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Dave Malouf

Consultant, Coach, Teacher

Dave Malouf is Director of UX Design at Walmart, where he leads strategic initiatives across AI, Platform Design, and Design Operations. A recognized pioneer in Interaction Design and a foundational voice in the DesignOps movement, Dave brings decades of experience shaping design practice at scale. Prior to Walmart, he held design leadership roles at HP, Teladoc, Rackspace, and Motorola, and served as a Professor of Interaction Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Dave is known for blending thoughtful design craft with systems thinking, and for pushing the boundaries of what it means to design in the age of AI.

Rosenverse talks by Dave:

Dave Malouf

" Funding models remain the biggest challenge in enterprise UX, deeply tied to power dynamics. "

10 Years of Enterprise UX: Reflecting on the community and the practice

June 18, 2025

Dave Malouf

" Design ops should coordinate initiatives, measure impact, and advocate for designer happiness as a business metric - Peter Bosma. "

Charting the future of DesignOps: A community workshop

April 18, 2024

Dave Malouf

" Resiliency is not necessarily how we react to challenges, but how we move beyond them. "

Theme 3: Introduction and Provocation

January 8, 2024

Dave Malouf

" Without real business world experience, most leaders struggle with the overwhelming amount of demands placed on them. "

The Future of DesignOps

January 8, 2024

Dave Malouf

" Knowledge management is not just about tools but about creating knowledge-sharing capabilities and identifying subject matter experts. "

The Past, Present, and Future of DesignOps: a 2-part DesignOps Community Call (Part 2)

April 28, 2022

Dave Malouf

" Not every Design Ops person is the same, and Design Ops is going to look very different at every company. "

The Past, Present, and Future of DesignOps: a 2-part DesignOps Community Call (Part 1)

February 17, 2022

Dave Malouf

" Design turns a 10 from an engineering team into an 11 or a 12; it turns up the volume much more. "

Closing Keynote: Amplify. Not Optimize.

October 24, 2019

Dave Malouf

" Break your design system components and stress test them to see where they break so you can improve them. "

Panel: Design Systems and Documentation

November 7, 2017

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