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Watch Dave Malouf’s “DesignOps: Getting your team to great through operations”

DesignOps when applied correctly and designed intentionally will improve the overall quality of your team’s designs. Great operations focuses on making designing quality the focus of your team. So, it is time to getting your team to great through DesignOps […]

In this keynote at IxDA‘s ILA 2018, Dave Malouf talks about how designers know their craft, their methods and their process. What design leaders now need to do is focus on how design teams operate. From how to hire to how to work with stakeholders, DesignOps when applied correctly and designed intentionally will improve the overall quality of your team’s designs. Great operations focuses on making designing quality the focus of your team. Increasing & optimising collaboration, coordination, research impact, etc. So, it is time to getting your team to great through DesignOps!

Getting your team to great through DesignOps

About Dave Malouf

Dave is an interaction designer with close to 20 years experience designing at the cross-roads of technology, people and business. Currently, Dave is working on a new startup, called Peer Loft.

Dave’s zeal for studio work environment is also the focus of his teaching and consulting work that he is doing while Peer Loft is getting off the ground. As Dave Malouf Design, Dave helps organizations create the right culture, space, and skills to take their technology design needs to the next level. Dave is also one of the primary founders and the first Vice President of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

Source: Interaction Latin America 2018

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP, where he leads the design vision for the entire Human Capital Management product line, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. Itamar has also served as a juror for prestigious design competitions and lectured on design topics at universities worldwide.

During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

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