Jon Fukuda

" Vibe coding is coding when you cannot code — it’s coding on vibes. "

" We should advocate together, not just for ourselves; if you want to go far, go together. "

" Today’s about celebrating the big and small innovations that make us more effective and intentional. "

" Getting people who don’t communicate well to at least work together on a single thing is the first step to innovating together. "

" Design ops is like when everything's working well, nobody notices it; when things break down, everyone misses it - Theresa citing Camden Moore. "

" Design ops must run as a business, setting KPIs, managing budgets, and delivering measurable value. "

" We don’t need a north star, we need a constellation that allows us to see the full picture. "

" AI is a great automated assist, but it is not yet an insight generator like we hope for in UX research. "

" We're hearing do more with less, cut down or cut out the research, build features that we tell you to, not the ones users ask for. "

" No one wants to hear a story that makes them feel bad; you have to create a safe environment that offers hope. "

" Planned right and managed right is the key to designing it right, not just designing the right thing and building it right. "

" Just because empathy isn’t always visible at the top doesn’t mean you can’t be the change. "

" Growing a team of design ops managers that can fire on all these cylinders all at once. "

" There’s a lot of work to do aligning design systems so designers, engineers, and business analysts speak the same language. "