As Dropbox enters its 2nd year of working Virtual First, VP of Design, Alastair Simpson, invites you for an exclusive look into lessons learned as he speaks to the challenges involved in redesigning the way we work.

In this talk Alastair shares how, by treating the future of work as a design pro...

Design teams are rife with burnout, low morale and inefficiencies. These unhealthy and unsustainable practices lead to negative cultures and high turnover. From hiring and setting up your team to how you handle conflict, running a design team is a marathon, not a sprint. In this talk, Eric discus...

As the VP of Design, Digital Media at Adobe, Eric Snowden manages a multidisciplinary team of designers responsible for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud applications and services. In the more than eight years Eric has been with Adobe, he has gone from leading design for Creative Cloud Mobile to ...

Ovetta Sampson is a tech industry professional who strives to amplify the beauty of humanity with design while avoiding practices that exploit its fragility. She has more than a decade of experience, working in multiple industries to innovate with various technologies including machine learning a...

Increasingly, successful leaders are evolving from traditional managers to become catalysts for innovation - facilitating environments where employees can truly thrive and creating the connection between positive leadership behaviours and business outcomes.

Tey delves into the transformative for...

What does it mean to be a human-centred design leader in the midst of human-created climate change? What can we do in our own companies and teams, and as a profession, to help? How might we apply our unique strengths and resources, such as design process, craft, and empathy, to this multi-faceted...

The superpower of designers is to imagine and create potential futures. Designers add most value when they push boundaries not just pixels. However, during times of change, there is increased business pressure for certainty. As a result, ideas become smaller and more predictable. Optimisation sta...

Imagine the year 2065: technologies think faster than we can process, design is invisible but omnipresent, and leadership isn’t defined by titles but by trust. In this deeply reflective talk, Timothy Bardlavens invites us to consider not only what the future demands of leaders but also what it de...

Over the years designers have made big claims about the power of design to better the world. However, we’ve primarily made companies more profitable and optimised ad-clicking. Not all hope is lost. There are places where design really can save lives and improve the world, but you’re going to have...