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Design Evenings VAN: Crafting Experiences Across Products, Platforms, and Play

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Design Evenings VAN: Crafting Experiences Across Products, Platforms, and Play

In this session, design leaders from Arc’teryx, TELUS, and Asana shared how they combined creativity, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to create meaningful, industry-spanning user experiences.

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Nov 5, 2025

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Raphael Marques

Senior Product Designer
Sarah Coney

Senior UX/UI Designer
Chris Pearson

Staff Product Designer

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"AI moves our work up the funnel — less time making pixels, more time trying to figure out how to be influential."

- Sarah Coney, Senior UX/UI Designer, Arc’teryx

Raphael Marques

Senior Product Designer

Raphael Marques is a Senior Product Designer at Telus, where he designs customer-facing products with clarity, empathy, and innovation. With a passion for simplifying complex systems through human-centred design and strong expertise in user flows and visual design, he crafts experiences that resonate.
Sarah Coney

Senior UX/UI Designer

Sarah Coney is a Senior UX/UI Designer at Arc’teryx, bringing a deep passion for crafting premium outdoor digital experiences. She blends intuitive interface design with e-commerce insights to create seamless and engaging journeys across platforms.
Chris Pearson

Staff Product Designer

Chris Pearson is a Staff Product Designer at Asana, where he shapes experience frameworks and design systems that support seamless team collaboration at scale. Grounded in human-centred design and product strategy, he simplifies complex workflows and elevates how global teams work together.

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