Briana Thomas
Senior Design Producer, Zendesk
Briana is a Senior Design Producer at Zendesk where she drives UX design quality, processes and frameworks to drive the customer-facing experiences in Product Design. Prior to Zendesk, she was a Design Program Manager for the Conversational AI Design team at Capital One. Outside of elevating design work in her day to day she is passionate about actively recruiting minority talent at her company. Briana is a proud alumni of Howard University in Washington D.C. and will endlessly nerd out about Afro-futurism and speculative design to create a better future.
Rosenverse talks by Briana:
" Silent leaders are people who prefer action over words and advocate in more intimate settings. "
The Quiet Force: Uncovering Hidden Leadership in High-Impact Design Teams
September 24, 2024
" The word intelligence in artificial intelligence leads many to read more into the technology than is actually there. "
The Big Question about Impact: A Panel Discussion
September 24, 2024
" Dogs and spam started filling the slides. That was a sign this meeting wasn’t working anymore. "
When Design Ops Comes in H.O.T. : A Tale of a Transformed Design Org
September 30, 2021