The DesignOps Summit is for design leaders, managers, program managers, and practitioners who want to define, scale, and manage Design Operations.
DesignOps Summit 2018 Presentation Videos now available
You'll find links to the recordings of our main conference presentations—as well as to decks, tripnotes, and sketchnotes—available via our program page. Enjoy!
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DesignOps Summit 2018 Sketchnotes now available
Our official conference sketchnotes, lovingly created by MJ Broadbent, are now available from the DesignOps Summit 2018 program page (along with speaker decks and Natalie Hanson's tripnotes). Video recordings of speaker presentations aren't far off…
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DesignOps Summit 2018 Tripnotes now available
The decks are already there; now you can visit our program page for Natalie Hanson's excellent tripnotes! To come: sketchnotes and video recordings of the presentations.
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DesignOps Summit 2018 decks now available
#DesignOps18 is a wrap! If you attended, THANK YOU—especially for your feedback (and evaluations). If not, we hope you got a taste from following the buzz on social media; maybe you'll join us next year?…
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Main program now sold out—some workshop seats remain
As of a few minutes ago, the 2018 DesignOps Summit is really and truly sold out. Yes, even New Yorker tickets are gone now. More than twice as many people are attending as last year's…
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Now we really ARE selling out
Some weeks back, we were worried about selling out—but we figured out a clever way (we called them "New Yorker" tickets) to make more seats available. Now we're down to under forty tickets to go,…
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New workshop offering: Jason Mesut’s Profiling Designers for a Stronger Team
Were you too late to sign up for one of the Friday, November 9 workshops? Don't fret: Jason Mesut—who is already queued up to speak on the main conference program—has kindly agreed to extend his…
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Announcing the 2018 DesignOps Summit scholarship winners!
We're very pleased to announce our five scholarship winners! There were over 30 applications, and most were quite strong, so our judges really had their work cut out for them. After much deliberation, they’ve awarded…
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Good news and more good news
Good news: we've sold out of our regular tickets to the DesignOps Summit. (It's absolutely fantastic that so many people are interested in design and research operations!) And more good news: we've found a way…
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We’re nearly sold out
As of Tuesday September 11, 3pm EDT, there are only 20 tickets remaining for the DesignOps Summit. We're delighted to be nearly at capacity two months before the conference takes place! We also know how…
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Scholarships to attend the DesignOps Summit
High-quality conferences can be expensive—especially for those from underserved groups. So we're offering five scholarships to deserving candidates. Each scholarship includes a complimentary ticket to the two-day main conference and, if you're from outside the…
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Announcing our conference emcee!
Big news: the wonderfully electric Meredith Black (Head of Design Operations at Pinterest) just agreed to emcee this year's DesignOps Summit! If you attended last year's Summit, you'll likely remember Meredith's talk, Scaling Design Culture,…
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Early bird registration ends today
Planning to join us for the DesignOps Summit this November? Early bird rates end today (Tuesday, August 28) at 11:59pm EDT. Last chance to save up to US$350 on your ticket; register now!
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Another workshop sells out
Harry Max's Prioritization: Beyond Getting Things Done is now officially sold out, joining Kristin Skinner and Peter Merholz's Design Your Design Organization. While you can get on Harry's waitlist, you might consider snagging a seat…
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Get a discounted room at our official conference hotel
We've secured a limited number of discounted rooms at the Stewart Hotel (371 Seventh Avenue). You really won't find a more convenient location—it's just a five minute walk away from the Fashion Institute of Technology, our conference venue. Visit our Locations…
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New workshop added: Dave Malouf’s Introduction to Design Operations (November 9)
As we mentioned recently, one of our workshops has already sold out, and another soon will. So we've added a fifth day-long workshop to our November 9 schedule: Dave Malouf's Introduction to Design Operations. Dave has…
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Workshops already selling out
There are still almost two weeks to go before the DesignOps Summit's early bird registration deadline (August 28). But one of our workshops has already sold out: "Design Your Design Organization," taught by Peter Merholz…
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Preliminary program now live!
We're excited to share the DesignOps Summit 2018 preliminary program! We say "preliminary" because our sessions' titles and descriptions will get tuned between now and November. As with every Rosenfeld Media conference, we spend months…
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Lowest ticket price ends Tuesday July 17
We're hard at work on the 2018 DesignOps Summit program, and plan to begin unveiling it this week. But if you're sure you plan to attend this year, go ahead and register now. The sneak…
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What is DesignOps?
What the heck is Design Operations? The field is new and we're basically defining it as we invent. We very much see the process of developing a program as an exercise in definition—especially as we…
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Registration is now open!
We're thrilled to open registration for DesignOps Summit 2018! A few important notes: We're offering a highly discounted rate for employees of government, non-profit, and educational institutions. We're offering discounts for groups of three or…
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Who should speak at the next DesignOps Summit?
Thanks to your help, we've completed an initial round of user research and have come up with four themes around which we'll program this year's conference: THEME 1: Communicating the Value of DesignOps THEME 2:…
Read moreThese great organizations are helping us bring the 2018 DesignOps Summit to New York City
Our users drive the world’s economy. We help them drive it. For our users, success is all about understanding the world and making every millisecond count. Through user experience research and design, we accelerate our clients’ access to data and insights every day. We continually enhance and evolve the company’s pioneering software platform – the Bloomberg Terminal – through experience innovation spanning desktop, mobile, hardware and software.
Bloomberg
Intuitive, beautiful, user-centered design is key to the success of Google’s products. Our passionate, interdisciplinary UX specialists and designers work across platforms to create powerful visuals that highlight each of our product’s unique personalities. The team’s work touches billions while exemplifying one of Google’s core principles: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”
Google
Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We promote environments where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork leads to superior results. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.
Capital One
Goldman Sachs provides financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Its User Experience team is diverse, global, and cross-disciplinary, and takes deep dives into select problems, partnering with the business, clients, and technologists to make the tools it delivers powerful, competitive, and consumable.
Goldman Sachs
A focus on user outcomes. Restless reinvention. Diverse empowered teams. At IBM, we are building the largest design organization in the world with a mission to create a sustainable culture of design and design thinking empowered to solve our users’ problems at the speed and scale of the modern digital enterprise.
IBM
Whatever motivates and inspires you, we’re a community that helps you realize your definition of success. #InItTogether…
LinkedIn
Macmillan Learning improves lives through learning. Our legacy of excellence in education informs our approach to using user-centered design, learning science, and impact research to develop world-class content and pioneering products that are empathetic, highly effective, and drive improved outcomes. To learn more, please visit http://www.macmillanlearning.com.
Macmillan Learning
Entertainment, like friendship, is a fundamental human need; it changes how we feel and gives us common ground. Netflix is better entertainment at lower cost and greater scale than the world has ever seen. We want to entertain everyone, and make the world smile.
Netflix
PayPal’s mission is to democratize financial services, and PayPal’s Global Design organization takes that to heart as we create meaningful and cohesive end-to-end experiences through a deep understanding of our customers and through exceptional design.
PayPal
Verizon operates America’s most reliable wireless network, the nation’s premier all-fiber network, and delivers integrated solutions to businesses worldwide. The recent acquisition of New York-based design and strategy firm, Moment, has bolstered Verizon's in-house Customer Experience organization responsible for end-to-end experiences including in-store, online, mobile, and live customer service.
Verizon
At Asana, we're building a place where everything from the most immediate details to the big picture are organized. With Asana, each person knows what they should be doing and why. This clarity, transparency, and focus allows teams to collaborate with less friction and produce great results.
Asana
NomNom is a Research Ops platform used by top UX teams around the world. It helps you centralize, organize and collaborate on all your research data and insights easily. Scale your research activities and learn from customer faster with NomNom.
NomNom
Design Program Managers (DPMs) at Facebook are passionate connectors and problem solvers; focused on the operational success of both the product teams and programs that support those teams.
Facebook
Mailchimp is an always-on marketing platform for small businesses. We make innovative, beautiful products that empower those businesses to find more customers. The company started in 2001 as a side project. Today, Mailchimp serves millions of customers around the world, is still 100% founder-owned, and is highly profitable. We’re headquartered in Atlanta with additional offices in Brooklyn and Oakland.
MailChimp
Abstract believes that design shouldn't be hidden away in folders and proprietary file formats. The work should be accessible, the decisions captured, and the team able to work together confidently. Abstract’s design workflow management system provides a single place to version, manage, and collaborate on your design work.
Abstract
Handrail is a collaborative research tool that helps your team plan, collect, analyze, and share user research, all in one place. Save time, involve everyone, and stay organized with Handrail.
Handrail
InVision is the Digital Product Design platform that makes the world’s best customer experiences. We provide design tools and educational resources for teams to navigate every stage of the product design process, from ideation to development. 3.5M+ people use InVision to create repeatable and streamlined design workflows; rapidly design and prototype products before writing code, and collaborate across their organizations—incl. more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500.
Invision
MURAL is a visual workspace to help you design together. Teams synthesize research, brainstorm ideas and share solutions through online collaborative whiteboards. The MURAL experience is both playful and productive, helping organizations scale their design practice.
MURAL
Optimal Workshop is a user research platform that makes life easier for anyone trying to design things better. Their tree testing, card sorting, first-click, survey and qualitative research tools enable organisations, big and small, to test, benchmark and make evidence-based design decisions.
Optimal Workshop
RealtimeBoard is the leading visual collaboration platform helping cross-functional teams of designers, product managers and engineers ideate, design think, and collaborate to build some of the world’s most prolific products. Loved by nearly 2 million users from companies like Netflix, Salesforce, Airbnb, and Deloitte.
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