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Mia Blume, former design leader at Square and Pinterest, shares insights on increasing your influence as a designer. Topics include strategies for design critiques, challenging the status quo, collaboration between design and engineering, and working on projects at startups. They also discuss processes and organizational design strategies for small design teams.
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- Design managers should focus on designing the team, organization, and business, creating an environment that fosters creativity and collaboration.
- To stay relevant, designers should focus on moving up the value chain, solving complex problems, and developing skills to contribute beyond traditional craft-based roles.
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Designing the Team and Organization
A great design manager understands that their role is to design the team, organization, and business, rather than just focusing on the product. They create an environment that fosters creativity and collaboration, holding space for the team to thrive. Design managers need to let go of their identity as a maker and embrace their responsibility to design the ecosystem in which their team operates.
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