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Luke Wroblewski            

Digital Product Design & Strategy Expert; Known for Mobile First, Web Form Design, Polar & Bagcheck

Luke is currently a Managing Director and head of product at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier he was a Product Director at Google where he founded and led product management, user experience design and user research for Google's cross-product efforts on iOS and Android in addition to company-wide metrics & analytics, Blogger, Social Good, Location Sharing, Notifications, and more.

Luke joined Google when it acquired Polar in 2014 where he was the CEO and Co-founder. Before founding Polar, Luke was the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Bagcheck which was acquired by Twitter in 2011.

Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital, the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!, Lead User Interface Designer at eBay, and a Senior Interface Designer at NCSA: the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

Luke is the author of three popular Web design books (Mobile First, Web Form Design & Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability) in addition to many articles about digital product design and strategy. He is also a consistently top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and a Co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

Luke also founded LukeW Ideation & Design, a product strategy and design consultancy, and taught graduate interface design courses at the University of Illinois.

Speech Topics


Mobile In the Future

What we've learned over the past ten years of designing for the largest, most connected form of mass media on our planet.

Mobile Planet

A data-informed big picture view of our mobile planet, how to design products for it, covering onboarding, performance, touch gestures, and more.

Mind the Gap

Despite good intentions, lots of user-centered design isn’t. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls that prevent good design.

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