Danielle Rosenthal

Speaking

Talks and workshops

  • 30–45 min · Product, design, engineering leadership

    Who carries the complexity

    Tesler’s Law as an operating discipline: every feature has an irreducible amount of complexity, and the only question is who ends up holding it.

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  • 25–40 min · Mixed audiences, including non-technical

    Power-ups don’t pass levels

    AI is a power-up, and power-ups don’t pass levels — players do.

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  • 30 min + workshop · Engineering and product leadership

    The hypothesis ratio

    A five-minute diagnostic for whether a build relationship is resolving ambiguity or returning it.

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  • 30–45 min, or a workshop · Managers, and anyone rolling something out

    Capacity comes before capability

    Why a lot of what reads as resistance is capacity, how growth and overload look identical from outside, and what it takes to expand what a team can hold.

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  • 25–40 min · New and experienced managers

    To lead is not to talk down to

    Correction in forward tense, and why grace is the mechanism rather than the manners.

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  • 30–45 min · Anyone whose records get read later

    Designing for the auditor three years later

    Two users who never meet: the person filling in the form at six in the morning, and the person reading it long after everyone involved has moved on.

  • 30–45 min · Product and design teams

    The view is the product

    In software where people read, scan, compare and decide, the presentation is the product.

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  • 25–40 min, or a workshop · Design and research teams

    Whole accounts, not wireframes

    Building entire working organizations instead of wireframes, and designing from inside them.

Booking

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