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I’ve been very fortunate to speak for and with many people about the things that keep me professionally interested. Below, you’ll find an assortment of talks and podcasts I’ve done over the last decade. If you’d like me to speak at a public or private event or on a podcast about design process, running a successful agency, or how to build great digital products, please get in touch.
Creativity, Building SuperFriendly, and Design Systems with Dan Mall
Technically Speaking
Leading Design
New York
Designer/Developer Collaboration Workshop
Dribbble
How Designers can be Better Partners
Zeroheight
Flexible Business Models
Bureau of Digital
Be a Better Partner to Developers workshop
online
Learn Design Systems with Dan Mall Dribbble workshop
online
Design Ops Summit
Online
How to start your own design agency
The Futur
Design at Scale
Rosenfeld Media
Creative Leadership Summit
HOW Design
Creative Directions
Association of Registered Graphic Designers
”Make Design Systems People Want to Use” workshop
Smashing Conference
Creating boundaries and psychological safety
Design To Be
SuperFriendly Design Systems with Dan Mall
Thunder Nerds
Learn Design Systems with Dan Mall Dribbble workshop
online
Freelance Founders
online
Exploring design systems for services / Service Design Show, Episode #116
podcast
Putting Your Components in Context with Dan Mall
The Object-Oriented UX Podcast
Design Ops Summit
Online
StackYack: Dan Mall on Collaboration
podcast
UX+
Online
Clarity
Online
How to put a price on service design / Service Design Show, Episode #107
podcast
Ladies that UX ATL
Online
AIGA Portfolio Festival
Online
Bureau of Digital Design Systems Q&A
Online
Design Systems AMA
Online
An Evening with Dan Mall from SuperFriendly
Online
So, You Want to Be a Successful UX Practitioner?
Online
Hi-Res: Episode 139
podcast
Let’s Learn Design Systems
video
Roots Podcast: The Super Orchestrator
podcast
Reunited with Dan Mall
podcast
An Event Apart
Denver, CO
Superman: The Movie Retrospective for Comic Book Junto
video
Smashing Conference: Designer vs. Developer!
New York City
PhillyCHI
Philadelphia, PA
Growing Accessibility and Inclusion Through Design Systems
online
Asbury Agile
Asbury Park, NJ
Artifact Conference
Austin
Design Systems Slack AMA
online
Designer News AMA
online
Dribbble Hang Time
New York City
Bluecadet Talks
Philadelphia, PA
Pricing Design with guest Dan Mall
podcast
An Event Apart
Boston, MA
Epicurrence
Breckenridge, CO
An Event Apart
Seattle, WA
Owner Summit 2019
Austin, TX
Design Driven
podcast
Interview: Founder of SuperFriendly Dan Mall, Sharing Culture & Our Myopic Tech Society
video
Designer + Developer Collaboration workshop
Philadelphia, , PA
Clarity Conference
New York City
Awwwards Conference
New York City
Smashing Conference
New York City
Thunder Nerds: Dan Mall – An Event Apart Orlando 2018
podcast
“Till Launch Do Us Part” at An Event Apart
Orlando, FL
Frontend Conference
Zurich
Dan Mall on Optimizing Your Day, Pricing, The Hollywood Business Model, SuperBooked and More
podcast
An Event Apart
Washington DC
Smashing Conference
Toronto
Generate Conference
New York City
“Which New Skills Should Designers Pursue?” for UIE’s All You Can Learn Library
webinar
“Art directing for the web,” on Unfinished Business
podcast
“But what I really want to do is creative direct,” on The Big Web Show
podcast
LoopConf
Salt Lake City, UT
UXPin Design Systems Virtual Summit 2018
online
Lessons for Leaders: The Heartbeat Interview
podcast
UI22
Boston, MA
Rethinking Full Stack: Cost and Compromise
online
REVOLVE Conference
Charleston, SC
Dribbble Hang Time Boston
Boston, MA
Marketing Mentor Podcast & Interview with Dan Mall
Podcast
About Face: How About.com Changed its Design Process and became Dotdash
Podcast
Friends Talk Frontend
Podcast
An Event Apart
Washington, DC
The Great Debate: Time & Materials Versus Value Pricing
online
Designers + Geeks: Purpose × Design
New York City
What is Your Hourly Rate?
Podcast
Frontend United
Athens, Greece
Louder Than Ten
Livestream
An Event Apart
Boston, MA
Freelance.tv
Online
Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise
Philadelphia, PA
O’Reilly Design Conference
San Francisco, CA
The Hacking UI Master Class
online
Owner Summit
San Diego, CA
Hustle
Podcast
O’Reilly Design Podcast
Podcast
Motion and Meaning
Podcast
Increasing Agency Profit with Value-Based Pricing
Podcast
Yonder
Podcast
Ask a Freelancer: “Next Stop: Freelance”
Podcast
“So…what do I make?” for UIE’s All You Can Learn Library
Webinar
AIGA Design Conference
Las Vegas, NV
An Event Apart
Orlando, FL
Mirror Conference
Braga, Portugal
From the Front
Bologna, Italy
Pixel Up!
Johannesburg, South Africa
Vine offsite
New York City
Refresh Philly
Philadelphia, PA
99u
New York City
Generate Conference
New York City
Smashing Conference
San Francisco, CA
Epicurrence: The Montues
Lake Tahoe, CA
GAiN
Washington, DC
Owner Summit
Atlanta, GA
Design+Agency, by Invision
New York City
Design Details
Podcast
User Defenders
Podcast
JS Open Day NYC, by Microsoft
New York City
dsgnday
Amsterdam
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Podcast
Digital Project Management Summit
Philadelphia, PA
Epicurrence #2
North Shore, Oahu, HI
Build Right: Maker Series
Dayton, OH
99u Local: Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
CTRL+CLICK CAST
Podcast
Unfinished Business
Podcast
The Start
Podcast
The Bureau Briefing
Podcast
Design Edu Today
Podcast
An Event Apart
San Diego, CA
Creative Director Camp
Philadelphia, PA
BizCraft
Podcast
Future of Web Design
London
Unfinished Business
Podcast
Web Sherpa Summit
Online
An Event Apart
Atlanta, GA
Creative Mornings PHL
Philadelphia, PA
Owner Summit
Austin, TX
An Event Apart
San Francisco, CA
Build Right: Maker Series
Dayton, OH
The Businessology Roadshow
San Francisco, CA
DPM Philly: Collaborating for the Win
Philadelphia, PA
Digital Biz Summit
Online
The Businessology Roadshow
Online
An Event Apart
Washington DC
Web Friends
Podcast
Design Deliverables, for Typecast
Webinar
Beyond Tellerrand
Düsseldorf, Germany
An Event Apart
Boston, MA
Let’s Make Mistakes
Podcast
Pencil vs. Pixel
Podcast
RWD Summit
Online
The Bitchcast
Podcast
Smashing Conference
Freiburg, Germany
Digital Biz Summit
Online
Interlink Conference
Vancouver, Canada
Artifact Conference
Austin, TX
Happy Monday Podcast
Podcast>
FITC
Toronto, Canada
RWD Summit
Online
Non Breaking Space Show
Podcast
The Gently Mad
Podcast
BizCraft
Podcast
AIGA Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Web Design Day
Pittsburgh, PA
Circles Conference
Grapevine, TX
Reasons to be Creative
Brighton, UK
Atlanta Web Design Group
Atlanta, GA
New Adventures in Web Design
Nottingham, UK
Elon University Interactive Media Interview
Interview
Responsive Web Design, for AIGA & Adobe
Webinar
SXSW: Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Panel
Austin, TX
Art Directors Club 90
Jury
Flash Intensive, for SVA
New York City
Miami Ad School
Brooklyn, NY
Future of Web Design
New York City
SXSW
Austin, TX
Flashpitt
Pittsburgh, PA
An Event Apart
Boston, MA
Future of Web Design
New York City
The University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
Refresh DC
Washington DC