Alana Washington
Senior Design Manager, Uber Freight
Alana Washington is a design leader, strategist, and researcher with over a decade of experience in the field. She currently manages the Shipper Experience Design team at Uber Freight, is Chair of SF Design Week, and a curator for Rosenfeld's Design Ops Summit. Prior to Freight, she managed design teams at Capital One and GfK custom research; and worked in Organizational Effectiveness at HBO. She holds an MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from NYU.
Rosenverse talks by Alana:
" Today’s theme of the resilient design ops team of one lands this concept at the atomic level of ourselves as practitioners. "
Theme 1: Introduction and Provocation
January 8, 2024
" Service blueprinting was a deeply empathy-building activity because each role had to help another walk in their shoes. "
(Remote) Service Design: A Transformation Case Study
June 8, 2022
" You are all very excited about the future of design ops because you are charting the course together. "
Theme 3 Intro
October 1, 2021
" We want to prevent our community from the dehumanizing impulses often brought on by bureaucratic scaling. "
DesignOps Community Sensing Session
May 13, 2021
