Leadership

Interview with Madhavi Jagdish about her career path from leading a team to leading with craft

Companies are finally listening to designers, writes Google Ventures' Kate Aronowitz. Here's what designers need to do now.

Some tools allow us to move pixels and some affect the bigger picture.

One of the most rewarding things with having a newsletter is getting insight into your subscribers every day lives. People will reply to…

A series about hands-on career paths in the design industry.

Dive into the real struggles of management and how to overcome them.

Three ways to grow your influence at work.

How to choose the right career path for you.

Gen Z are truly mould-breakers when it comes to attitudes towards work and employers need to better understand how to develop their talents.

If you want to become a better leader, start practicing these skills.

If you’re a product designer, at some point, you must’ve been part of projects involving multiple teams, only to find that miscommunication…

A Head of Design messaged me on LinkedIn after seeing one of my posts. We’d never spoken before, but she asked if we could chat, so we set…

Design spent years trying to get a seat at the leadership table. But in too many cases, the inability to drive real impact is resulting in…

Lessons for the office I honed in the classroom

A counterintuitive strategy for delivering results

How aspiring leaders can guide their followers toward success

In my previous article, “The Myth of the First 90 Days”, we discussed the importance of making an immediate impact as a new engineering…

Product leaders and CEOs think differently, and that’s fine. Instead of resisting, partner with your CEO. Here’s what you need to do.

Making an Immediate Impact as a New Engineering Manager

Super Short New Manager Hacks

What do you need to achieve in your first 30 days in a new design leadership role? How can you keep yourself both sane and productive?

Leadership, like all skills, has to be learned and the style you choose to adopt has to be in line with the company and its employees.

Exploring what a senior design managers role involves, emphasising the balance between strategy, creativity, and team dynamics.

Don’t join them, beat them

Managing designers is a logical career path people choose when they’ve grown into their careers a fair bit. While in larger companies there are established p...

Discover how designers can work smoothly with product managers, align with product goals, and create meaningful, user-friendly designs…

The things you need to know.

Design leadership as we know it, is over, but it’s going to be OK.

Take the best of being a designer and create a durable playbook for handling challenges as a manager