Hi, I’m Elaine Anzaldo - SF bay area conversation designer 🌁
<aside> 💜 About me: conversation designer and smart glasses girlie. CxD blogger, mentor, and community builder. Creator of convofolios, the only public resource to discover conversation design portfolios.
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Conversation designer @ Meta on smart glasses for the past 2.5 years!! To learn more about my professional work, please reach out to me directly on LinkedIn.
iF Design - Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses
(written by Elaine A.)
Jan 2025
2025 List of UX + AI Design Conferences
Dec 2024
Answering your design questions
Oct 2024
How to Find and Become a Conversation Design Mentor
Aug 2024
Growing as a conversation designer
Mar 2024
Not all conversation designers
Jan 2024
UX + AI Design Conferences in 2024
Dec 2023
The Ultimate Conversation Design Course Guide
Nov 2023
Aug 2023
Becoming a senior conversation designer: how to tell when you’ve ✨made✨ it
Jun 2023
Meet the Voice This! Podcast Team
May 2023
How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 3
Mar 2023
Confessions of a conversation designer
Nov 2022
Everyday Speech: Examples of TTS out in the wild
Sep 2022
Jun 2022
Level up your conversation design portfolio
Feb 2022
How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 2
Reflecting on 1 year as a full-time conversation designer
Jan 2022
2021 was kind to me: a year in review
Think A ‘Bot’ It: Conversational AI, XR, and Fashion
Oct 2021
Hey Facebook, What Can You Do?
Aug 2021
6 months of Conversation Design
Jul 2021
How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 1
Jun 2021
5 tips for better multimodal design | Voiceflow
Apr 2021
Hey Spotify, What Can I Ask You?
Feb 2021
My Journey into Conversation Design
Dec 2020
Don’t just do “more”: creating actionable goals for 2021
Nov 2020
Working contract in tech: the good, bad, and the perks
(featuring Elaine A.)
Nov 2024
Oct 2024
#17 Happy Diwali: CxD community voices, mentors, and tea
#16 Is Conversation Design... Team Edward?
Aug 2024
Apr 2024
Mar 2024
#12 The one where we move slow
Sep 2023
#11 Your conversation design questions, answered
Jul 2023
Bot Jobs | Conversational Chronicles: 20 Questions With... Elaine Anzaldo
Jun 2023
#10 ChatGPT understands, except it doesn't
May 2023
Apr 2023
#8 Changing tides for conversation design
Feb 2023
Jan 2023
Voice This! #6 It's been a year
Oct 2022
Expanding the definition of conversation design | Voiceflow
Sep 2022
How to structure your conversation design portfolio | Voiceflow
Aug 2022
Voice This! #3 How do we market voice tech?
Jul 2022
Voice This! #2 On this Tuesday
Jun 2022
8 Conversation Designers Share EXACTLY How They Broke Into the Industry
Mar 2022
Personal Branding: Finding Your Voice as a Conversation Designer
Voice This! Podcast: Bonus Episode with elaineinthebay
Women Voice AI Influencers Discuss Breaking the Bias for International Women’s Day 2022
Dec 2021
Podcast Ep6 – Life Of A Multimodal Conversation Designer
Aug 2021
Elaine and Cecilia Talk Conversation Design
Jul 2021
https://nlx.ai/news/finding-conversational-solutions-for-banking
May 2021
↓ Click into each card to learn more about each version history and read my retrospective feedback on what went well (or wrong) with my portfolio iterations.