to establishing Do Better Content Consulting, emphasizing the importance of content strategy and modeling. She shares insights on how content modeling enhances content consistency and…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Helen Keighron
Common pitfalls leaders face when creating alignment: Definition of alignment: Varies among individuals based on their experiences. Strategic understanding: Importance of knowing why a task is strategically important. Role clarity: Everyone should understand their contribution to the desired...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Sheetal T. Patel
Background on the CIA and Patel's Role The CIA's core missions include foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, all-source analysis, and covert action. The agency is organized into directorates and mission centers, integrating different functions for regional or functional focus. Patel's...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Caroline Jarrett
Common Misconception About Form Design: Forms are often undervalued despite their crucial role in user interactions. Many UX professionals and budget holders fail to see the value in investing in form improvements. Poorly designed forms can lead to high error rates, inefficiency, and user...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Kai Tran
How is AI reshaping the future of UX design, particularly for newcomers? AI advancements are rapid, with new updates and integrations across various tools and environments. New designers may feel overwhelmed by the abundance of tools and the rapid pace of technological change. Despite economic...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Bryce Johnson
Overview of the Inclusive Tech Lab: The lab is located on Microsoft's campus and serves as a space to engage with the disability community. The lab has hosted over 16,000 visitors and focuses on including people with disabilities in the design process. The facility includes a sensory room…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Cassidy Williams
Navigating Varied Tech Environments: Cassidy emphasizes the importance of self-audits to determine personal and professional likes and dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. She mentions that these audits help her decide when it's time for a change, ensuring she's always aligned with her interests...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Tanya Snook
Design Leadership and Mental Health: Tanya underscores the importance of designing the team member experience, advocating for personalized approaches to feedback and recognition. She suggests practical strategies such as setting clear boundaries, creating a code of conduct, and establishing fixed...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Alec Levin
Shift in Researcher Activities: Researchers are becoming more involved at the executive level, driven by organizational changes and the impact of new technologies like AI. Effective communication and business understanding are crucial for researchers to influence executive decisions and…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Colin MacArthur
Integrating AI into Design Workflow: LLMs have significantly shifted Colin's approach to design, especially in the ideation phase, by accelerating the move from idea generation to discernment and filtering. AI's capacity for generating diverse ideas helps bypass the initial, often time-consuming,...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Nathan Curtis
Critical Processes in Design Systems: Emphasis on building from a library of UI components and visual language. Importance of collaboration between designers and developers. The notion of a design system as a product serving products, requiring evolution, roadmap, support, and marketing.…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Christine Perfetti
Session Overview Christine Perfetti dives into the concept of "Strategic Rallying" as a team-based, collaborative approach aimed at setting and executing a strategy and product vision with a focus on understanding and involving both external users/customers and internal team members of an...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Danielle Barnes
Finding Your Voice: Danielle is still on a journey to discover what she wants to share with the world, using her experiences with Women Talk Design and the process of writing "Present Yourself." She aims to empower others to amplify their impact, believing in supporting others to do their best…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Christine McGlade
Session Overview In this episode of Tent Talks, Christine McGlade, a sessional lecturer on digital futures at OCAD University, shares her insights on designing tomorrow with a focus on ethics and AI. Christine discusses the importance of futures thinking as a design discipline akin to systems...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Alison Gretz
In this insightful Tent Talks episode, Alison Gretz, a seasoned leader in the design industry, shares her unique leadership philosophy and how it has positively impacted her team dynamics and conflict resolution. Alison emphasizes the importance of viewing leadership roles as partnerships and...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Sunni Brown & Liya James
In this episode of Tent Talks, Sunni Brown and Liya James share their insights on the creation of a virtual community centered around contemplative practices at the Center for Deep Self Design. They emphasize the impact these practices have had on their lives, enabling them to live more...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Yaddy Arroyo
Session Overview In this enlightening Tent Talks session with Yaddy Arroyo, we dove into the intricate world of AI UX design leadership. Yaddy shared valuable insights on the differences between traditional UX design leadership and AI UX design leadership, emphasizing the importance of a diverse...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Jane Ruffino
The session with Jane Ruffino explored the often overlooked yet crucial role of content in technology and design. Jane, a content strategist, discussed how content acts as a foundational infrastructure in digital products and services, likening it to the integral but usually invisible components…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Tim Frick
In this episode of Tent Talks, Tim Frick delves into the evolving landscape of digital sustainability, a topic that's gaining traction but still relatively niche. Tim discusses recent regulatory changes, like the EU's Climate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Biden's executive order on AI,...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Steve Portigal
The session with Steve Portigal, discussing the second edition of his book "Interviewing Users," delved into how the field of user research has evolved over the past decade. Steve highlighted significant shifts, including changes in societal norms, the rise of remote work due to the pandemic, and...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Haley Stracher
Haley Stracher shared her expertise on user onboarding, emphasizing the criticality of the initial user experience. Her practical, three-step method for effective onboarding—introduction, cognitive load management, and retention through rewards—highlights the significance of a user's first...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Jesse James Garrett
In this insightful session, Jesse James Garrett, a visionary in the field, delves into the intricacies of design leadership amidst the dynamic interplay between executive expectations and team aspirations. He reflects on the evolution of design leadership, the spectrum of design maturity, and...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Carmen Medina
Carmen Medina, a former CIA officer, shared her experiences and insights on being a 'rebel' within a bureaucratic setting during the Tent Talks session. Medina spent 32 years at the CIA, starting her rebellious journey in the mid-90s when the digital revolution sparked her interest. Despite…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Donna Lichaw
In this Tent Talks session, Chicago Camps engages in a rich conversation with Donna Lichaw, discussing the essence of leadership impact and how leaders can assess and enhance their impact within their organizations. Donna shares insights from her new book and her experiences coaching leaders,...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Amy Bucher
Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Amy Bucher titled, “Personalizing Behavior Change: The Intersection of AI, Ethics, and Team Collaboration:” Session Introduction: Amy Bucher discusses personalization in behavior change. Highlights the importance of tailoring communication...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Shannon Leahy
Shannon Leahy explores the importance and versatility of using common office tools for UX deliverables. She shares her experience as a self-taught designer, the benefits of democratizing design processes, and tips for effective team collaboration. She also offers a candid perspective on the...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Billie Mandel
Billie Mandel focuses on the well-intentioned yet harmful behaviors people exhibit in tech workplaces that contribute to toxicity. She outlines the top 5 such behaviors and offers tangible solutions for each, from avoiding complicit bystander tendencies to fostering transparent communication. Top…
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Tent Talks Featuring: Jenae Cohn
Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Jenae Cohn titled, “Design for Learning:” Design Philosophy Jenae emphasizes that learning should center on the needs, motivations, and concerns of the learners, not just content delivery. Variety in learning methods, social interactions,...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Janelle Ward
Determining Organization Maturity: Start assessing during interviews. Consider the clarity of decision-making in research paths. Supporting Research Team Growth: Align with goals, involve in maturity determination, foster collaboration, and share insights. Handling Hybrid Lead/Manager Role:...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Dan Brown
Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Dan Brown titled, “The Information Architecture of Products:” Embracing Change in Design Acknowledges the inevitability of change in design and the importance of flexibility. Emphasizes the alignment of understanding within a team, even if...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Billy Carlson, Leon Barnard, & Michael Angeles
Introducing Wireframing to Everyone: Wireframing is a technique often reserved for designers, but a new approach seeks to make it accessible to everyone, including product people, developers, managers, entrepreneurs, and non-designers. The goal is to teach these individuals not only to visualize...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Andrea Mignolo
Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Andrea Mignolo titled, “Getting Started in the Coaching Leadership Style”: Evolution of Coaching Leadership - Emphasizes deepening the practice, moving from having answers to embracing uncertainty. - Encourages curiosity, creativity,...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Lou Rosenfeld
Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Lou Rosenfeld titled, “The Rosenfeld Media Approach to Curating High-Quality Content”: Role of IA and UX in Content Curation: Lou Rosenfeld highlights that his approach is to use IA and UX skills in an untraditional manner to curate...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Natalie Dunbar
Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Natalie Dunbar titled, "Health, Wellness, and Self-Care: Maintaining a Strong UX Practice Core": Health, Wellness, and Self Care in UX Design: Natalie defines health in UX design as how a system is performing, similar to the way heuristic...
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Tent Talks Featuring: Jonathan McFadden - It’s Okay to Be Inflexible in Content Design
On Tuesday, April 11th at 5:00pm CDT, Jonathan McFadden joined us for a live Q&A session: “It’s Okay to Be Inflexible in Content Design.” Jonathan McFadden Jonathan McFadden is a senior content designer at Shopify, where he partners with a team of designers to create better experiences for users…
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Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway–If it’s a cool idea, we’d love to hear about it and share it!What is a Tent Talk? That’s a great question, we’d love to tell you. Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format–we like to think of them as “S’mores-sized content” because that’s pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything–we don’t want to limit ourselves, or you.
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