Presented at: * 'The New Designer' Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2017 * The Hacking UI Meetup in San Francisco August 2016 When I was told I needed to start building a design team - I didn't know what to do. I never managed before. So I looked for a shortcut, some way for me to create an accelerated learning for managing designers. I decided I will interview the top design managers in the world, and learn from their experience. That became the first season of the Hacking UI Podcast (http://hackingui.com/podcast). Almost two years of experience managing designers, 9 interviews, and one professional panel later, I am here to tell you all about the insights, lessons learned, and methodologies that I successfully implemented into my way of thinking and managing. From interviewing the world's top design managers for the Hacking UI Podcast. (http://hackingui.com/podcast) These insights are from our talks with the following design leaders: - Billy Kiely - VP Product at Invision - Melissa Hajj - Design Manager at Facebook - Emmet Connolly - Director of Design at Intercom - Joel Califa - Design Manager at Digital Ocean - Magera Moon - Design Manager at Etsy - Bob Baxley - Former Director of Design at Apple, (was also at Pinterest and Yahoo) - Katie Dill - Director of Experience Design at Airbnb - Jon Lax - Director of Product Design at Facebook - and more.. Heads up: Most of them are common sense - but they are way harder to actually practice and implement into your habits.

1. Common SenseWHAT I LEARNED FROM INTERVIEWING THE WORLD'S LEADING DESIGN MANAGERS
AND SCALING A DESIGN TEAM IN A FAST-GROWING COMPANY
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4. 2011
2016

5. Let’s Zoom in
2016
2011

7. “Sagi, time to start hiring and build a team”

9. Introducing: The Hacking UI Podcast
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10. Introducing: The Hacking UI Podcast
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11. Scaling a Design Team (Meetup), SF, Nov 2015

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A framework
separates a Sr.
from a Jr.
- Melissa Hajj |

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Management
is not for
Everyone
- Jon Lax |

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Management
is not for
Everyone

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Set your designers
up for success
- Joel Califa |

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Your company
needs to set you up
for success as well
- Joel Califa |

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Onboarding
designers should be
done by…
- Mike Monteiro

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Onboarding
designers should be
done by… Designers!
- Mike Monteiro

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Management is a
design problem.
• Do interviews, solve problems.
• Explore and iterate with workflows in the team.
- Katie Dill |

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Create a blame
free culture
(3 armed sweater award)
- Magera Moon |

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Set expectations
with each designer
- Katie Dill |

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Design critiques are
a thing
It’s our job as managers to teach our team
to do that and learn to master this
ourselves

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Iterate as you scale
“Notice when your team grows - you will spend
more time on context rather than feedback”
- Melissa Hajj |

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Be unofficial, often
- Melissa Hajj |

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Have a chat group
with your team
Slack/Basecamp/Facebook
- Billy Kiely |

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Don’t be an (art)
director, be a mentor
Ask questions that will make them think. “Do you
understand the problem that you’re solving?” or
‘’Is this a real problem?”
- Melissa Hajj |

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No trust,
No scale
You can’t be making sure everyone is doing their
job if you want to scale
- Joel Califa |

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- Melissa Hajj |
The “problem solving
together” mentality

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Promote design
within the company
Bi-Weekly emails from the design team
- Joel Califa |

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5 point product
roadmap
New ideas → Iterating → Customer wants →
Quality improvement → Build for scale
- Emmet Connolly |

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Write your design
principles
- Emmet Connolly |

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•Make them as subjective as you can
•Base them on experiences you had in
your own organization
•Prioritize them
•Approve them with all teams &
other leaders
Design Principles

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Create team
values
Craft, Humility, Hustle
- Katie Dill |

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Create team
values
Understand, Identify, Execute
- Melissa Hajj |

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Push your designers
to spark emotion
People are not just clicks on a server log
- Bob Baxley |

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Let your team in on
recruiting process
Slack Channel, encryption of text to avoid bias
- Joel Califa |

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Slower hiring
process is better
Better not make mistakes on this stage, and
have a longet process, also for the employee
- Billy Kiely |

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Slower hiring
process is better
Better not make mistakes on this stage, and
have a longet process, also for the employee
- Katie Dill |

39. The Hacking UI Podcast
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So What have I learned?

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When facing a new
challenge, talk to
those who do it best
- Sagi Shrieber

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Create your own
unique routines
Express yourself, create your own style
- Sagi Shrieber

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Kill your fucking ego
every single day
- Sagi Shrieber
Understand who’s success it is

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You need to have
a vision
- Sagi Shrieber

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Be loyal to your
team first
- Sagi Shrieber

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The clouds & the
dirt. Do both.
- Sagi Shrieber

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What made you
happy today?
- Melissa Hajj |

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Thank You!
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