From working in hospitality to building a Design community is a rare transition that Mindaugas Petruitis made. These days Mindaugas is focused on his design fellowship at On Deck (space between On and Deck) as Program Director for the Designer Fellowship. Endless conversations and networking with Product & Design People across the globe motivated and inspired him to come up with this fellowship.

In this episode, the product bakers and Mindaugas look at the evolvement of design communities as well as the challenges they are facing.

Table of content:

• 00:30 - Intro Mindaugas Petrutis
• 05:45 - The biggest challenges the Design Space is facing
• 11:00 - Bringing different functions together
• 14:30 - The On Deck Design Leadership Fellowship
• 16:55 - From IC to becoming a Leader
• 18:45 - The importance of mentoring
• 24:30 - When networking starts to pay-off
• 27:05 - The Importance of community building
• 30:40 - Different types of communities
• 34:20 - Communities aren’t sales channels
• 37:40 - Mindaugas’ research for On Deck
• 41:15 - The biggest trends in the Design Space
• 44:00 - Debrief Alex & Christian

Mindaugas on the internet:

• Linkedin: @mindaugaspetrutis
• Twitter: @MindaugasLT
• On Deck: https://www.beondeck.com/designers 

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