UX Design for Industrial Enterprise IoT

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Cory Kenealey is the Manager of User Experience at Blackline Safety, leading a team that designs intuitive UX and interfaces for hardware, software, and analytics-based safety products. With 20 years in design, he started in graphic design and front-end development before moving into UX for IoT, robotics, and agritech.

His work spans SaaS platforms, apps, AR, and HMI solutions. For five years at Blackline, Cory has driven innovation through human-centred design. Outside work, he enjoys travelling and live music, often finding ways to combine both.

Kyleigh Birce is a graduate from Mount Royal University's Information Design program, and has been working as an Information and UX Design at Blackline Safety since 2017. She has been involved with designing multiple products and features for Blackline, including their G6, EXO and EXO8 products, as well as multiple areas of Blackline Live, their fleet management and safety monitoring web portal.

Patrick Wu is currently a Senior User Experience Designer at Blackline Safety, where he has helped contribute to several new features across their hardware, software, and mobile app product lines. Prior to this role, he worked for over 10 years as a freelance graphic designer and communications consultant for tech and life sciences organizations. He is keenly interested in the ways that humans interact with technology and each other, and is passionate about ways that we can make people's everyday jobs a little less worse.

Taelynn Graham is a Lethbridge-based UX and Data Visualization Designer at Blackline Safety. She holds a BFA in New Media from the University of Lethbridge, has completed courses in statistics and psychology, and is UX certified through the Nielsen Norman Group.

She enjoys learning about complex topics and making them approachable for broader audiences, and working behind the scenes to improve processes between different teams. She only learned that “UX” was a formal profession in 2021, but has always had an eye for the details that help shape good experiences. Outside of work, she’s a runner, crafter, sudoku solver, and multi-instrumental musician.