Kelly Dern
Senior Staff Product Designer at SoFiKelly Dern is a Senior Staff Product Designer at SoFi, where she shapes the future of personal finance. She is responsible for the design vision, strategy, and execution of innovative, user-centric fintech solutions that impact millions of users.
Prior to joining SoFi, Kelly worked on Gemini for Meet at Google, Google Nest, start-ups, and Adidas on various product and UX projects, ranging from hardware-software integration to health tech solutions.
She received a Google Product Excellence Award for her design work on Inclusive Design Works, a game that simulates different impairments.
Kelly enjoys learning new skills and sharing her knowledge as a speaker, mentor, and advisor in the design community.
Inclusive Design with Gen AI
This hands-on workshop explores how to leverage multi-step prompting in generative AI (GenAI) to design inclusive user journeys, emphasizing product inclusion and equity.
It will cover how to co-create user interfaces (UIs) with GenAI tools while understanding your role as a product creator in this collaborative process. The discussion will also delve into strategies for mitigating bias in the design process and explore approaches to creating more inclusive large language models (LLMs).
What you will learn:
- Practicing multi-step prompting to create inclusive user journeys
- Discussion of designing for product inclusion and equity and what that means as a product creator
- Co-creating user interfaces (games, UIs and layouts) with genAI tools.
- Learning what your role is as a product creator in this process
- Developing inclusive AI patterns and principles that push the boundaries of design, while adapting to a broader user base
- How to limit bias in your design process
- Creating inclusive large language models (LLMs)