Dave Malouf

" The hardest talk of all time is five minutes, not 30 or 45. "

" Trust is fragile with designers; without clear communication, metrics can feel like micromanagement - Dave Malu. "

" I like to think about individuals as cells, teams as organs, and organizations as organisms in an ecosystem. "

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

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

" The dynamic between employer and employee is changing a lot, and from a Design Ops perspective, that's something to keep our eye on. "

" Collaboration is working together; coordination is doing separate parts and then syncing up later. "

" For every single component, we start with its purpose and emergent need to ground design in user experience. "