Mel Bernstein
Bio
Hello! I'm a Minneapolis-based UX engineer. I love biking, jazz, and sharing good food with friends and family!
Since moving back to Minneapolis and getting involved in local advocacy groups, I've started to connect the pieces between digital and physical UX.
Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- No Cloud Required: Running an AI RAG Pipeline on your Phone
- The Future of Energy and the 30X Problem
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- When Disability Is Misread: Safety in High-Stress Systems
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- Deep Reflection, Vulnerability, and Learning: How AI Can Help Unlock Your 5%
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- We Won a Global Hackathon. Then We Built a Real Company. Here's What Changed.
- ✱✱ State of Minnestar: A Community Conversation on the Past, Present & What’s Possible! ✱✱
- Crafternoon
- I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
- Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
- From Uncle Sam to Civic Tech: Rebuilding Civic Engagement for Gen Z Using Design Thinking
- Three Musicians, One Engineer: Building AI Systems for Musicians in Minneapolis
- I Learned How to Tell Stories in This Building — Here's What Most Techies Miss
- Design - AI Agents + Skills in Figma