Design Leadership Summit 2022
2022-12-06..2022-12-07
Toronto, Canada
[Design Leadership Summit 2018, Design Leadership Summit 2019, Design Leadership Summit 2022, Design Leadership Summit 2024, Design Leadership Summit 2025 (Nov)]
who it's for
design leaders, design managers, design operations practitioners, product managers, accessibility specialists, diversity and inclusion leads
topics
mission control decision rituals; role proto-personas; design hiring templates; accessibility legible typefaces; design leadership career roadmap; measuring design business impact; designOps centralized calendar; permissioning model for UX; tarot and breathwork for ideation; generative AI for analytics; zero trust cybersecurity budgeting
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Leadership Lessons From The Apollo Program | Bob Baxley | 39m |
Kennedy’s Rice speech maps to practice: 17 minutes of communicate the punchline, urgent deadline and clear tradeoffs. Chris Kraft builds Mission Control with… | ||
| Designing Your Team Before You Hire | Jessa Parette | 48m |
Claims that hiring succeeds when teams are designed before requisitions are opened; methods actually used are role proto-personas, sliding non-binary variables… | ||
| Accessibility-Driven Design | Kate Kalcevich | 24m |
Design choices land on measurable tradeoffs: fonts and colors get picked for legibility and contrast for people with disabilities, so the site adopts Open Sans… | ||
| The Evolving Design Leader | Peter Merholz | 51m |
Claims a practical roadmap for advancing from manager to director to VP with concrete time splits (managers spend ~two‑thirds managing down, directors split… | ||
| Decision Making In A Time Of Uncertainty | Christina Goldschmidt | 50m |
Claim: unconventional subconscious techniques improve clarity and reduce anxiety for business decisions. Specific tools: tarot spreads, holotropic breath work… | ||
| Higher Expectations And More Opportunities | Chris Avore | 35m |
Argues that design must show causal impact not activity: measure decisions against business objectives, link a workshop to revenue or a 30% faster launch, and… | ||
| A Lyrical Approach To Design Leadership | Archana Thiagarajan | 34m |
Argues that music discipline informs concrete design practices and shows a repeatable outcome: team aligns around a modeled ecosystem, builds a composable data… | ||
| Getting Loud: How Bias Impacts Voice | Eiko Kawano | 24m |
Claims that the model minority myth silences Asian and Pacific Islander voices and that anti-Asian bias rose sharply during 2020 are supported with concrete… | ||
| Tech Trends 2023 | Brian Walker | 13m |
Seven concrete claims and hard numbers decide whether to watch Tech Trends 2023: Info‑Tech lists seven trends including metaverse where 63 percent say no 34… | ||
| DesignOps: The Stabilizing Force In Uncertain Times | Taylor Oliva | 35m |
Design Ops claims three levers that create a “stability practice”: centralized design events calendar that aggregates crits, workshops and birthdays; a Wiki… | ||
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