Amy Thibodeau: Balance speed and quality to achieve optimal velocity

Amy Thibodeau is the Chief Design Officer at Gusto, where she
empowers designers, researchers, and content strategists who are
working on products that connect companies with their employees
in a more meaningful way. Previously, Amy was a senior director
of UX at Shopify where she led a cross-functional team of over
130 people working on core business products. During her time at
Shopify, she also led the launch of the Polaris design system,
built the Platform UX team and founded the Design Ops practice.
In earlier iterations of her life, she was one of the first
members of Facebook’s now gigantic content strategy team,
renovated an old house in the south of France, worked in art
museums, and traveled around the world for a year. Amy lives in
Canada with her husband Dan and small but mighty dogs, Gus and
Ella.


We dive into the difference between the tension between speed and
quality, the importance of creating shared language and goals, as
well as the conditions for quality and velocity, and much much
more.