An early designer needs to have humility, autonomy and self-confidence in their design skills. TOME went 18 months without a PM almost like 18 months into our product roadmap. "You really will benefit from this person being able to speak the same language as engineering"
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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