State of Design Leadership
summary
Claims land in specifics not slogans: teams run experiments and write hypotheses to de‑risk the product, user research cuts project lists from 500 apps to 30 at Transport for London, coaches and reverse mentoring are paid or arranged through BetterUp, weekly “retro” emails and a principal designer role are put in to preserve craft, and designers get embedded in pods with measurable outcomes. Watch if the talk explains the exact experiments, metrics, timeline and who built the principal‑designer function — otherwise skip.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:40Introductions
- 3:34The State of Design Leadership
- 13:33Take a Risk
- 19:01Strategic Ignorance
- 22:39How Are You Investing in Your Own Education in Your Own Learning
- 23:38Reverse Mentoring
- 24:28Definition of Reverse Mentoring
- 34:39Imposter Syndrome
- 39:19Intended Outcomes
- 51:19Qa
- 55:49Challenges
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