This week's episode is with Ryan Scott who was an early designer at Doordash and then spent years as a design lead at Airbnb. Nowadays Ryan teaches hundreds of designers ranging from seniors to VPs how to make a bigger impact at your company.

This episode is jam-packed with insights about:

What it’s like presenting at Airbnb CRIT
Ways to unlock your credibility as a designer
How to mitigate risk when presenting your ideas
What it takes to speak the language of the business
Types of “PM-y” questions that designers should be asking
How Ryan led a massive redesign of the Airbnb booking flow
The right (and wrong) way to make a case for investing in UX debt
How to talk about your work in a way that resonates with non-designers
a lot more

Get $100 off of Ryan’s course “Describing the ROI of design”
Ryan’s case study on redesigning the Airbnb checkout flow
Past interview with Alex Schleifer (Chief Design Officer at Airbnb)

The Relationship between the CPO & CTO