Trip O’Dell discusses the secret advantages of neurodiversity in design teams, and why it’s an essential ingredient for healthy, effective, and progressive design cultures.

Highlights include:

⭐ Why do you feel connected to Captain Kirk? ⭐ What do we lose when we pressure our children to conform? ⭐ How important is language in normalising neurodiversity? ⭐ What role did accessibility play in Amazon Flex’s Driver Experience? ⭐ How does design storyboarding help to achieve alignment?

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Who is Trip O’Dell?

Trip is a Senior Director of Product Design at Pearson, a 176 year old world-leading education company that helps people to achieve their potential through learning and assessment experiences.

Before joining Pearson, Trip was the Chief Experience Officer at Habitat Logistics, a Y-Combinator backed startup, where he led people, process, and product.

Trip has also worked as a UX designer and design leader for some of the biggest names in tech, including Adobe, Microsoft and Amazon.

During his time at Amazon, Trip was a UX Lead for Audible, a Design Manager for Alexa, and the Head of Design for Amazon’s Flex & Driver Experience.

He is a named inventor on five design and technology related patents, including automated messaging, synchronous presentation of content with braille translation, and dynamically guided user reviews.

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Find Trip here:

Website: https://www.tripodell.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tripodell/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tripodell/

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