Higher Expectations And More Opportunities
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Argues that design must show causal impact not activity: measure decisions against business objectives, link a workshop to revenue or a 30% faster launch, and track team health across growth plans. Recommends concrete tools — design studios with engineering and senior stakeholders, a product-experiment framework for ambiguity, and metrics that avoid UX theatre — and reports running a 110-person org scale, using experiments to reveal second‑ and third‑order value.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Talk overview
- 1:45Design leadership context
- 2:48Economic turbulence
- 4:54Turbulence creates opportunities
- 6:18Articulating design value
- 7:22Measuring impact
- 9:51Low maturity in design
- 11:16Strategic partnerships
- 13:22Naive realism in design
- 15:49Leading through ambiguity
- 18:15Experimentation frameworks
- 20:40Communicating ambiguity
- 22:47Ethical standards
- 24:09Practical steps
- 25:31Q&A
