Katie says the first thing to do is just identify the role of a designer on your team. The best way to start the process is with the same approach you would use for any role you're trying to recruit for. "I often find that we know more people than we realize by simply going through first connections," she said.
Tome CPO and co-founder Henri Liriani and Katy Amaya of the Greylock talent team discuss the rising importance of founding designers at startups and share best practices for building strong design teams. While past generations of startups could get away with focusing purely on the technical aspects of their product in the initial stages and bring design teams later, today's startups are living in the age following an explosion of consumer apps (and the subsequent push for consumerization of enterprise software) that has resulted in a heavy focus on the end user experience. Good design is now a critical part of a company's success.
You can read a transcript of this interview here: https://greylock.com/greymatter/designed-with-purpose/
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