Speakers

Kate Rutter

: Blueprints for a Creative Culture: A Lightning Session of Rapid Collaboration

As UX designers, strategists and makers, creative thinking is the fuel we use to explore ideas, envision solutions and generate designs. Staying fresh and engaged is crucial to delivering great work. But it takes a team approach to create and foster a culture that thrives on creativity.

How does workplace culture support creative thinking? What activities do people and organizations do to foster curiosity, collective engagement and making ideas happen?

In this lightning-fast collaborative session, we'll start with a blueprint for a creative culture and introduce key elements needed to get there.

Then we'll roll up our sleeves and, working as a massive team, tap into the collective knowledge in the room and generate a set of approaches to share with each other and the broader UX community.

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Kate Rutter is a senior practitioner at Adaptive Path. During her ten plus years in the web industry, she's honed her talent for bringing companies and customers closer together through smart strategies and inventive design. She actively embraces the term "specialized generalist."

Kate's diverse and intense interests are constantly taking her and her clients to new places — her background spans technology, marketing, interactive media, and business management. She's worked with corporations, startups, and nonprofit organizations to help them grow, change and successfully chart new paths in ambiguous times and shifting markets.

Before joining Adaptive Path, Kate spent several years as a consultant focusing on web strategy and design. Prior to that, she was the Director of Business and Operations for The Crucible, a landmark nonprofit arts organization in the East Bay creative scene. During the bubble, Kate was Senior Director of E-business Development and Operations at Epicentric in San Francisco.

Past clients include: Travel + Leisure, Dice.com, Globo Networks, MICA.

Kate attended Wellesley College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art. She finds inspiration in a wide variety of subjects: Semiotics, textile arts, origami, code, urban design, fire, and other dangerous things. She is an active community leader as well as a formidable welder.