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Rebecca Anne Nguyen    

Author, Creative Nonfiction Writer, Feminist & Mental Health Advocate

Rebecca Anne Nguyen is the award-winning author (with Tom Voss) of "Where the War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal (New World Library, 2019), a 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Silver Award winner for Autobiography & Memoir. A former professional actress, Rebecca dazzles audiences with her heartfelt enthusiasm, meaningful storytelling, and practical tips on single parenthood, work-life balance, creativity, and personal innovation.

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Almighty Artifacts: How to plug in the right tools, templates, and documents for your content lifecycle

Every UX content team needs artifacts to help you do your best work, collaborate better, and help non-content folks understand what the heck you do, anyway. But which artifacts do you really need? Which will make your life easier, stand the test of time, and add value every day (instead of sitting in a digital drawer, collecting dust)?

  • Discover which tools, templates, and documentation you need (and which you don’t).
  • Learn how to activate each artifact at the right point in your content lifecycle.
  • Understand when, where, how, and why to use each artifact based on project size, timeline, and squishy things like team dynamics.

My Accidental Book Deal

Learn the ins and outs of the publishing process from Rebecca Anne Nguyen, co-author of the award-winning memoir, WHERE WAR ENDS.

Perfect for writers, aspiring authors, and anyone with a story to tell, this talk reveals:

  • How to draft a nonfiction book proposal and find a literary agent
  • What to expect when pitching your book to publishers
  • The co-creation process and the challenges of writing someone else's memoir
  • Transitioning from nonfiction to fiction and back

Fire your Inner expert

When we obsess over expertise -- building it, maintaining it, and making sure others know we've got it -- we lose the creative power inherent in curiosity and wonder.

Learn how to tap into your natural state of ""not knowing"" to:

  • unlock deeper reservoirs of creativity
  • foster healthy collaboration
  • find truly innovative solutions to complex problems

Inconceivable! Content design collaboration inspired by The Princess Bride

If you're going to storm the castle and rescue the princess, you can't do it alone. Just as Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik worked as a trio to save Buttercup, designers can solve any challenge by collaborating across three key disciplines: content design, UX design, and research. In this session, we’ll share a practical, flexible collaboration model to help you leverage the unique skill sets of each design discipline at key moments throughout a project—so no one gets stuck in the fire swamp.

Achieve combat-free collaboration that inspires trust, respect, and harmony across design disciplines

""Drop...your…sword.""

Collaboration doesn't have to feel like combat. When done right, content designers are empowered as partners — and leaders — throughout the design process.

Leverage the unique skill sets of cognitively diverse teams

""I can’t compete with you physically, and you’re no match for my brains.""

Not everyone has the same talents, background, or perspective — and that's a good thing! We'll share how we flex our collaboration approach by shifting the lens through which we view the problem space and letting different disciplines lead the work at different times.

Understand Figma etiquette (Figmatiquette?): Practical collaboration tips for every day

""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.""

Are your Figma comments inconceivable to your design partners? Should you update design mocks directly or create your own content sandbox or...? The way we collaborate in Figma (or any tool) is a temperature check on our collaboration health as a team. We'll share practical ‘Figmatiquette’ that helps us avoid miscommunication and churn.

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