Bob Baxley

SVP, Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot

Bob Baxley is a designer, advisor, mentor, and advocate that has built, managed, and led teams at some of Silicon Valley’s most notable companies. With a career spanning three decades, Bob’s work at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, and elsewhere has touched hundreds of millions users around the world through search, social media, e-commerce, fintech, and productivity apps. Currently, Bob advocates for programs and organizations that are helping to recruit and inspire the next generation of designers.

Rosenverse talks by Bob:

" We’re moving from wanting to see the table to having an actual place at it. "

Theme 4: Intro

January 8, 2024

" The journey metaphor is better than the sprint because transformation doesn’t have a finishing point. "

Theme 4: Discussion

January 8, 2024

" Design is problem-solving, and part of the problem is the environment in which you’re trying to work. "

Leading with Design Operations Past and Present

December 19, 2019

Rosenverse People Everyone

Dave Gray

Author of Liminal Thinking, Founder of the School of the Possible

Dolly Parikh

Impact Strategy Fellow, The Nature Conservancy and Founder, Aloki Design Labs

Nathan Shedroff

Co-author of Blind Spot and Make It So; author of Design Is the Problem

Thomas J. McLeish

Lecturer, UC Berkeley & CCA

Hugh Dubberly

Designer, Design Theorist, and Educator

Shivanjali M.

Research Operations Manager, SumUp

Catt Small

Staff Product Designer at Dropbox and Author of The Staff Designer

Johnny Michaelsen

Director of Design & Research Operations @ Wise

Eric Shumake

Principal Researcher at HXRlabs.com

Meghan Bausone

Doctor of Design, NC State University

Himanshu Bharadwaj

Founder, Joyful Design

Sara Conklin

Customer Operations Manager, Vayu

Samuel Martin

CEO/Founder, SDM Consulting (Co-Design Institute)

Louis Rosenfeld

Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Basel Fakhoury

CEO & Co-founder, User Interviews

Kalee Dankner

Research Operations, LinkedIn

Petra Rajkov

Senior UX Researcher & Research Advocate, UXtweak

Lauren Galanter

Research Operations Program Manager, Elsevier

Bruce Falk

Contracting Officer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Jon Temple

Design Principal for AI & Automation User Experience, IBM

Maria Rosala

Director of Research, Nielsen Norman Group

Caroline Jarrett

Author of Surveys That Work

Justyna Parmee

Product Researcher, Survicate

Kate Towsey

Author of Research That Scales

Erin Weigel

Author of Design for Impact

Oren Friedman

Co-Founder and CEO, Rally

Aleksandra Korczynska

CMO, Survicate

Graham Gardner

VP of UX Design Research Operations, U.S. Bank

Sam Ladner

Sociologist and Researcher

Leonie Annor-Owiredu

Researcher, Writer and co-founder of Words We Write Literary Festival

Alexis McNutt Unis

Customer Research Lead, One Pay

Daniel Korczynski

Chief Product Officer, Survicate

Erin May

CMO, User Interviews

Sydney Lawson

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Rally

Laura Klein

Author of Build Better Products

Taylor Jennings

Research and Product Operations, Chili Piper

Jon White

Lead UX Researcher, User Interviews

Kwabena Opoku

UX Researcher, Nationwide

Vitorio Miliano

Staff Design Technologist, Tertile, LLC

James Wieselman Schulman

Senior Design Lead, Disruptive Solution Design, Evernorth

Feyikemi Akinwolemiwa

Research and Design Manager, National Grid

Mujtaba Hameed

Senior Research Consultant, Stripe Partners

Steve Krug

Author of Don’t Make Me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy

Tara Tressel

User Research Partner, Great Question

Jessica Sheng

Research & Design Operations Manager, Justworks

Dana Chisnell

Design Leader in Residence, Bloom Works

Kelly Goto

Author of Web Design 2.0

Tala Tayebi

Research Operations Manager, Cloudflare

Kurt McCulloch

Sr. Manager, UX Research, LinkedIn

Taylor Klassman

Director of UX, Dscout