Design Leadership Archives - UX Copenhagen https://uxcopenhagen.com/tag/design-leadership/ Denmark's most inspirational Human Experience event! Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:12:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://uxcopenhagen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-cropped-BG-logo-1-32x32.png Design Leadership Archives - UX Copenhagen https://uxcopenhagen.com/tag/design-leadership/ 32 32 Dan Maccarone https://uxcopenhagen.com/dan-maccarone/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:47:06 +0000 https://uxcopenhagen.com/?p=1306 The post Dan Maccarone appeared first on UX Copenhagen.

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Dan Maccarone speaking at UX Copenhagen 2023
 
The Efficacy of the Peripheral: Adventures in the Life of a Fractional CPO
 
As the profession of product design has evolved over the past couple decades, the best practices of product design and process have evolved quite a bit. And they continue to do so. Many large and burgeoning companies usually go one of two routes: hiring a full time person to run their product (often at the C- or VP-level) or they outsource product design to an agency where they become one of many clients, who can easily become yes-people for client requests. But there is a third option that gives you the best of both worlds: the fractional leader. This is happening outside of product as well – with CEOs, CTOs, and in marketing as well. So, why not product? In this talk, Dan Maccarone will explore the success he has seen in factional product leadership, the art of building multiple internal teams at once, and how having a head of product who’s able to keep a peripheral view of what’s going on outside your company can keep you from getting too mired in the weeds and able to leverage experience that you may not otherwise have been aware of.
 
For the past 25 years, Dan has been helping startups and corporations shape their online product strategy, including Foursquare, Stocktwits, Rent The Runway, The Skimm, Blade and The Block. His experience also includes television, music and print media, and he has worked with The New York Times, CNN, Deutsche Bank, GE, Booking.com, Saturday Night Live, Universal Music and The Wall Street Journal. One of his most noted projects was creating the original strategy and user experience for Hulu.
 
Dan is the CEO of the product design studio, Charming Robot, and was the co-founder the design agency Hard Candy Shell. He is the host of the podcast Story in a Bottle and the author of Audible Original book The Barstool MBA. Dan received his Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and his Bachelor of Arts from Colby College in English and Performing Arts.

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]]> Catherine Hills https://uxcopenhagen.com/catherine-hills/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:01:06 +0000 https://uxcopenhagen.com/?p=1458 The post Catherine Hills appeared first on UX Copenhagen.

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Catherine Hills speaking at UX Copenhagen 2023

The problematic intersection of UX design with organizational design: Is your organization ready and willing to change? 

In the field of UX design, we are often asked to do something, but that thing may have more potential effects than we can predict. How might we respond, or create credible recommendations, when the impact of what we are asked to deliver is beyond what was expected – or the reality of our findings are beyond organizational readiness for listening, receptiveness, or action?

UX is often strategic in its essence as a practice, and therefore UX requires organisational maturity around design, strategy and operations to be enabled. Particularly when we as designers identify key pain points, opportunities or moments that matter for our co-workers, partners, users and/or customers. When these identified needs and opportunities indicate that systemic change is required in the way we in these organisations deliver potential solutions or positive outcomes, this can have an effect that can be less domino and more butterfly. 

There are techniques, methods and tools designers can use to help  unpack potential impacts and effects in complex environments or within challenging conditions. However, to be endorsed in our activities as designers and to pursue them, we must first understand the complex and potentially problematic question: Is the organisation or people we serve and design for, receptive to change?

Key concepts that will be covered in this talk

  • Testing maturity – how influence and design maturity in orgs is interactive
  • How to create change readiness in the conversation around design
  • Ways to create engagement to help organisations be with you on the journey
  • Methods to utilise your discoveries and recommendations so key outcomes of the work are not lost or wasted
  • Approaches to take with your stakeholder partners 
  • How to build influence to provide mechanisms so that outcomes create actions that are suitable and timely
With this talk, designers will learn to navigate the challenges of UX and Organisational Design, and how to further engage and partner through their professional and stakeholder networks within these organisations to better harness and influence positive outcomes for those they design for and with, as well as the organisations they serve.  
 
Catherine Hills has been in design, research, UX, CX, strategy, product and service experience, engineering and change for over two decades. She has more than 15 years of experience leading teams in practice and management, and almost 7 years in delivering design education (including General Assembly, RMIT School of Design #1 in APAC, #15 in the world for Art and Design).
 
Her current positions are Director of Product Design at Pluralsight, Sessional Academic at RMIT University (UX Expertise), PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne (School of Engineering and IT – Information Systems, Design).
 

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]]> Rina Takikawa https://uxcopenhagen.com/rina-takikawa/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 08:51:41 +0000 https://uxcopenhagen.com/?p=1394 The post Rina Takikawa appeared first on UX Copenhagen.

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Rina Takikawa speaking at UX Copenhagen 2023
The invisible similarities ballet and design have in common
 
Product designer and Ballerina, Rina Takikawa will be speaking at UX Copenhagen 2023 about her career transition from classical ballet to technology. In this talk, she will also be sharing the invisible similarities ballet and design have in common, and how she navigates her design process through the lessons she has learnt as a ballerina.
 
Rina is a ballerina turned product designer, currently based in Los Angeles. She is one of the founding members at Mooch, a fintech startup in the crypto/defi space with a community of 450,000+ where she leads design and research. In the last 10 years before her career change into tech, she was training and dancing professionally as a ballerina— dancing around Singapore, the U.S, Japan, and Spain. Her notable honors from her ballet career include dancing on stages of the Barcelona Opera House and the Metropolitan Opera House, leading second senior prize at the 2017 U.S Ballet Competition, and working directly under world renowned dancers/directors. As a career changer herself, she loves to help empower other career changers whether that be helping craft their personal brand, and identifying their transferable skills. Rina’s story has been featured in press such as Business Insider and Built in, and she’s spoken at non-profits and institutions such as the University of Arizona, Triangirls UK, GirlGenius, CareerFoundry, and Ideate Labs. Currently outside of work, she is one of the 12 chosen mentors for a fellowship program, mentoring first generation WOC in college aspiring to work in tech.
 
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]]> Rachel Gogel https://uxcopenhagen.com/rachel-gogel/ Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:53:23 +0000 https://uxcopenhagen.com/?p=1285 The post Rachel Gogel appeared first on UX Copenhagen.

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Rachel Gogel speaking at UX Copenhagen 2023
Dear Boss, you need help.
 
Sending everyone home to work was a catalyst for people to reexamine not only how, when, and where they work, but why, resulting in deep, structural changes to employee expectations. But what drives engagement at work is the same factor now as it was pre-pandemic: an employee’s relationship with their manager. This is why Rachel Gogel believes that good people managers matter more now than ever before. Being forced into remote work exacerbated an underlying issue at many organizations, which is: Most don’t provide the necessary tools to foster great (or even good) people leaders.
 
With hybrid work models becoming the new norm — in which fully in-person and remote work are two ends of a fluid spectrum of options — the role of the “boss” is effectively evolving.
 
While most people associate “the future of work” with the rise of the entrepreneurial generation or the development of emerging “work-from-anywhere” models centered on employee wellness, we’ll explore the inevitable next wave of design leadership.
 
Throughout this talk, Rachel shares some of her research and key findings so that the people leaders of tomorrow can act boldly to reimagine an employee experience that is more purposeful, individualized, and mobile — and prepare them not just for post-pandemic “normalcy” but for the year 2030, when most companies will be decentralized, the majority of the workforce will be self-employed, and the project-based economy will be prevalent.
 
Rachel Gogel (she/her) is a Paris-born, San Francisco-based queer creative director and designer whose skills range from branding, strategy, and design management to art direction, editorial, and product design. She runs her own small consultancy as an independent creative culture officer where her approach is informed by experiences both in-house and agency side. 
 
Over the last fifteen years, Rachel has continued to use design as a tool for change — from launching story-driven initiatives at Departures and Godfrey Dadich Partners to building multidisciplinary teams at The New York Times’ award-winning T Brand, GQ, and Meta. In 2022, some of her main projects included supporting internal brand work at Airbnb, advising on Jeff Staple’s new magazine MYLES, and building a brand identity for Jacqueline Novogratz’s latest passion project, Anew. Outside of her studio practice, she is also the Women in Leadership & Design (WILD) Chair on the AIGA SF Board of Directors and an Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA) where she teaches classes called “Leadership by Design” and “Designing Your Career” for graduate students completing their Master’s in Interaction Design. 
 
As a passionate design leader and experienced people manager, Rachel believes in fostering inclusive spaces that unlock human potential.

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