Hilary Hayes is an award winning, visionary experience designer and cross functional team leader at the forefront of immersive technologies.
Hilary’s unique specialism lies in her decade plus of expertise as an experience designer in every sense of the word: industrial design, UX design, wearable technology, UX research, conversational AI, augmented and virtual reality.
As an internationally recognized product design expert, Hilary leads research discovery into complex, ambiguous problem spaces uncovering and mapping opportunities to invent multisensory, multimodal interaction solutions leveraging new hardware and futuristic tech that meet real needs.
Hilary’s personal definition of success is having enough of anything to share, so they regularly speak internationally on all things product design strategy, research, and voice. She also mentors junior designers and has years of experience teaching UX design, UI design, and creating course content for voice experience design at the college level.
In this talk Hilary will illuminate the emerging best practices for conversation design in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality contexts. Learn how and when conversational interactions can enrich multimodal experiences, increase engagement and usability, creating more immersive experiences across realities.