Slowing Down To Scale Design
summary
Creates a reproducible “design mother dough” that incubates 55+ designers over 17 months through concrete experiments: 1.5‑hour camping critic sessions, bookable 30–120 minute research clinics, a 4–8 week roaming coach embedded model, and a non‑negotiable three‑study coaching loop that locks learning. Builds a hybrid “dojo” team (coaches + enablers), measures shifts with pre/post confidence surveys and written reflections, awards tiny “ChaCha” certs, and reports qualitative wins — two people crying after seven months as evidence of growing psychological safety.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:43Graphtec
- 3:38Slowing Down
- 5:50The Hustle
- 10:01Design Rigger
- 11:14Teams
- 15:50Start Small
- 16:24SelfAwareness
- 23:10Superhero
- 23:34Its Not Enough
- 25:16New Team
- 27:31Measuring Glue
- 30:57Conclusion
- 31:27Questions
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