Adey Salyards
SENIOR DESIGN MANAGER
With 8+ years experience, including 3 as a design manager, I lead design teams to create apps that work hard for their users. I’m obsessive about the details of the craft and I have a track record of shipping measurably high-impact design.
Experience
Walmart - Online Grocery (2017 - Present)
Leading a team of 9 designers across 3 locations, we designed the apps store employees use to fulfill customer’s orders. In one year, I scaled the team from 4 designers to 9, including a dedicated content strategist. I’m especially proud that we were able to ensure design research was a part of every deliverable. I worked closely with the customer-facing design team to complete end-to-end service design for new features.
Capital One - Consumer App (2015 - 2017)
I led the design for the banking sections of Capital One’s iPhone and iPad app. During my time at Capital One, I championed rapid iterative prototyping using Swift and XCode and led bootcamps to teaching this designers. In addition, I established a reusable component library using Sketch libraries to ensure consistency across the app.
AKQA (2013 - 2015)
During my time as a designer at AKQA DC, I worked on clients such as Verizon, Electrolux, United States Postal Service, Leidos, Ubisoft, Universal Studios and Delta. These companies entrusted our design team to put forth a strong digital strategy and carry it through to delivery.
Elsewhere
“Reflections on IXDA Latin America 2019 - Medellín” - Medium.com, November 2019
AIGA DC Design Week - Walmart Studio Lunch, September 2019
"Creating a Design System" - NoVa UX Meetup, June 2017
"Learning to code built trust on my team" - Medium.com, July 2016
"The under-appreciated benefits of having a creative rival" - Medium.com, March 2016
Brands I’ve worked with
Case Studies
Walmart’s online grocery business has grown like crazy. But the store employee apps hadn’t been updated in years. Specifically, the store managers were working from a hodgepodge of old desktop apps, none of which worked well.
The ask: Create a new handheld app that the manager can use for all their tasks.
Reading List
You know how we all have a list of books we return to again and again? This is mine.
High Output Management - Andy Grove
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Fisher, Ury, Patton
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most - Stone, Patton, Heen, Fisher
Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration Through Critique - Connor, Irizarry
Measure What Matters: How Google, the Gates Foundation and Bono Rock the World with OKRs - John Doerr
Org Design for Design Orgs - Merholz, Skinner
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything in Business - Patrick Lencioni