Rosenfeld Review Podcast Navigating the AI-Driven Shift in DesignOps with Aletheia Delivre
Sep 2, 2025
Aletheia Delivre, Senior Program Manager of Design Engineering Collaboration & Strategy at Microsoft, discusses the seismic shifts in design operations due to AI. She highlights how AI-infused tools are transforming workflows, demanding professionals to rethink roles and collaboration methods. Aletheia compares design leaders to architects, guiding their teams through evolving dynamics. She also offers insights on maintaining situational awareness in an AI landscape and emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations and innovative practices in design.
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From Diplomacy To Design Ops
- Aletheia described her nonlinear path from diplomacy to service design and standing up early design teams in government.
- She then moved through startups and enterprise roles before joining Microsoft to focus on design-engineering collaboration.
Management Model Is Being Rewritten
- The traditional model of managing a known design process is breaking as AI upends assumptions.
- Ops now must experiment, define new paradigms, and manage while learning simultaneously.
Prototypes Replace Static Mockups
- AI-enabled tooling can convert prompts into functional prototypes, changing the medium where collaboration happens.
- That shift affects clarity of decisions, technical constraint awareness, and the quality of feedback teams receive.
