Looking into the Future of Design and DesignOps

Design and DesignOps continue to evolve rapidly, and many of the exciting contributions come from the very people that are part of this community!

Two things are perfectly clear when we look forward: designers will work with developers more than they ever have before, and AI will impact our discipline in some form or another.

Jamie Young of Microsoft and Siraaj Petersen from Takeaway.com will provide their point of view on these topics and answer all of your questions!

Talk #1: How Design Operations helped us change our perception of the designer's role in building Developer Tools at Microsoft
Jamie Young, Principal Group Design Manager at Microsoft

In building a DesignOps discipline for a Developer Division, we realised that building toolkits and plugins wouldn't be enough. We need to bring the rest of the Design team along on the journey, having them pivot on how they understood their role in building products.

Talk #2 AI in the workplace and its impact on the designer of the future -
Siraaj Petersen, Digital Design Lead at Takeaway.com

The robotic revolution has started: Self-driving cars, chatbots, and delivery drones are no longer the stuff of science fiction: But what about the designer? How might robots, AI and automation affect creation, operations and production in the long run?