Peter Merholz
Chief Humanist, Humanism at Scale
Peter Merholz has been active in digital design and product for 25 years, most notably in building Adaptive Path, and now a design executive and product leader. He co-wrote Org Design for Design Orgs (O’Reilly), the first book focused on the organizational, managerial, and operational challenges of building in-house design teams.
Rosenverse talks by Peter:
" Design roles are blurring or dead; super senior individual contributor roles are emerging as a new career path. "
The 2025 State of UX/Design Organizational Health
November 12, 2025
" Organizational change management requires as much care and effort as executing good research. "
A Genuine Conversation about the Future of UX Research
March 20, 2024
" UX research needs to consider functioning as our own critical, unbiased, independent pillar. "
How to make UX research leadership more effective [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 26, 2023
" If you start launching design systems without having got your culture in place, you’re basically just turning the design team into a factory. "
Keeping Design Weird
October 2, 2023
" You build trust by showing you understand what it takes to get something shipped and by knowing the subject matter. "
The Trials and Tribulations of Directors of UX
July 13, 2023
" It didn’t matter how good the design was nor how good the strategy was if the organization delivering the design wasn’t set up to do it well. "
The Mysterious Case of the Missing UX Career Path
August 25, 2022
" Without a shared purpose, a team is simply a collection of individuals. "
Design at Scale is People!
June 11, 2021
" Relying on process is not a proxy for quality, and divorcing process from content is a fatal enterprise mistake. "
Customer-Centered Design Organizations
June 8, 2017
