How does biology affect UX design? Lou talks with Alëna Iouguina, Senior Lead of Systems Research at Shopify, about how understanding the way the human brain works is one of the best things you can do to bolster your user research.

Follow Alëna Iouguina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/biologytodesign

Joins us at the 2018 DesignOps Summit: https://designopssummit.com

How do you turn small design tweaks into waves of change? Lou chats with Hana Nagel, Lead UX Researcher at SAP, about how small, sustainable changes are the key to making lasting changes in your design organization.

Hana’s Interesting Person: Rana Chakrabarti https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranachakrabarti/

Follow Hana Nagel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Miss_Hanie

Joins us at the 2018 DesignOps Summit: https://designopssummit.com

If you want to make sustainable change, you have to dive deeper into the organization. Leisa Reichelt, opening keynote speaker at #DesignOps Summit 2018, shares how she built and lead user research teams for the Australian and UK governments and how she’s continuing her work at Atlassian as Head of Research and Insights.

How do you build an enterprise design organization from the top down, and turn design thinking into design doing? Lou chats with Doug Powell, Design Principal and Program Director of Education & Activation at IBM, about the challenges of bringing design ideas to life within a global organization. He also gives a sneak peek of his upcoming keynote talk at the 2018 Design Ops Summit.

Follow Doug Powell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/douglaspowell1

Joins us at the 2018 DesignOps Summit: https://designopssummit.com

What does sociology and the study of technology have to do with DesignOps? Everything! Lou sits down with Jacqui Frey, Director of Design Operations at MailChimp, to discuss her upcoming talk at the 2018 DesignOps Summit and why studying technology’s interconnectedness relates to all aspects of DesignOps.

Reading recommendations from Jacqui: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Joins us at the 2019 DesignOps Summit: https://designopssummit.com

How do you build an ontology? Lou talks with Carol Smith, about the challenges of developing an artificial intelligence ontology, and how information architects can and must play a role in technologies that use artificial intelligence.

Follow Carol Smith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carologic

Reading recommendations: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/designing-agentive-technology/

Lou talks with Carl Smith, Owner at Bureau of Digital, about the challenges of curating the right content to make design and UX conferences successful for both the owners and the attendees.

Connect with the Bureau of Digital’s community: https://bureauofdigital.com

Follow Carl Smith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlsmith

Join us at our second DesignOps Summit this November: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2018/

Engineers are very familiar with the term technical debt—but what about design debt? Lou talks with Audrey Crane, Partner at DesignMap, about why, if you’re always learning, design debt is a good and necessary thing.

Follow Audrey Crane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/audcrane

Joins us at the 2018 DesignOps Summit: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2018

How can startups employ good design practices from the beginning? Lou talks with Irene Au, Design Partner at Khosla Ventures, about her work with setting up companies with robust design practices, and why user research is an investment every company should make.

Irene’s Reading Recommendation:

https://www.subtraction.com/2018/04/02/in-defense-of-design-thinking-which-is-terrible/

Follow Irene Au on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ireneau

Join us at our second DesignOps Summit this November: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2018/

What does it really take for an organization to embrace UX design as the foundation of creating products? Lou talks with UX guru and co-founder of the UX design school Center Centre Jared Spool about the paths organizations take to reach the UX tipping point.

Follow Jared Spool on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmspool

Get your ticket for our virtual conference, The Business Case for Design: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/business-case-for-design/