Dan Willis
Consultant, U.S. Digital Service
Dan Willis is a designer and consultant helping the U.S. Digital Service fix the federal government one project at a time. He led a major DesignOps effort at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and is currently helping FEMA overhaul its approach for creating enterprise software. Willis led design teams at PBS, Marriott and The Washington Post and his consulting clients have included Volkswagen, the Royal Bank of Canada and the American Museum of Natural History. A frequent speaker at international, national and local UX-related conferences, he is the co-author and illustrator of Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation.
Rosenverse talks by Dan:
" Melinda Belcher has had great success first as an outside consultant and then as an inside enterprise manager. "
Theme 3: Intro
January 8, 2024
" Make an incredible experience credible — that was the organizational directive to UX. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 3, 2019
" Collective consciousness and alignment is a game of patience; conflict and friction often precede progress. "
Panel Discussion: Integrating DesignOps
November 7, 2018
" The best time to build design operations is when you’re structuring the whole organization—but that’s rare and mostly startups. "
Filling the Void
November 7, 2018
" If you ever feel like you can't do this job and you're in over your head, it's totally normal. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 14, 2018
" Normally you go into a talk and they build just like a story: a little bit of information, more information, more information, here’s my point, and then they’re out. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 8, 2017
" Know-it-alls can’t know what they don’t know and can’t have it both ways. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 8, 2016
" I should have been a human first and a designer second. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
May 13, 2015
