A comprehensive set of career and leadership principles for designers, organized across eight areas: craft excellence, time management, decision-making, communication, stakeholder alignment, prioritization and scoping, team management, and managing up. Key themes include maintaining hands-on craft skills at all seniority levels, structuring your day intentionally, building decision confidence through intuition or data, communicating clearly and definitively, aligning stakeholders in person before broadcasting decisions, and coaching teams by continuously raising the performance bar while providing strong support.
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On being a great designerOn managing your timeOn taking decisionsOn communicationOn aligning stakeholdersOn prioritization & scopingOn managing your teamOn managing upOn behaviorRead moreNote to New Design Managers LeadershipSmall Slope Mentorship CareerWhat is Simple? DesignLeverage in Large Organizations CareerEffective User Personas DesignSort: