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2023

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Event Details

Product Design Bits is an event series brought to you by the Product Design Team at Datadog. We share insights on how, why, and for whom we build products at Datadog alongside invited guests.

At our event, we’ll be exploring the process of product design and diving into persuasion for stakeholder buy-in and approvals. Our guests will be Catt Small, Staff Product Designer at Dropbox, and Edwin Morris, Staff Product Designer at Datadog.
Here’s what to expect from this event:

Here’s what to expect from this event:

What Catt and Edwin work on as Staff Designers at public tech companies
Why Catt and Edwin need to obtain approval and buy-in for their work
Who approves their work
How they manage the process of persuading approvers
Successes, failures, lessons learned

This is an in-person event. The discussions will be recorded and made available through podcasting platforms. That said, we'd love to invite you to check out the previous episodes on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Food and drink will be provided.

Agenda

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Reception and Arrival

6:30 PM - 6:40 PM

Welcome and Introduction

6:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A

7:45 PM - 8:30 PM

Networking and Closing

Agenda

Friday

2pm

Welcome + Networking Reception

Gather at Marché at 2pm for a welcome and networking reception. Meet colleagues and exchange ideas.

3pm

Opening Keynote: “Never Ending Game”

At 3pm we'll kick off proceedings with a keynote from art director Callie Moore entitled “Never Ending Game.”

4pm

Roundtable: “Protein Interaction Networks”

At 4pm, join a roundtable discussion on protein interaction networks with panelists Nell Richardson, Hugo Hitchcock, and moderator Ernest Arnaud.

Saturday

10am

Continental Breakfast

We return at 10am Saturday morning with a second networking session over breakfast.

11am

Ruby Coast: “Feeling Good About Feeling Good”

Join Ruby Coast for an interactive workshop session open to all.

12pm

Ann Tjader: “Here on Earth”

At noon, author and speaker and Ann Tjader will present important lessons gained from her third novel, “Here on Earth.”

Agenda

Meet the Speakers

Karl Sluis

Moderator

Staff Product Designer, Datadog

Karl is a Staff Product Designer at Datadog, specializing in data visualization across the entire product suite. He has always relished the challenge of turning tremendous amounts of data into compelling visuals and useful interfaces.

Catt Small

Panelist

Staff Product Designer, DropBox

Catt is a product design leader who has worked with companies of all sizes including Dropbox, Asana, Etsy, and SoundCloud. She also makes video games and draws art. You can view her work at cattsmall.com.

Edwin Morris

Panelist

Staff Product Designer, Datadog

Edwin is a Staff Product Designer at Datadog working on Platform features like dashboards, monitors, and the graph editor. He's worked as a product designer and front-end developer in New York since 2014.

Get to Know More

How Datadog uses Datadog to gain visibility into the Datadog user experience

As product designers at Datadog, we need to understand our users, so that we can improve their experience of our platform. We need to understand how our products help them get work done. And we need data for that.

Some of this data can be gathered directly from interviews. Much of it is high-fidelity and qualitative data. How could we supplement it with quantitative data?

We needed a tool that gives us visibility into user experience. Since Datadog is a monitoring platform, this is an opportunity to do some “dogfooding”— that is, to use our own products on ourselves. In this case, we use Datadog’s Real User Monitoring (RUM), in conjunction with logs and notebooks.

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About Datadog

We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age. We help organizations enable digital transformation and drive collaboration across their teams.

Together as a team, we are building, supporting, and scaling today’s world-class cloud monitoring and security platform.

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