I've been in leadership at Kessel Run for a few years now, and along the way I've learned a few lessons about leading product designers.
Want to know what I know? Read on.
Apply Lean Agile Principles.
To All Sorts Of Things.
What does Software design have to do with making waffles? More than you might think.
How I used lean agile methods to feed my office.
Be diligent in how you identify problems and point teams at solutions
Discovery doesn't have to be mysterious.
The same principles that work for a product team can scale to portfolios and product lines.
Build Up Your People, Always
Build up a Design System, when the time is right
This is a tough one.
Lead from the Front
There are a lot more lessons I could rant about.
If you're curious, ask me in an interview.
A few potential conversation starters if you want to get me riled up:
"How do you center around a user that you hope doesn't exist?"
"Sometimes, you have to feed the trolls."
"What is weaponized bureaucracy?