Design Leadership Summit 2025 (Nov)
2025-11-17..2025-11-19
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, product designers, ux researchers, design operations leads, design systems engineers, design engineers, product managers
topics
instrumented design systems as product; federated research org playbook; Jobs-to-Be-Done job maps; LLM-powered rapid prototypes; AI in performance reviews; voice AI with ASR and NLP; generative-shopping vision match; two-week design sprints with feasibility; designer-owned front-end commits; research intake under one week; three-score CX metrics program; onboarding and labor-illusion UX
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| From Vision to Value: Driving Quality and Follow-Through at Scale | Joann Wu | 31m |
Claims concrete outcomes: 8.8 million drivers and couriers and serving 175 million monthly active users across 70 countries, with 11 billion trips in 2024… | ||
| AI, Anxiety, and Actual Impact | Chris Avore | 30m |
Claims concrete steps: turn executive hype into a roadmap, add measurable success criteria, and stop vague promises. Teams adopt specific tools—Figma… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Unraveling AI & Design | Bob Baxley, Jessa Parette, Alice Quan, Sebastian Speier | 43m |
Panelists give concrete signals: a shipped product — Comet mobile browser releasing on Android — and teams where designers push React PRs instead of only using… | ||
| Designing with No Interface: Leading UX in the Age of Invisible AI | Jessa Parette | 25m |
Byteby powers voice AI across Pizza Hut KFC Taco Bell and The Habit in over 55,000 restaurants across 100 countries and tests drive‑thru systems using ASR NLP… | ||
| Deliver Undeniable Impact: Establishing a High-Value UX Research Practice | Jen Cardello | 42m |
Lays out a playbook: assess the “swamp,” centralize a federated research org, and ship a clear research framework that maps to PDLC plus standardized intake… | ||
| AI Design for Good: Leading with Vision & Humanity in the Age of Intelligent Machines | Alice Quan | 33m |
Claims include a patented generative-shopping MVP called vision match (tested qualitatively and quantitatively with Gen Z in three countries and launched to… | ||
| Beyond Pixels: The Impact Past Design | Lenny Laurier, Armin Tabrizi | 29m |
Lays out four craft amplifiers—business acumen, data fluency, tech acumen, stakeholder management—and gives concrete practices: run two-week design sprints… | ||
| Design as Organizational Capability | Jess Greco | 31m |
Argues for treating design as infrastructure for decisioning and shows concrete results: a consolidated design system instrumented as a product… | ||
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