At ShinyConf 2025, I had the joy of speaking to an audience of nearly 800 about what it means to design user-centric Shiny apps through thoughtful client conversations, intentional UI/UX strategy, and Gherkin-style user stories. In this post, I’m sharing a few takeaways from that warmly received session, along with free, customizable templates to help you bring a more human-centered approach to your own data products.

Jasmine Daly and Beni Altmann are presenting a talk on The CRAN Cookbook: Improving the Skills of R Package Maintainers at the LatinR Conference. This conference features talks and tutorials about the use of R in R&D across various domains to virtual audiences on November 18-22, 2024.

Jasmine Daly gave an engaging talk at the 4th Annual Data Mishaps Night virtually to nearly 400 data folks in the audience.