Past roles: speaker and volunteer
Madonnalisa Chan is a consultant in content and user experience design, focusing on strategic design for brands and applications. She partners with businesses to identify challenges, create solutions, and help them achieve their goals. For over 20 years, she has come alongside colleagues and clients in cross-functional teams to build innovative products in fast-paced environments and achieve measurable results.
Madonnalisa’s goal with every project is to invest in the people she’s working with and act as a bridge between groups, both to facilitate communication within teams and to provide strategic solutions, not only for the project at hand, but also for the business at large. Transparency, integrity, and relationship-building operate at the core of everything she does. She is also involved with a variety of organizations that promote women in design and technology including PDX Women in Technology and Women Talk Design as well as being one of the founders of the IA Institute and helping birth Boxes and Arrows. She has attended the IA Summit/Conference on and off since the beginning in 2000.