Tami Evnin
Tami Evnin is Director of Platform Design at Diligent, a global GRC software company, where she leads a 20-person design team. She’s driving AI innovation across Diligent’s portfolio, including a design system MCP for faster design-to-code handoff, the design of Diligent’s first AI-powered analytics tool, and the broader vision for human-AI collaboration across all products.
With over 15 of experience in enterprise software design, Tami specializes in building design operations, systems thinking, and scaling design leadership. Outside of work, she explores textile arts and quilting in Chicago, bringing the same systems-thinking approach to both her professional practice and creative pursuits.
For more, keep up with Tami at tamievnin.com.
Presentations
UX Camp Winter 2026
Beyond Templates: Using AI as a Thought Partner for Design Leadership
Design leaders spend hundreds of hours annually on performance management – reviews, 1:1s, feedback conversations, career development plans – yet most of us received no formal training in these skills. As teams scale, the cognitive load becomes unsustainable. This talk shares a practical framework for using AI as a thought partner for people management work, with specific workflows and prompting strategies for performance review preparation, difficult conversation scripting, 1:1 structuring, and career development planning – drawn from managing a 20+ person distributed design team at an enterprise software company.
This isn’t about automating empathy or generating templated feedback. You’ll learn the critical guardrails: what AI can help with versus where human judgment is non-negotiable. Whether you manage 2 people or 20, you’ll leave with immediately actionable approaches – specific prompt frameworks you can adapt, a starter workflow for integrating AI into your management practice, and honest guidance on measuring impact without compromising psychological safety.
Leadership By Design 2017
World’s Best Boss: Lessons Learned from a New Design Leader
What happens when you’re asked to step-up and lead the work of the design team or to manage your fellow designers for the first time? Most of us envision ourselves sketching ideas, designing solutions, or prototyping our days away, forever in our happy place. And we’re no different–we had no idea what to expect, beyond knowing what we saw that we thought was good or… not so good. We became new design managers and had to learn how to navigate our new responsibilities–to our boss and to our former peers–while trying to lead others to be successful as designers.
We faced a lot of challenges, and learned a lot about ourselves, our teams, and our boss. We’re going to share some tools and techniques that have helped us become better at leading our teams, and delivering to those who count on all of us. And we’re still working on becoming the best bosses in the world.
