Chances are good that every department in your enterprise already uses some design thinking tactics in their work. Helping these other partners and departments understand the power of this design thinking is a key to scaling the influence of the design organization and infusing the entire enterprise with more creative problem-solving, collaboration, and purposeful fun.

• Define design thinking for your design org and also understand how it applies to product management, engineering, marketing, and other departments.
  
• Hear about tactics for sharing design thinking and its positive results with partners across your organization.
  
• See how design thinking can be built into the systems that fuel design, product development, and critical business processes such as planning.
  

Let’s talk about design careers–and about doing design work under the influence of just the right amount of caffeine. These Compass design leaders guide you through a discussion of a day in the life of product designers at a fast-growing enterprise. And they’ll also talk about their journeys getting there.

• Hear about design and career opportunities in a technology company that is bringing meaningful disruption to real estate.
• See what it’s like to design beautiful productivity tools for real estate agents and an industry that seems to thrive on complexity.
  
• Get insight into how your own career path is reflected in the many paths that lead to good product design.
  

Research helps us understand the customer’s needs, behaviors, and attitudes, design meets those needs through interaction and visual expertise, and content helps make sure the entire experience is expressed in the customer’s language. It seems simple, right? So where does it go wrong? Hear from Compass leaders about how misunderstanding these roles leads to poor collaboration and how we can change the way we work together to deliver incredible customer experiences.

• Hear from leaders in design, content, and research about the most common ways their role is misunderstood and the impact this has on the customer experience.
• Learn ways design, content, and research can communicate and collaborate better to collectively create better experiences that scale.
• Get a better understanding of the unique role design, content, and research play in our customer’s lives and how to use each other’s secret powers to deliver better customer outcomes.