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Hayley Hughes

Design Director
HubSpot

Hayley is a Design Director at HubSpot, leading Design System and Cohesion Studio teams focused on driving product consistency and innovation. Prior to HubSpot, Hayley led product design teams focused on elevating quality and brand distinction via design language systems and building shopping experiences for customer trust and privacy on Nike.com and the Nike app. She is an advocate for building diverse, empowered teams and has deep experience driving cross-team and org-wide collaboration. She believes innovation and designing for the future requires people to design with, not just for, the communities and cultures they serve to reach the highest impact.

Hayley is an experienced design leader known for shaping large-scale design transformations and coaching design teams to build industry standard-setting design systems. Over her 15-year career, she has served on design leadership teams and executed design projects for IBM, Airbnb, Shopify, the Rubin Museum, NBC Universal, and The Clinton Foundation. Her experience spans consumer and enterprise technology, entertainment, commerce and retail, hospitality, user experience, brand, and strategy.

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Events featuring Hayley Hughes
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