Trip O’Dell - The Benefits of Neurodiversity in Design

Trip O’Dell discusses the secret advantages of neurodiversity in design teams, and why it’s an essential ingredient for healthy, effective, and progressive design cultures.

Highlights include:

⭐ Why do you feel connected to Captain Kirk?
⭐ What do we lose when we pressure our children to conform?
⭐ How important is language in normalising neurodiversity?
⭐ What role did accessibility play in Amazon Flex’s Driver Experience?
⭐ How does design storyboarding help to achieve alignment?

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Who is Trip O’Dell?

Trip is a Senior Director of Product Design at Pearson, a 176 year old world-leading education company that helps people to achieve their potential through learning and assessment experiences.

Before joining Pearson, Trip was the Chief Experience Officer at Habitat Logistics, a Y-Combinator backed startup, where he led people, process, and product.

Trip has also worked as a UX designer and design leader for some of the biggest names in tech, including Adobe, Microsoft and Amazon. 

During his time at Amazon, Trip was a UX Lead for Audible, a Design Manager for Alexa, and the Head of Design for Amazon’s Flex & Driver Experience. 

He is a named inventor on five design and technology related patents, including automated messaging, synchronous presentation of content with braille translation, and dynamically guided user reviews.

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Find Trip here:

Website: https://www.tripodell.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tripodell/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tripodell/

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