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Preorder our newest book, Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience and get 15% off!

Without words, apps would be an unusable jumble of shapes and icons, while voice interfaces and chatbots wouldn’t even exist. Words make software human-centered, and require just as much thought as the branding and code. Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience by Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle will show you how to give your users clarity, test your words, and collaborate with your team. You’ll see that writing is designing.

What Others Are Saying

“This book doesn’t just formalize the discipline of writing for the user experience; it empowers all digital product writers to stand up for their craft and take a permanent seat at the design table.”
— Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and author, Content Strategy for the Web

“At last! A book that treats writing for products as a design practice that has tangible, lasting impact on the user experience. Andy and Michael don’t just help you write better—they help you design better products.”
— Jonathon Colman, Senior Design Manager, Intercom

Speaker decks, presentation videos, Natalie Hansen’s tripnotes, and MJ Broadbent’s sketchnotes are now available via the conference’s program page; enjoy! You can also see all the photos from the conference here.

We hope to see you again next year—or even sooner at Advancing Research 2020 (March 30-April 1 in New York City)

—Lou Rosenfeld and the DesignOps Summit team

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted their proposal to speak at the very first Advancing Research conference! 

In this episode of the Rosenfeld Review, Lou and Angelos Arnis, Producer of the Joint Futures Conference in Helsinki, Finland (September 2-5, 2019), discuss the evolving landscape of design professionals’ needs, and how the Joint Futures Conference has changed to suit them.  Rosenfeld Media is pleased to partner with Joint Futures this year to offer four full-day workshops on September 5, 2019.

For more about the workshops click here.
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According to our user research, you want a conference program that offers practical information (tools, techniques, and take-aways that you can bring back to the office), and you’re motivated by these three themes:

1. Proving Value, Measuring Outcomes
2. Partnering Outside Design
3. Change Management

The DesignOps Summit’s two-day main program (October 23-24) is designed with those needs in mind. And our six day-long workshops (October 25) delve even more deeply into the topics you’ll need to develop modern Design and Research Operations.

—Dave Malouf, Kristin Skinner, Abby Covert, & Lou Rosenfeld (program chairs)

Looking for an opportunity for deep design learning? We’re offering six transformational day-long workshops at the DesignOps Summit in New York City on October 25.

• Creating Career Ladders for DesignOps with Brennan Hartich and Amanda Weisfeld
• ResearchOps 101: How to Get ResearchOps Off the Ground with Kate Towsey
• Understand and Change Your Work Culture Through Meetings with Kevin M. Hoffman
• Operating Design Systems: Curating a Product, Serving Products with Nathan Curtis
• Design Your Design Organization with Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner
• Design Operations and Program Management with Jacqui Frey

Read more about these full-day courses and register.

Purchase your ticket to the third DesignOps Summit before July 9 to take advantage of the best price we’ll offer—Save up to $650.

DesignOps Summit is the first conference dedicated to showing design leaders how to create design capacity that keeps pace with change. Our first conference (November 2017 in New York City) sold out. In 2018, we returned to New York for another sold out event. View the program from last year’s conference here. Visit our YouTube channel for recordings of all presentations.

The third DesignOps Summit will take place in Brooklyn, October 23-25—typically lovely, crisp fall days in New York City. We’ll convene for the main conference (October 23-24) at the brand new auditorium in CityTech’s New Academic Complex in Downtown Brooklyn. The conference venue is accessible to Manhattan via subway or taxi, and walkable from the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridge. The New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge—a five-minute walk from the conference venue—is the official DesignOps Summit Hotel. We’ve arranged a discounted rate for a limited number of guest rooms (first come, first served). We’ve also arranged for a block of rooms at the nearby Sheraton Brooklyn, also at a discounted rate. Book by September 30, 2019.

A variety of sponsors will host our day-long workshops in various New York locations on October 25. Interested in being a host sponsor? We’d love to talk.

HOW TO KEEP UP WITH THE DESIGNOPS SUMMIT

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