At UX Y’all 2026, Gregor will explore how UX is evolving beyond digital interfaces as connected devices and smart products bring physical controls, embedded displays, mobile apps, and cloud services together.
By:
Clotilde Grimault
August 31, 2026
At UX Y’all 2026, Gregor will explore how UX is evolving beyond digital interfaces as connected devices and smart products bring physical controls, embedded displays, mobile apps, and cloud services together.
When: Fri, September 25th 2026, 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Where: Raleigh, NC
Find more here: www.uxyall.org
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UX design has traditionally focused on digital interfaces, but connected devices, smart products, and IoT systems now ask users to move between physical controls, embedded displays, mobile apps, and cloud services as one seamless experience. Product teams rarely build them that way. This session introduces Hardware UX: designing experiences that span physical and digital touchpoints as a coherent whole. Drawing from award-winning connected product work, it covers ecosystem journey mapping, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and prototyping methods that bridge hardware and software.Attendees will leave with a practical toolkit for designing beyond the screen.
Clotilde’s favorite creative pursuits are building a solid project plan and coordinating the team to deliver beyond a client’s expectations. Specializing in Mechanical Engineering, Data Science and UX strategy, she approaches product design with a focus on technology, user centricity and business opportunities. From data analytics to Agile mobile development, she offers a wide area of expertise as an architect of digital transformation.
Before Loft, Clotilde spent 12 years working for Philips in the Netherlands. Prior to that she was at Accenture Interactive and Agusta Aerospace Corporation.
If she is not traveling the world, you might find her in her garden outside of Raleigh, NC, or baking with her two children.
Clotilde’s next level skill ... making sense of complex technical workflows and using Design Thinking to simplify them.
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