Shalanah Dawson
Bio
Shalanah has helped users craft everything from photo albums and paper snowflakes to educational resources and solar panel designs. Although she's done work that touches the whole stack, user interfaces are her true love.
Shalanah creates digital products at Livefront.
See more at Github and shalanah.com
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Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
- How I Use Notion to Run my Publishing Company
- Escape the Screenshot Graveyard: Using Notion AI to turn notes, memos & screenshots into action, content, and next steps
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
- Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
- Crafternoon
- Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue
- Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
- ✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
- Design - AI Agents + Skills in Figma
- Skill(.md)s, context engineering, and a way to take the garbage out
- Resume Refresh: Ready for AI, Designed to Impress
- From CAD to Injection-Molded Parts in 12 Hours
- Lessons learned building LAIC: Life Time’s AI Concierge
- AI Sucks ☯️
- PolitiClaw: building a local-first political co-pilot with OpenClaw 🦞
- What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
- The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge