Bria Alexander

" AI is not really doing anything better than humans yet; it’s just faster and more efficient - Bria. "

" If you want to invite a friend or colleague, the sponsor sessions are free and awesome to attend. "

" We are going to have a very cherry day. You get it? Because I’m wearing cherry earrings. "

" If you want to make this conference better for you, just let us know in Slack — we want you to have a positive experience. "

" AI is a great tool for drafting and summarizing, but you have to keep your unique voice because that’s what differentiates you. "

" Resilience means the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties or toughness. "

" We need standardized role definitions, not everyone is a manager just because they manage initiatives - Peter Bosma. "

" Everyone's sitting on the aisle, your right, my left — you gotta scoot over like two seats. "

" Sponsors believe in advancing research, and we wouldn’t be here without them. "

" Sponsor sessions may require registration by email to prevent Zoom bombings and protect session integrity. "

" There is no overlap between the main program sessions and sponsor sessions. "

" If you have a question for one of the speakers, put it in the specific thread associated with the talk or it will get lost. "

" Sponsors bring so much color and so much light into the community. "

" All three themes and all speakers you’ll hear came together through inclusive collaboration and insightful perspectives. "

" If any of those adjectives do not apply to how you’re feeling right now, we wanna know. "

" If you have a question at the end of a presentation, please put that question in the thread associated with the talk. "

" Today we’re gonna be talking about researchers as organizational change makers. "

" MJ Broadband saves our fingers some pain and some stress because we don’t have to take notes. "

" We have session notes, sketch notes, resource lists, videos, and decks — no need to take notes yourself. "

" If you are a cohort participant and don’t see your private Slack channel, please let us know so we can guide you. "

" Civic design is relatively new and spans all kinds of government agencies from federal and national down to tribal and local. "

" I’m still early on in measuring accessibility impact but tying early bug fixes to ROI is promising. "

" The program page has a time zone selector so everyone can attend sessions on their local time without confusion. "

" It seemed just like yesterday that I was talking with Dave Malouf. He dropped that term design ops on me. "

" We help each other, support each other, and guide each other through murky and unclear times. "

" Language matters—make your OKRs user-centric and customer-focused to avoid them feeling like overhead. "

" How do we know how to evaluate radical participatory design? Has there been a sustained shift in power? "

" If you ever feel unsafe or threatened, please let us know in the #do-help channel. "

" If you have more ops people than designers, you risk chaos and underappreciation of what ops actually delivers. "

" Kay Abba is a business and project analyst, UX designer, and project manager who brings multifaceted expertise to our note-taking. "

" If you’re not in our Slack channel, you’re missing out on so many big parts of the party. "

" The cohorts have been a slam dunk hit in our virtual conferences while we’ve been doing them. "

" Please be nice, respect each other, and carry yourself as if you were at your day job. "

" It is my honor and pleasure to welcome each of you to the 2021 Design at Scale Conference. "