Design Leadership

What if you could benefit from the expertise of your peers and find new ways to handle your challenges? While at the same time being a part of a bigger network of design leaders?

The aim of the design groups is to empower your work and your projects by providing you with thought-provoking inspiration, insights and new tools.

But also giving you the opportunity to seek advice from your peers and guest experts on your projects and day to day work; so you can steer clear of mistakes that other design leaders have already made.

After each meeting, you receive meeting notes. You also get access to an online forum for members to continue the conversations in between the meetings. There are expert guest speakers at most meetings to provide further input to the group. Guest speakers could be relevant customer cases, analysts or experts.

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• Ask Me Anything With Peter Merholz

• Design Leadership Requires Community Management Skills

• How To Lead Remote And Distributed Teams?

• How Universal Robots Works With UX And Design

• Introducing digital product equity

• Introducing The Handbook For Ethical Digital Design

• Leading design at Verizon

• What’s Dennis cooking: AI & Creativity

Upcoming meetings

• 21 November at Haiilo in Hamburg

• 5 December at Universal Robots in Odense

• 17 January 2025 in Toronto

• 21 January in Copenhagen

• 12 March at The Royal Library in Aarhus (practitioners)

• March in Hamburg

• Q2 in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Hamburg and Toronto

• Q3 in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Hamburg and Toronto

• 4 - 5 November in Aarhus (co-located with Boye Aarhus 25 conference)

Topics covered

Design leadership requires a diverse toolbox, as well as the ability to combine those tools strategically across channels. This is why this group brings together leaders with a variety of skill sets, and covers a wide array of topics:

• Accessibility and inclusive design

• Building environmentally sustainable websites through UX exercises

• Building the winning design team

• Designing new concepts

• Digital innovation

• How to communicate ideas

• Using data strategically

• Working with DesignOps

Grace de Athayde, Sr. Manager Digital Product Design at LEGO, also moderates this group from time to time. Grace has also previously been both a speaker and a track leader at our Boye conferences.

Being in the field of UX for more than 15 years, Thorsten Jonas builds up UX Teams and leads clients to create meaningful digital products, platforms and experiences.

He’s widely known for his work on sustainability and is the founder of the Sustainable UX Network.

Thorsten leads our Hamburg chapter that we launched in 2023.