Webinars
Design Leadership

Strategies for Building A Resilient DesignOps Practice
Adam Fry-Pierce · Chief of Staff, UX Leadership at Google
Adam invited two other experts from DesignOps Assembly to discuss strategies that drive successful design operations teams and make design processes more efficient.
What you will learn
- Pinpoint the real needs of design teams.
- Rightsize the DesignOps practices.
- Identify and establish critical cross-functional partnerships.
- Measure and Impact: How to tell a story about ROI of DesignOps.
- Cost centers and revenue generators – metrics in our sphere of control.
- Length
- 1:00
- Organized by
- UXPin

DesignOps Layers of Impact | Design Value Conference
Maggie Dieringer · Design Operations Lead at Uber Eats
There are many factors within an organization that influence how Design Operations functions. From team size, to Design leadership partnership, to maturity of the team, and everything in between. Having helped build a function from the ground up and seen it grow and fluctuate over the last four years, I’ll walk you through my learnings from working on the ground to zooming out and becoming increasingly strategic.
What you will learn
- What are DPM trajectory opportunities
- Tactical ways to increase DPM influence on a team
- How leadership partnership can impact and support your Design Ops team
- Length
- 00:35
- Organized by
- UXPin

A Path to Proving DesignOps and Business Impact | Design Value Conference
Salomé Mortazavi · Director of DesignOps at SiriusXM
It's said 80% of value comes from 20% of the effort. As a DesignOps practitioner, how can you maximize your value and efficiency? In this talk, Salome Mortazavi will give an overview of how she leverages the Design Maturity Index to hyper focus DesignOps efforts to scale the Design team’s impact on business.
What you will learn
- How to use a tangible framework to focus Design Operations' efforts
- How to create and assess DesignOps value
- How DesignOps looks like in practice
- Length
- 00:35
- Organized by
- UXPin

DesignOps 2.0 – Scaling Design | Design Value Conference
Erica Rider · Sr Manager UX at PayPal
Scaling design is not about throwing more designers at the problem. Scaling design effectively is about operationalizing design, aligning closer with the principles of DevOps. How do we enable product teams to successfully deliver useful and usable products to their customers? This is an evolution that they call DesignOps2.0. Nearly everything a product team deals with impacts UX. Traditional development issues like availability and latency have a significant impact the user’s experience.
What you will learn
- How to set up tools and environment that empowers teams to deliver useful and usable products
- How to gain a common understanding with product teams around what impacts UX and who's responsible
- How to hold engineering and product teams accountable for delivering a good user experience
- Length
- 00:40
- Organized by
- UXPin

How To Design a Plane While Flying It | Design Value Conference
Omkar Chandgadkar · Sr UX Designer at Amazon
Sometimes, design programs get stuck in the rut of either shipping low impact tactical features or ideating on big picture vision that doesn’t ship. This presentation can help design leaders building new teams or leaders without design ops support plan design intake and iteratively elevate design impact. This talk will explain how to do so by reframing UX design as a “product offering” instead of a “process” to facilitate intake and planning.
What you will learn
- How to ensure that design teams support the organization both tactically and strategically
- How to develop a healthy design project intake mechanism and define scope for projects
- How design can embed itself into organization’s methodologies and influence product direction
- Length
- 00: 30
- Organized by
- UXPin

Holistic Design Operations
Dave Malouf · Director of Design Operations
Dave Malouf teaches you how to transform design operations, and build a bridge between design, development, and product teams in a way that helps designers create valuable work.
What you will learn
- How holistic design raises design’s value.
- How DesignOps makes design integral part of the organization.
- How to create your own impact instead of following product teams’ rules.
- Length
- 1:00
- Organized by
- UXPin

Measuring DesignOps’ Impact
Patrizia Bertini · Associate Director of Design Operations
See how to quantify and maximize DesignOps' impact. Learn more about scaling your design teams from Patrizia Bertini, Associate Design Operations Director at Babylon.
What you will learn
- Why DesignOps drives business impact.
- Ways to identify the areas of DesignOps’ influence.
- How to assess what should be improved.
- Methods to measure the impact of DesignOps on design teams and your organization.
- Length
- 1:00
- Organized by
- UXPin

Scale design efficiently with DesignOps2.0
Erica Rider · Developer Tools UX Design Lead at PayPal
Watch our webinar in which we shine a light on the evolution of DesignOps2.0. Discover how to transform your design process and empower your team with an end-to-end product development lifecycle.
What you will learn
- Transform your organization from a development-driven organization to a design-driven one.
- Optimize your design processes and facilitate design quality through smooth processes.
- Connect design and operations by sharing and expanding design intelligence.
- Length
- 1:00
- Organized by
- UXPin

The 3 Cs of Design: Charters, Critique, and Culture
Russ Unger · Experience Design Director, 18F (U.S. Government)
Design leadership lessons learned the hard way.
What you will learn
- How to align large design teams to meet common goals
- How to build a sustainable design culture
- How to run design critiques at scale
- Length
- 1:10h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Three’s a party: How product, engineering, and design work together at scale
Davis Neable · UX Team Lead at Shopify Plus
See how Shopify structures its UX, development, and product teams for collaboration and efficiency.
What you will learn
- How to change your collaboration model for PM, engineering, and design as teams grow
- How to define responsibilities, cadence, and activities across every layer of a product organization
- How Shopify tackles multi-disciplinary collaboration across product teams
- Length
- 1:06h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Hiring and Leading Teams at Linkedin for Large-Scale Redesign
Amy Parnell · VP, Experience Design at Linkedin
An in-depth case study years in the making.
What you will learn
- How to lead large-scale redesign projects
- How to recruit and interview designers
- Length
- 1:10h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Design Transformation at Autodesk
Maria Giudice · VP of Experience Design at Autodesk
A case study exploring the spread of design culture at Autodesk.
What you will learn
- How Autodesk shifted from being tech-focused to customer-focused
- How to build a strong design culture at your own company
- How to improve design thinking adoption across offices
- Length
- 1:02h
- Organized by
- UXPin

From 6 to 126 in four years: The story behind scaling Atlassian design
Alastair Simpson · Head of Design, Confluence, Stride and Platform at Atlassian
A case study of scaling UX in the enterprise.
What you will learn
- How to lead design teams through periods of rapid growth
- How to change design processes, build design culture, and scale teams over time
- How to engage engineering and product teams to create a customer-focused organization
- Length
- 1:04h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Agile UX & Product Development: Open Q&A Session
Peter Merholz · VP Design at Snagajob
An open Q&A session.
What you will learn
- The most pressing challenges faced by Agile product teams today.
- The emerging themes of Agile UX for 2017 and beyond.
- Effective solutions for overcoming the hurdles of Agile UX.
- Length
- 1:08h
- Speakers
- Peter Merholz, Marcin Treder, Sunita Reddy
- Organized by
- UXPin

Lean Experiments for Agile Teams
Alissa Briggs · Head of Design at Plangrid
Train your team to run the right product experiments.
What you will learn
- How to solve product problems and uncover UX opportunities
- How to plan and track your experiments
- How to supplement qualitative product feedback with quantitative data
- Length
- 1:01h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Mission-Based Experience Strategy
Ben Judy · Design Manager at Saxony Partners
See how to create a holistic UX strategy for enterprise products and organizations.
What you will learn
- How to create a clear UX strategy with teams across silos
- How to resource and plan tactics based on UX strategy
- How to track progress against your mission-based strategy
- How to delegate UX missions to designers
- Length
- 1:03h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Crossing the Culture Chasm: How Google and Nutanix Became Design-First Enterprises
Irene Au · Design Partner at Khosla Ventures
See how to grow design culture and maturity with a top-down approach.
What you will learn
- How to influence executives and CEOs to drive design programs
- How to champion design across teams and disciplines
- How to build a successful enterprise design practice
- Length
- 1:16h
- Speakers
- Irene Au, Satish Ramachandran
- Organized by
- UXPin

Scaling UX in Organizations
Jason Culbertson · Design Director at Airbnb
Learn a 4-step framework for scaling UX.
What you will learn
- How to scale your UX team as companies grow.
- How to adapt UX processes as team size increases.
- How to create consistent product quality between cross-functional teams.
- Length
- 1:00h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Spreading Design Thinking in Organizations
Julie Baher · Sr. UX Director at Illumina
Learn how to build design culture based off a 5-year case study.
What you will learn
- How to build a culture of design thinking.
- Useful activities for improving design maturity.
- How Citrix developed design skills for 3000+ employees.
- Length
- 1:20h
- Organized by
- UXPin

Building & Sustaining Successful UX Teams
Satyam Kantamneni · Cofounder and CXO at UX Reactor
Learn how to grow, sustain, and govern high-performing UX teams.
What you will learn
- When to hire generalists vs. specialists.
- How to drive business outcomes from day 1.
- How to evaluate design culture as you build it.
- How to build a long-term governance framework.
- Length
- 1:30h
- Organized by
- UXPin
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