Design Leadership Summit 2019
2019-11-17..2019-11-19
Toronto, Canada
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| State of Design Leadership | Jasmine Friedl, Tanner Christensen, Lisa Platt, Pradeep Nayar, Iain McConchie | 01h 03m |
Claims land in specifics not slogans: teams run experiments and write hypotheses to de‑risk the product, user research cuts project lists from 500 apps to 30… | ||
| Leading Growth Driven Design | Chetana Deorah | 38m |
A growth design team runs a seven-week in-market research blitz and tests hypotheses across markets rather than A/Bing button colors: seven-week in-market… | ||
| Amplifying Design Value | Dave Malouf | 35m |
Argues that design is an amplifier and gives concrete operational prescriptions: dual-track discovery/delivery with separate cadences, instrumentation via… | ||
| The Four Archetypes of the Complete Design Leader | Peter Merholz | 51m |
Framework claims that design leaders must perform four roles: Coach, Diplomat, Champion, Architect. Concrete practices include setting a charter, defining… | ||
| Platform Design & Content Strategy | Elizabeth McGuane | 19m |
Argues that content strategy produces concept clarity by doing research, building a shared concept model, and publishing a glossary so teams and customers… | ||
| Using Stories to Lead Product Teams | Davis Neable | 16m |
Claim: telling one concrete onboarding story about a caller asking about rehab clinic at Rosewood flips colleagues from abstract specs to urgency, engages the… | ||
| Innovating from Within | Hector Crespo | 45m |
Concrete metrics and structures decide: a 18‑month run produces 15 ventures launched, about 15 in development and 4 exits; the program targets 5 million new… | ||
| Beyond the UX Tipping Point | Jared Spool | 01h 14m |
Explains how organizations move from dark ages to infused UX design with concrete milestones: centralized UX as a stepping stone, embedded designers reporting… | ||
| Operationalizing Design from the Ground Up | Anne Purves | 24m |
Practical tactics for design ops surface: create a team charter as a one‑page elevator pitch, run a pre-mortem to surface risks before work starts, hold a… | ||
| Scaling User Research | Jen Cardello | 46m |
A playbook scales user research across a 400+ scrum team agile enterprise by redesigning org shape into pods, creating an insights agenda, and running a… | ||
| Designing for Trust | Michael Chanover | 24m |
Claim: the same concrete practices that build product trust also build trust inside teams; measurable moves beat platitudes. Details include a teacher-facing… | ||
| Scaling Design | Peter Merholz, Anne Purves, Anne Thibodeau | 01h 06m |
Panel gives concrete signals: teams doubled from ~50 to 100 designers, an enterprise UX org hits ~350 people, and UX ops grows 0→6 this year. Practical… | ||
| Evolving an In-House Design Practice | Pradeep Nayar | 42m |
Ten concrete lessons: start as a service then push to be an advisor and partner, use the double diamond to pull teams upstream, and rename hypotheses as… | ||
| Learning Loop in Design | Tareq Ismail | 32m |
Claims a reproducible seven‑step learning loop and shows it working: uses Amplitude analytics to choose research participants, weekly cross-functional brain… | ||
| Responsible Design | Margaret Stewart | 36m |
Describes concrete changes and experiments at Facebook: testing removing like counts (A/B tests) to reduce envy, rolling out the "Why am I seeing this ad"… | ||
| Building and Cultivating Diverse Design Teams | Jenna Bilotta | 32m |
Claims that diversity succeeds here are concrete: design goes from ~8% to >50% women in five years and Dropbox design shows 57 women in senior leadership after… | ||
| Fostering Cross Functional Collaboration | Dana Bright, Danielle Lindsay, Dan Winterberg | 36m |
Research uses GoPros and sketching in field trips to capture real behavior; insights (600+ notes) get synthesized into problems ranked by impact versus effort… | ||
| Journey from Design Afterthought to Design First | Dan Winterberg | 28m |
Framework shows three concrete stages: shore up a coherent design team, embed with PMs and engineers, then influence exec strategy. Tactics include hire for… | ||
| Shaping Vision at Uber | Dana Bright, Danielle Lindsay | 34m |
Team does structured field research and builds measurable fixes: research trips to Mexico City Amsterdam and LA plus intercepts, ride‑alongs and roundtables… | ||
| Design Leadership Summit 2019 | 02m | |
Argues for treating design as a mission to change lives not just ship interfaces, with a shift from blaming failures to focus on learning not failure… | ||
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