Helen Shaffer

Group Design Lead Wise

CONFERENCE DAY ONE

4:30 PM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Wrangling Platform Complexity with Design

Spoiler alert - your platform is probably more complicated than it needs to be! Scaling platforms without the superpowers that Design teams bring to the table often leads to the same place: platforms that are overly complex, expensive to maintain, and impossible to scale. In this presentation Helen Shaffer - an experienced design team leader - will go through the crucial role design teams play in planning and scaling platforms - even when there’s no traditional user interfaces involved.

  • Get a sense of how systems thinking can help you streamline your services, teams, and platform offerings.
  • Mythbust common misconceptions about the discipline of Design in software organizations.
  • Understand how the way Designers are trained to think compliments the programming mindset.
  • See how the Design approach can help fill in the gaps in your organization’s understanding and alignment.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Helen.

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