Bob Baxley

SVP, Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot

Bob Baxley is a designer, advisor, mentor, and advocate that has built, managed, and led teams at some of Silicon Valley’s most notable companies. With a career spanning three decades, Bob’s work at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, and elsewhere has touched hundreds of millions users around the world through search, social media, e-commerce, fintech, and productivity apps. Currently, Bob advocates for programs and organizations that are helping to recruit and inspire the next generation of designers.

Rosenverse talks by Bob:

" We’re moving from wanting to see the table to having an actual place at it. "

Theme 4: Intro

January 8, 2024

" The journey metaphor is better than the sprint because transformation doesn’t have a finishing point. "

Theme 4: Discussion

January 8, 2024

" Culture and process come first; they attract people interested in that mindset, not the other way around. "

Leading with Design Operations Past and Present

December 19, 2019

Rosenverse People Everyone

Paul Kahn

Information Designer and Author, Northeastern University

Ha Phan

Writer, Storyteller, Technologist

Uday Gajendar

UX Design Leader

Sarah B. Nelson

Founder, Chief Architect at Architects of the Future

Paz Perez

AI Designer

Robin Cannon

VP of Product at Knapsack

Jeffrey Zeldman

Executive Creative Director at Automattic

Patrick Neeman

Sr. Principal UX Designer at Workday

Julia Barham

Senior Director of Product Management, Author of The Product Management Playbook

Clayton Johnson

Product Executive and Transformation Leader

Peter Van Dijck

Head of Product and Technology, Helpful Intelligence Co.

Mary Aviles

UX Research Expert at Allstate

Stefanie Hutka

Founder & Head of Design Research at Sendfull, Author of What Your Machines Should Do

Jon Fukuda

Co-founder, Limina.co

Louis Rosenfeld

Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Abby Covert

Abby Covert, Chief Sensemaker, The Sensemakers Club

Jemma Ahmed

Advancing Research and Shift UX Curator

Tristin Oldani

Designer, Strategist, and Creative Technologist

Feyikemi Akinwolemiwa

Research and Design Manager, National Grid

Daniel Gloyd

Independent Design & Research Consultant

Rachel Garb

Retired UX Leader

Anne Cantera

Founder, Elementyl Intelligence and Voiceofai.io

Julia Cowing

User Researcher & Research Ops Manager

Robin Beers

Founder, Ubuntu Culture Company

Greg Baker

Chief Strategy Officer, DesignMap

Joe Elmendorf

Creator of Shitty Maps and Principal of Maps and Mirror

Santiago Bustelo

Director, Kambrica

Catt Small

Staff Product Designer at Dropbox and Author of The Staff Designer

George Aye

Co-Founder and Director of Innovation, Greater Good Studio

Angelos Arnis

Co-founder / Strategic Designer, Joint Frontiers

Benjamin Jackson

Founder, Offtrail

Ben Blumenrose

Managing Partner, Designer Fund

Kritika Sony

UX Designer, PromptPath AI

Paul Bakaus

CEO and Founder, Renaissance Geek, Inc.

Adekunle Oduye

Independent UX Engineer

Snehal Pendharkar

Vice President Experience Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Amelia Wattenberger

Developer, Designer, and Prototyper

Anil Dash

Principal and Co-Founder, antitech

Elyse Holladay

Staff Design Engineer, Color Health

Christian Crumlish

Author of Product Management for UX People

Changying (Z) Zheng

Sr. Director, Product Experience Operations, Deel

David Siren Eisner

VP of Product Design at Datadog and Founder of CraftAmplify, Author of Product Design Engineering

Rikki Teeters

Sr. UX Designer, Amazon

Erika Flowers

Principal Service Designer, Author, Facilitator

Allan Lowson

Head of Experience Design and Research, Arity

Paul Ford

Co-Founder, Aboard

Joy KendiMwiti

Senior Creative Lead, Dalberg Design

Claire Dhoosche

Senior DesignOps Manager, Criteo

Vanessa Varin

Sr. Design Program Manager, Amazon

Josh Clark

Principal of Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design