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Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)

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Oct 15, 2023
Katie Dill, Head of Design at Stripe and former design leader at Airbnb and Lyft, shares her insights on creating beautiful and functional products. She discusses the importance of collaboration between design and engineering to enhance user experience. Katie highlights a pivotal leadership lesson learned at Airbnb, emphasizing trust and open feedback. She also shares strategies for building effective design teams and nurturing innovation, while stressing the need for quality in driving business growth.
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ANECDOTE

Intervention at Airbnb

  • Katie Dill shares a story from her early days at Airbnb where the design team staged an intervention.
  • She hadn't earned their trust by coming in "swinging" instead of listening, a key leadership lesson.
INSIGHT

Two T-Shirts

  • Co-locating design, engineering, and product fosters shared goals and rapid feedback.
  • Designers should also maintain a separate space for community building and creative exploration.
INSIGHT

Quality as Long-Term Investment

  • Many prioritize features over quality, enticed by measurable ROI.
  • However, prioritizing quality, like regular exercise, yields long-term gains, even without immediate, quantifiable results.
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