Workshops
Our workshops are designed with you in mind. They combine the cutting edge expertise of some of the world’s leading UX experts with the same high quality that people love about Rosenfeld Media’s UX books and conferences.
From Ladder to Trellis: Building Flexible Career Architectures for UX Teams
with Peter Merholz
8 hours over 4 segments: September 12-15
In this workshop, Peter Merholz will show how the integration of a robust Skills Taxonomy and Leveling Framework enables a “corporate trellis” career architecture across disciplines (design, research, and content) and leadership types. Learn to shape these flexible career architectures into HR-friendly tools that succeed even in highly bureaucratic environments like financial services.

DesignOps Fundamentals: Tangible Benefits, Measurable Outcomes
with Dave Malouf
10 hours over 2 segments: September 14-15, 2022
This workshop will take you on a journey from developing a custom DesignOps strategy or practice to ensuring its delivery and ongoing assessment. You’ll learn clear methods and techniques to assess the needs of your design team, prioritize initiatives, sequence projects, and measure impact. And you’ll walk away with an approach that enables you to better understand your design teams’ health and performance, and business and engagement models.

The Content Strategy Practice Blueprint: Building from the Ground Up
with Natalie Marie Dunbar
10 hours over 3 segments: September 14-16, 2022
You’ll learn the five components to the practice building process that comprise the Content Strategy Practice Blueprint, detailed in Natalie’s recently published Rosenfeld Media book, From Solo to Scaled: Building a Sustainable Content Strategy Practice.

Measuring Impact in DesignOps
with Farid Sabitov and Z
10 hours over 3 segments: September 20-22, 2022
The most challenging part of DesignOps is actually helping the design department to communicate impact at scale. Together with Z and Farid, we are going to help you to create your own story of how different practices and teams within your organization can put more focus on outcomes based on the real metrics.

Make Design Systems People Want to Use
with Dan Mall
12 hours over 4 segments: September 29-30 and October 6-7, 2022
SuperFriendly founder and CEO Dan Mall will walk you through the difference between component libraries and true design systems, new workflows for tighter collaboration between designers and engineers, how to measure success, and a lot more.
