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:
" We don’t have meetings without all three sides of the business, product, and design coming together now. "
10 Years of Enterprise UX: Reflecting on the community and the practice
June 18, 2025
" Design ops is not execution or tactical, it’s a leadership role that brings design thinking to the whole organization - 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
" Design ops must run as a business, setting KPIs, managing budgets, and delivering measurable value. "
The Future of DesignOps
January 8, 2024
" DesignOps has an obligation to bring positivity back into design practice. "
The Past, Present, and Future of DesignOps: a 2-part DesignOps Community Call (Part 2)
April 28, 2022
" Design Ops is going to have to deal with Product Ops, and figuring out that relationship will be a big deal. "
The Past, Present, and Future of DesignOps: a 2-part DesignOps Community Call (Part 1)
February 17, 2022
" Great design happens because of great designing — design is a verb, not just a noun. "
Closing Keynote: Amplify. Not Optimize.
October 24, 2019
" For every single component, we start with its purpose and emergent need to ground design in user experience. "
Panel: Design Systems and Documentation
November 7, 2017