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The Design Leadership Playbook: How to Hire, Onboard & Manage a High-Impact Design Org

Twilio's Hareem Mannan shares useful advice for every stage of a designer's career, from IC to Manager to Director.

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A UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox

The ultimate guide to customer discovery without a UX research team — from exploring ideas, to prototyping and troubleshooting thorny product problems.

The Case for Adding DesignOps to Your Org Chart — Lessons From InVision

A detailed guide from a design operations pro for how DesignOps can bring the joy back into design for startups.

The Ultimate Guide to the Founding Designer Role

We summarized the most tactical, honest pieces of advice from a group of design experts on what it really takes to be a startup's first design hire.

Ready, Set, Hypergrowth: How Duo's Product Design Lead Primed Her Team for Momentum

Sally Carson joined Duo as its first product design leader, just as the security startup was ratcheting into hypergrowth. Carson shares her roadmap for scaling the product design function, from advocating for design in an engineering-centric org, to setting up her team for success during rapid growth.

Defining Growth Design: The Guide to the Role Most Startups are Missing

Angel Steger serves as our guide on a trek to better understand the still developing speciality of growth design. She shares lessons learned from her roles leading the function at Dropbox and Pinterest, and outlines tactics for early-stage startups looking to source, interview and onboard growth designers of their own.

Our 6 Must Reads for Building and Leading a Product Design Team

A well-thought-out design team often accompanies enduring product design. Here are six pieces of advice to help you build and lead a design team from the sole designer to a larger design organization.

Defining Product Design: A Dispatch from Airbnb's Design Chief

Airbnb VP of Design Alex Schleifer shares how design can become a more intentional, integrated discipline — and why it must be in order to better build products.

Here’s How Asana Won With Its Product Redesign

Redesigns are difficult and inevitable. Product manager Sam Goertler shares how Asana successfully executed its redesign with a unique, iterative approach.

Making Design Bets to Knock the Blurs into Shape

Dom Goodrum, Design Director at Percolate, talks about making long-term bets to build a strong design team and strategy.

Simple Design is What You Need, Not What You Want

Oscar's Head of Product outlines the four design strategies that will help them disrupt the entrenched health insurance industry.

An Inside Look at Facebook's Method for Hiring Designers

Julie Zhuo, Director of Product Design, shares Facebook's in-depth process for hiring talented designers step by step.

How Designers Can Earn a Seat at the Table

Phil King rose through the ranks to lead design at Flickr. His mission: To help more designers become leaders and advocate for their craft.

How Startups Can Do Retail Right from the Inventor of the Apple Store

Ron Johnson is known as the creator of the Apple Store. Now he's sharing advice for startups that want to pursue and win at retail.

Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid

If you take what you're doing too seriously, you're likely to squeeze the life out of it. Here's a guide to letting your projects stay stupid and fun.

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