Sophie Tahran is a Senior Design Director at Condé Nast. After establishing content design as a discipline at The New Yorker, she expanded her focus to lead teams of product and content designers across Bon Appetit, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and more publications.

Speaking

Design Matters
Copenhagen, October 2024
Copenhagen, September 2023

Beyond Tellerrand
Düsseldorf, Germany, May 2024

Button Leadership Program
Online, October 2023

UX Nordic
Aarhus, Denmark, August 2023

Button Conference
Online, October 2022
Online, October 2020

Smashing Conference
Freiburg, Germany, September 2022
San Francisco, June 2022
Online, October 2020

Confab Conference (Keynote)
Online, May 2021

  • Product Crunch Berlin

    Online, September 2020



    Nordic.Design

    Stockholm, October 2019

    Awwwards Conference
    New York City, September 2019

    UX Content Design Meetup
    New York City, September 2019

    Writers of Silicon Valley
    Podcast interview, March 2019

    Design & Content Conference
    Vancouver, July 2018

    Every Word Matters
    Interview, April 2018

 

Writing

Advocating for the Value of Content Design
Q&A with Ditto

Who is Responsible for
Preventing Deceptive Patterns?

Article for Eye On Design

UX Writing in Practice
Article for the Adobe XD Ideas blog

Writing Is Designing
Technical review of the book

Remotely Closer to Gender Equality
Article for Within Magazine

Expanding Your Design System
Chapter on Voice & Tone for the book
by DesignBetter.Co

 

Teaching

School of Visual Arts: Masters’ Program in Interaction Design
Content Design panel
Spring 2024
Spring 2023

UX Content Collective:
Skills Seminar
Spring 2024

Parsons School of Design:
Masters’ Program in
Communication Design
Guest lecture, Spring 2020

The Cooper Union
School of Art: Web Design
Guest lecture, Fall 2019

Parsons School of Design:
Undergrad Communication Design
Guest lecture, Fall 2019

UX Writing Workshops
Ongoing