Northwest Design Profile: Ana Maria Pinto da Silva - UX Microsoft

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UX concepts done by Ana's group at Microsoft


Speaking at the IDSA Western Design Conference Seattle 2012 is Ana Maria Pinto da Silva, Senior UX Designer, Microsoft, Strategic Prototyping. Ana Pinto da Silva leads design for Microsoft’s Strategic Prototyping and Advanced Strategies Group (StratPro). Her work synthesizes her interests in storytelling, architecture and emerging technologies and her deep passion for creative collaboration. Ana’s previous experience includes game development, architecture, and interactive media. Her work has garnered several awards including the Al Falah Grant from U.C. Berkeley in 2002 and a Webby Worthy Award in 2003. In addition to her media work, Ana has been an instructor at San Francisco State’s Multimedia Studies Program developing and teaching courses on interactive media history and development. She has extensive non-profit board experience including her current work as a board member for Artist Trust and is the founder of Seattle’s Pecha Kucha chapter. Ana received her B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley and her MDesS from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is a graduate of Seattle’s Leadership Tomorrow’s serving as class valedictorian in 2009.


Ana's presentation will be about: 


"Culture, Courage & Clients. Design Collaboration Re-imagined.  Collaboration between teams of interdisciplinary designers and complex clients is central to our work as designers. A great collaboration has immense transformative power for the client, the vendor and above all, the end user. This talk will explore how the ways in which strong project cultures ensure both courageous collaboration and design excellence."


Ana Maria will be speaking at the IDSA Western Design Dialogue Conference 2012 in Seattle, May 4th and 5th

More speakers will be featured here and listed on the IDSA website.

To learn more about the conference check the IDSA site page here.
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