Kevin Hawkins

Kevin Hawkins — Vice President of Product Design & Research at Monta. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Kevin Hawkins

Vice President of Product Design & Research

Kevin Hawkins is a multi-disciplinary designer of 17 years that lives in Barcelona. He’s been a serial startup founder, product designer, and is a seasoned instructor at GrowthTribe and Georgetown University for UX, Design Thinking, and Data Viz. He is a Liberian-American that loves building communities and launching products. Previously, he’s been lucky to work with companies such as Glovo, Booking.com, PwC, EY, Gap Inc, Uber, and more.

Past talks

4 talks · 4 events

2024

UXDX EMEAOct 2024

AI in Design and Research: Revolution or Regression?

Should UX designers embrace AI to drive efficiency and stay relevant (AI Enthusiast) or focus on originality and differentiation opportunities outside of AI (Positive Sceptic)? This debate will explore AI's impact on the creative industry and what it means for UX designers in terms of product development and professional growth. The Combatants: - The Enthusiast: An advocate for empowering ourselves with AI and embracing it across all processes. - The Sceptic: A critic of the over-reliance on AI, arguing that it may lead to superficial conclusions and similar outputs across the industry. The Format: - Each participant will outline their core arguments for or against the use of AI in design and research. - The debate will be divided into three rounds, each focusing on a key point of contention: - UX Research: Can AI-driven research help build impactful products, or is it designed to give superficial conclusions and data? - Creative Design: How much should UX designers embrace AI across the creative process. Will it lead to everyone going down the same road? - Job Security: Can AI tools enhance job security by making designers more efficient, or will it make the designer role obsolete? - Moderator Q&A: The moderator will pose questions to each debater, allowing them to dive deeper into their positions and address each other's arguments. - Closing Statements: Each participant will summarise their key takeaways and offer a final perspective on the future role of AI in UX design and research.

John Cleere

Kevin Hawkins

2023

UXDX EMEAOct 2023

Rethinking Working Environments to Maximize Productivity and Well-being.

The goal of this interactive forum on working environments is to delve into the various factors that influence employee productivity, satisfaction, and overall well-being in the workplace. Participants in this session will explore different aspects of working environments, such as physical setup, culture, flexibility, and technology, and discuss their impact on employee performance and organizational success. The goal of the debate is to analyse and compare the pros and cons of different working environments and identify strategies to create an optimal environment that fosters productivity, engagement, and employee satisfaction.

Kevin Hawkins

UXDX USAMay 2023

Team Downsized: How Do You Move Forward?

When all your processes are made for large teams and embedded resources, what do you do when the team you've built has been pulled from underneath you? In this session, Kevin will discuss the growth of his team at Glovo and the approach taken post-forced downsizing - a time when research & experimentation are arguably most needed during a time of unchartered territory. Kevin will discuss the growth, the downsizing, lessons learnt and positive hindsights. With a goal of giving you the tools needed to show more empathy and make your UX team a strategic arm of business growth and maturity.

Kevin Hawkins

2022

UXDX EMEAOct 2022

Forum

Product Strategy

Strategy means different things to different people. But having a clear strategy can help to align teams on what to focus on, and more importantly what NOT to focus on. In this forum, we will chat about the different structures that teams use to create and share their strategy, how to ensure that the strategy aligns with the business goals, how to avoid feature lists, and how to keep the strategy in sync as things change.

Kevin Hawkins