Jill Tomasson Goodwin

It's no secret that we like to have a good time. Heck, Fluxible is primarily a party disguised as a design conference! To keep aligned with this vision, we carefully select our speakers. While talent, smarts, charisma, and charm are qualities we value, it's their fun quotient that really seals the deal for us. Take, for example, the person profiled in this post: she has been intimately linked with the finer side of tequila, an experience we believe is only going to benefit this conference.

Please, allow us to introduce the highly awesome Jill Tomasson Goodwin!

Jill has been having a great time teaching in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo for 25 years, in the area of communication design, including UX Design. She is also co-founder of a highly successful uWaterloo initiative, REAP — a public-private sector research innovation ecosystem that studies and promotes platform entrepreneurship. Within REAP, students mash-up, reconfigure, and integrate REAP partners' technology with other technologies, thereby extending its overall functionality and accelerating its adoption into new markets. To do this, REAP teaches students to find the intersection of UX design with marketing, helping them assess and then design and build the best possible user experience: one that meets real needs, differentiates the product, and grows the business.

Jill is a student of "the design of flow" in tai chi, qigong, traditional Chinese medicine, swimming, and meditation. Now she can add Fluxible to the list as well!

Stay tuned for further announcements about additional speakers and details of Jill’s session at Fluxible.