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Nate Wearin

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Nate Wearin

Nate Wearin is co-founder and head of research & design at Fuego UX, a Boulder-based agency that takes on research, strategy, and design for complex products. Over the past 15 years, he has worked across consulting, startups, and product companies, and his team has delivered end-to-end design and research for 55 clients. He studied interdisciplinary design and human-computer interaction, and he co-runs the Denver Product Summit. His current focus is on how AI is reshaping research, design, and the roles around them, and what stays human as the work speeds up.

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