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UXDX · Washington DC · Feb 28, 2026

UXDX Community:DC: Beyond Good Product, Into Impact

Date

Feb 28, 2026

15:30 - 16:30

Venue

Cleveland Park Public Library

3310 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, United States

Format

In-Person

America/New_York

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Where product, design and engineering people meet to learn from real work.

A local meetup bridging the gap between Product, UX, Design, and Dev to build better products, faster together.

Expect real case studies, candid lessons and a room of peers working through similar product-delivery challenges.

Hosted by

Swarna Pandu
UX Researcher
Jessica Witmer
Senior Product Designer

Agenda

Sat28 Feb

3:30 pm

In-Person only

The Strategic UX Advocate: Driving Influence through Clarity and Metrics

Are you tired of fighting for a "seat at the table" only to be asked to "just make it pretty"?

Join Lina Reynolds, Lead UX Strategist, for a tactical deep dive into how UX professionals can transform from order-takers into strategic partners. Drawing from her 10+ years of experience and her recent panel at UXCON '25, Lina will share how she used Clarity and Metrics to lead high-impact projects at Ford Credit, including a dealer application that achieved a record-breaking 82 NPS.

Lina Reynolds

Lead UX Strategist

Ford Credit

Sat28 Feb

4:00 pm

In-Person only

From Stuck to Constraints-Based Strategy

"We can’t do that here." Sound familiar? If you’ve worked in healthcare, finance, or any risk-sensitive environment, you’ve heard all the ways innovation gets stalled. Regulation, legal, compliance, lack of time, too many cooks... But what if constraints weren’t the enemy? Using constraints as a starting point for smarter strategy. It’s practical, fast, and made for product and design leaders.

Faz Besharatian

Product Strategy & Design Leader

North X Normal

3:30pm

In-Person only

The Strategic UX Advocate: Driving Influence through Clarity and Metrics

Are you tired of fighting for a "seat at the table" only to be asked to "just make it pretty"?

Join Lina Reynolds, Lead UX Strategist, for a tactical deep dive into how UX professionals can transform from order-takers into strategic partners. Drawing from her 10+ years of experience and her recent panel at UXCON '25, Lina will share how she used Clarity and Metrics to lead high-impact projects at Ford Credit, including a dealer application that achieved a record-breaking 82 NPS.

Lina Reynolds

Lead UX Strategist

Ford Credit

4:00pm

In-Person only

From Stuck to Constraints-Based Strategy

"We can’t do that here." Sound familiar? If you’ve worked in healthcare, finance, or any risk-sensitive environment, you’ve heard all the ways innovation gets stalled. Regulation, legal, compliance, lack of time, too many cooks... But what if constraints weren’t the enemy? Using constraints as a starting point for smarter strategy. It’s practical, fast, and made for product and design leaders.

Faz Besharatian

Product Strategy & Design Leader

North X Normal

Cleveland Park Public Library

3310 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, United States

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