Jon Fukuda

" There’s no future without craft—craft is the foundation for all the operational work that follows. "

" Joe Mesman and Peria will talk about how AI can take design sprints beyond their traditional limits. "

" A large organization’s security protocols make AI adoption slower and more complex than in smaller groups. "

" If design ops only serves designers, it risks silos; instead it must apply design thinking across R&D and product teams - Patrizia. "

" Design organizations customers are their partner organizations, like engineering, product management, marketing, and the executive suite. "

" DP&M tools pull together necessary reference materials and design deliverables, showing how they relate to each other. "

" The relationship with AI is like having a gopher or minion — don’t give it the final decision. "

" Technology is reigning AI down on us across all industries, threatening our creativity and productivity. "

" No one wants to hear a story that makes them feel bad; you have to create a safe environment that offers hope. "

" This DP&M tool is not just another knowledge base, it’s a living database that supports managing relationships and parsing information into views tailored to user roles. "

" The next big thing will be knowledge management powered by new no-code and integrative tools. "

" Design ops dives deep into a broad spectrum of skills: team dynamics, cross-functional collaboration, learning and development, and more. "

" There’s a lot of work to do aligning design systems so designers, engineers, and business analysts speak the same language. "