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...

In the dynamic world of design leadership, transitioning between managerial roles and individual contributor positions is not a hard pivot, but rather a pendulum swing that brings value and perspective to your career. Don't fear moving back and forth, and don't get stuck in a single lane.

This p...

Using words, scribbles, and pixels Farai has spent the last 14 years helping design and build products and teams in the UK, South Africa and Canada.

Today, he makes a living designing interactions and leading a team as a UX Manager at Shopify in Ottawa.

In South Africa, Farai designed banking a...

Thu 7th Nov 2024, 12:10 - 12:35 - Barbican Centre
There is no one path to design executive. Learn about Christina’s long and winding road to VP and how she has embraced every crisis to hit the tech sector - even as far back as the dot com bust of 2000 - to forge a fascinating and truly unique car...

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...

Leaders are facing changes today that can flatten creativity to a detriment: tools and culture are evolving as economic pressures continue, but the quest for making meaningful, beautiful work stays paramount.

In that quest, we have a duty to nurture what energises us creatively. Staying grounded...

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...

You are the problem

As designers we often find ourselves being frustrated and feeling unheard. The struggle to “get a seat at the table” seems to be widespread. Why is this? Is it simply that product people don’t listen and tech people don’t care about users? Or that business people think they k...

The value of design (that's more than just business)

Design has a seat at the table now, but what do you say? What do you stand up for? Are we really there just to make the business metric grow through experience efficiencies, or is the value of design to make the business stand for something ot...