Dan Willis
Consultant, U.S. Digital Service
Dan Willis is a designer and consultant helping the U.S. Digital Service fix the federal government one project at a time. He led a major DesignOps effort at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and is currently helping FEMA overhaul its approach for creating enterprise software. Willis led design teams at PBS, Marriott and The Washington Post and his consulting clients have included Volkswagen, the Royal Bank of Canada and the American Museum of Natural History. A frequent speaker at international, national and local UX-related conferences, he is the co-author and illustrator of Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation.
Rosenverse talks by Dan:
" Michelle Wong took her outside consulting experience inside at PwC to design tools for contractors. "
Theme 3: Intro
January 8, 2024
" It’s never all or nothing — product success must balance user needs and business constraints. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 3, 2019
" Design ops was fast-tracked because our new VP of design already believed in scaling it and made it integral to the business plan. "
Panel Discussion: Integrating DesignOps
November 7, 2018
" The best time to build design operations is when you’re structuring the whole organization—but that’s rare and mostly startups. "
Filling the Void
November 7, 2018
" Show, don't tell—demonstrate your expertise every day. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 14, 2018
" Fortunately, that was terrible. Let’s try the other word. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 8, 2017
" You have to know the difference between hard constraints you can’t move and soft constraints that you can hack around. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
June 8, 2016
" Enterprise problems are often engineering problems as much as design problems. "
Enterprise Storytelling Sessions
May 13, 2015
