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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#29 The evolvement of design communities - with Mindaugas Petrutis Program Director @On Deck