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Navigating Innovation with Integrity
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 • DesignOps 2024
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Navigating Innovation with Integrity
Speakers: Changying (Z) Zheng
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Summary

As we delve into the exciting and ever-evolving world of DesignOps, where innovation meets responsibility. In this talk, we’ll explore how DesignOps is redefining collaboration and impact at the intersection of people, frameworks, tooling, and governance. As we push the boundaries of what's possible, especially with AI, we’ll also examine our critical role in ensuring that these advancements enhance, rather than diminish, the human touch in our work. Discover how, as both pioneers and stewards, we can lead with curiosity, govern with integrity, and shape the future of design in transformative ways.

Key Insights

  • Design ops innovation thrives on experimentation due to lack of predefined frameworks.

  • Integrating human elements like happiness into success metrics humanizes design ops.

  • Frequent iteration of design ops career ladders shows evolving understanding and commitment.

  • Transparency and accountability build design maturity within organizations.

  • Small design ops teams rely heavily on automation and AI to improve efficiency.

  • Immediate disabling of AI features in design tools reflects data privacy and governance concerns.

  • Design ops practitioners play a critical role in governing safe and ethical AI use.

  • AI is transitioning in design ops from a tool to an intelligent collaborator.

  • There is tension between allowing AI to ‘explore and make mistakes’ and business constraints.

  • Effective AI collaboration requires nurturing akin to parenting, rather than strict control.

Notable Quotes

"We innovate every day on how we work together, how we get work done, and how we create impact."

"Experimentation is an invitation to innovate."

"We innovate by adding the people element to metrics and reports, measuring happiness as success."

"Our approach to career ladders is iterative—we revised three times in four years."

"We bring in transparency and accountability to design—this is innovation with integrity."

"When Dylan introduced AI in Figma, I immediately turned off the AI feature company-wide."

"It is overly simple to say designers are scared of AI; the real choice is governance, not fear."

"Once we treat AI as intelligence, we face questions on trust, reliability, and collaboration."

"Can we train AI as we work with children—guide, allow to explore, make mistakes, and learn?"

"We are pioneers, setting standards and shaping the future of design and design operations."

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