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:
" Enterprise UX is about fixing broken systems that have a momentum of their own; it’s about improving, not quick solutions. "
10 Years of Enterprise UX: Reflecting on the community and the practice
June 18, 2025
" If design ops only serves designers, it risks silos; instead it must apply design thinking across R&D and product teams - Patrizia. "
Charting the future of DesignOps: A community workshop
April 18, 2024
" Design operations is about being that resilient force on behalf of everyone else in your organization. "
Theme 3: Introduction and Provocation
January 8, 2024
" Creativity and structure go hand in hand, like learning notes and then improvising jazz in music. "
The Future of DesignOps
January 8, 2024
" There’s a lot of work to do aligning design systems so designers, engineers, and business analysts speak the same language. "
The Past, Present, and Future of DesignOps: a 2-part DesignOps Community Call (Part 2)
April 28, 2022
" We need to start thinking about fluidity in identity because there is no 'this' anymore; people are multiracial, fluid in sexual identity, neurodiversity, and more. "
The Past, Present, and Future of DesignOps: a 2-part DesignOps Community Call (Part 1)
February 17, 2022
" Collaboration is working together; coordination is doing separate parts and then syncing up later. "
Closing Keynote: Amplify. Not Optimize.
October 24, 2019
" Constraints are a key element to creativity; without them, design can become ungrounded and chaotic. "
Panel: Design Systems and Documentation
November 7, 2017
