Alkistis Mavroeidi

Alkistis Mavroeidi

Director of Product Design

KAYAK

KAYAK

Alkistis Mavroeidi is Product Design Director at the online travel company KAYAK, overseeing KAYAK's metasearch product. Through the use of UX Research, design thinking and UX practice methodologies, Alkistis works alongside KAYAK’s team of product managers, product designers and engineers to help build and deliver products that make it easier for people to experience the world.

Prior to her time at KAYAK, Alkistis worked at the tech startup Building Conversation and focused on leveraging VR and AR technologies to inform product design decisions. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering from Greece’s NTUA polytechnic school and a Master in Design Studies (MDes) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Upcoming Talks

UXDX USA 2024

16 May 2024

Continuous Discovery
Main Stage

From data to stakeholder input, diverse needs and executive goals, optimizing for the masses or delighting your power users, Product Design is often about connecting the dots to strike the delicate balance between efficiency and value. In this talk, we will explore strategies & tools for efficiency when synthesizing different input like hearing our users' voices and balancing business goals in the journey from input to synthesis, to hypothesis, to validation.

Alkistis Mavroeidi
Alkistis Mavroeidi

@alkistismav

Director of Product Design

KAYAK

KAYAK
 

Past Talks

16 August 2022

Continuous Design

Consistency in design is difficult, made more difficult when your design system supports several brands within different markets. So how did the team in KAYAK achieve this with a lean design team.
Follow Aleks and her teams journey as they built their design systems that services multiple global brands. She will touch on their learnings on:

  • How they adapted and restructured the design system to support their current needs;
  • Why a component based design system helped them best create consistent designs for multiple brands
  • How to avoid bottlenecks when knowledge sharing by establishing the Ambassador System; and
  • Any future improvement she envisages for the team.
Alkistis Mavroeidi
Alkistis Mavroeidi

@alkistismav

Director of Product Design

KAYAK

KAYAK
 
Continuous Design
Main Stage

Design Systems provide designers with a new way to build cohesive, consistent experiences at scale - to create truly great products.
This panel will explore the ways different companies are approaching design systems to achieve greater alignment throughout the team.

  • How will the role of the designer is evolving
  • Allowing designers to think-creatively on user needs
  • An evolution of what it means for design alignment
  • The importance of design alignment in product success
Alkistis Mavroeidi
Alkistis Mavroeidi

@alkistismav

Director of Product Design

KAYAK

KAYAK
 
Davy Fung
Davy Fung

@cobradave

Product Design Manager, Design Systems

Disney Streaming

Disney Streaming
 
Troy Azmoon
Troy Azmoon

VP, Platform and Product Design

ServiceNow

ServiceNow
 
Donnie D'Amato
Donnie D'Amato

@donniedamato

Design Systems Architect

GoDaddy

GoDaddy
 
Continuous Design

Consistency in design is difficult, made more difficult when your design system supports several brands within different markets. So how did the team in KAYAK achieve this with a lean design team.
Follow Aleks and her teams journey as they built their design systems that services multiple global brands. She will touch on their learnings on:

  • How they adapted and restructured the design system to support their current needs;
  • Why a component based design system helped them best create consistent designs for multiple brands
  • How to avoid bottlenecks when knowledge sharing by establishing the Ambassador System; and
  • Any future improvement she envisages for the team.
Alkistis Mavroeidi
Alkistis Mavroeidi

@alkistismav

Director of Product Design

KAYAK

KAYAK