Aleksandra Melnikova
@alex_andr_a
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Co-founder of Cosmic Velocity, making #inclusion happen by creating and re-shaping products and services and training teams.
London
Joined March 2010
Created a list of books with hope for a truly diverse world. Found a lot of great books in the process so that you can find them too. Project complete in 24 hours with the usual partner in crime @_laurahobson
https://t.co/mWTKYU9sRn
#diversity #inclusion #kids #books #design
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A list of children's books, collated with hope for a more diverse world.
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🗨 We also spoke to @alex_andr_a (Inclusive Research & Service Designer and Co-founder of Cosmic Velocity) following her talk to learn more about her background and career! Read our interview here:
As a leader, do you want to help create the futures of people, together with people? @alex_andr_a joined us at Product Unleashed to talk about four aspects of leadership she believes in: listening, co-creation, pro-active inclusion and sustainability. 📺 https://t.co/i5pI17p6Ps
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In this episode of Design Chats, @alex_andr_a talks about the values driving her agency’s work, the “beautiful and ever-changing” world of inclusive design, and leadership as a service. Listen now on: Apple Podcasts >> https://t.co/C9ueuf9Nza Spotify >> https://t.co/fOp1XWhChI
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🗺️ Product Unleashed: Strategy + Leadership (Thurs 17th Nov, 6-8:30pm) Get top advice on product strategy and leadership at this double bill featuring two great minds in the world of design, @tomprior and @alex_andr_a. https://t.co/gqHgpWGYd8
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**Strategy + Leadership** **With guest speakers:** Tom Prior & Aleksandra Melnikova **——————————** **Event description:** **——————————** In this exciting meetup we learn
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📩Our Curated Links mailer has just hit inboxes. We hope you are inspired and informed! We included... An interview with some of our #LeadingDesign London speakers. 👉 https://t.co/FQ7QZpekmO
@oliieliel @lwelchman @danabright20 @_whitneyand @breathingsince @alex_andr_a
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Leadership can be a lonely place. One of the reasons we started the Leading Design conferences was so that design leaders could learn from…
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Always dreamt of bringing more philosophy frameworks into design space. Move over SAFe agile and double diamond :)
.@alex_andr_a offers a different framework for mergers, using Buddhism's 3 marks of reality. 1. Annica - Acknowledge that everything will change 2. Dukkha - All living things suffer. Embrace the sorrow with your team 3. Anatta - Absence of self. You are ever-changing #LDConf
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.@alex_andr_a offers a different framework for mergers, using Buddhism's 3 marks of reality. 1. Annica - Acknowledge that everything will change 2. Dukkha - All living things suffer. Embrace the sorrow with your team 3. Anatta - Absence of self. You are ever-changing #LDConf
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Product people! Product Unleashed's November meetup brings you two talks from great minds in the world of design 🔥 - "Uncovering Product Treasure with Strategy Maps" - "Leadership as an ever-evolving service" 🗓 Thurs 17th November | 6-8:30pm 🎟 https://t.co/gqHgpWoOZ0
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Aleks Melnikova is Director at Cosmic Velocity. She will be talking on "Finding yourself in times of shifting landscapes". @alex_andr_a | 2-3 November 2022 | #LDConf #LeadingDesign | @BarbicanCentre | https://t.co/F1RA6lcy6h
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Super excited to be a part of this! Please join us for 2 days of excellent content and fascinating conversations ❤️
📣New Speaker📣 Aleks Melnikova is Director at Cosmic Velocity. She advocates for inclusion and diversity by coming up with (and building) tools and services for people from all walks of life. So glad you’re with us @alex_andr_a! 2-3 November 2022 | https://t.co/F1RA6lcy6h
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Alex shares her framework of intentional designing leadership. @alex_andr_a #bxd2022 #design #leadership
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This ❤️
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Likewise, lots of VR retail experiences boil down to “how can we take the frustrations and limitations of shopping in a physical environment and bring them to a virtual one”.
Every metaverse pitch I get on LinkedIn boils down to "we are building a new world where anything is possible and the only limit is your imagination. for example, in this new world you can buy and wear various clothes"
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We are excited to announce our prestigious judges for the Simply Open Awards 2022. Apply for the awards now: https://t.co/74oxB51iCV
#disability #simplyopenawards #innovation #awards
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I have been crafting a path to an accessible presentation and there was lots to learn: https://t.co/ZXg2kQAowO via @LinkedIn
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The story I'm about to tell you started last week. I was so excited to release the Inclusive Research Report (talking about how we make our research more inclusive as a process, and a field), that I...
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All for moving away from perceiving/creating design systems as rigid and overstructured to approaching them in a flexible, inclusive, human way. Great talk @Amy_Hupe and we laughed and clapped (a lot) ❤️ #UXLondon #inclusion
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Such an wonderful way of talking about our responsibility in making design (as a discipline) truly seen and considered, loved the presentation and loved the design jargon sketch, @laura_yarrow thank you for that mirror 😂❤️#UXLondon
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Loving the wisdom from @candiwrites at #UXLondon, the "respond, don't react" is something I'm working on daily 😅❤️ so many things resonated.
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Loved running the workshop, such a thoughtful and enthusiastic room of humans who want to make things better ❤️ tons of hope for the future of inclusive research
Great feedback from @alex_andr_a 's workshop: "Designing your own research methods for a very diverse audience" at #UXLondon 🤩 Attendees learned how to refine their own research practice, enjoy the experiment of applying design methodology to research and much more!
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