Designing A Design Team

Presented during Techtalk 2019 – organized by the Fizzbuzz team. Special thanks for Ms. Raquelle Montecillo - Mascariñas and King Montecillo for the invite! 🦄✨

Transcript

1. Designing A Design Team Tips & Tricks From A Design Lead
2. WA Z Z U P F O L K S P R E A M B L E Hello Fizzbuzz! 👋
3. W H O ’ S I N T H E R O O M ? P R E A M B L E
4. W H O ’ S I N T H E R O O M ? P R E A M B L E Designers
5. W H O ’ S I N T H E R O O M ? P R E A M B L E Designers Developers
6. W H O ’ S I N T H E R O O M ? P R E A M B L E Designers Developers Startups
7. N I C E T O M E E T YO U P R E A M B L E Francis Alturas Co-founder @ Abstract Previously, Director of Design @ Symph
18. B E F O R E W E P R O C E E D D I S C L A I M E R
19. B E F O R E W E P R O C E E D D I S C L A I M E R Let’s keep it casual & informal 😎
20. B E F O R E W E P R O C E E D D I S C L A I M E R Take everything with a grain of salt 🧂 Let’s keep it casual & informal 😎
21. B E F O R E W E P R O C E E D D I S C L A I M E R Let’s keep it casual Take everything with a grain of salt
22. How do you design a design team?
23. I N T R O L E T ’ S S TA R T Becoming a Design Leader
24. Design
25. Leader
26. Going back in time
28. Leading Without Title
    - Trial by fire - Help people achieve goals
29. Build Your Team 01
30. Find people with the right balance of technical and soft skills for your team. You need to be searching for talent even when you don’t need it! Find the right organizational structure to make your team productive.
31. Always be on a lookout for great talent
34. Have a framework for team growth
35. designerfund.com/levelup/
36. designerfund.com/levelup/
37. designerfund.com/levelup/
38. Have a framework for individual growth
40. Look before you leap P R O T I P
41. 1) What’s Working? 
 2) What’s Not Working? 3) What should I focus on? 
 1:1s
42. Codify Your Teams Values & Culture P R O T I P
46. Manage 02
    Evaluate each team member’s performance, coach them so they can grow, and minimize conflicts.
48. Evaluate each team member’s performance, coach them so they can grow, and minimize conflicts.
49. 1) Have meetings with reports to help them solve their problems 
 A Design Manager’s Job
50. 1) Have meetings with reports to help them solve their problems 
 2) Share feedback about what is or isn’t going well and 
 A Design Manager’s Job
51. 1) Have meetings with reports to help them solve their problems 
 2) Share feedback about what is or isn’t going well and 3) Figure out who should be promoted and who should be fired 
 A Design Manager’s Job
52. 1) Have meetings with reports to help them solve their problems 
 2) Support members in reaching their career goals, and 3) Create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently 

53. Operationalize 03
56. Keep your team moving efficiently by standardizing the design feedback process, managing projects, and coordinating with other teams.
58. Forge alliances 04
60. Build connections with other team leaders and executives to make sure your team gets what it needs
61. Provide Vision 05
63. Though you’re no longer pushing pixels, you still need to play a central role in crafting a vision for your product and brand
64. I N T R O D E S I G N & L E A D E R S H I P Between Leadership & Management
65. Leadership != Management
66. Management = Leadership
67. Management
68. Management is a specific role, and there are clear principles outlining what a manager does and how his/ her success is measured.
69. Leadership
70. Leadership however, is the particular skill of being able to guide and influence other people.
71. My Focus
75. Purpose
76. People Purpose
77. People Purpose Process
78. Purpose
79. In the Same Boat by Veronika Nedelcu
    “Purpose is our why. Why do we exist, why do we wake up and choose to do this think instead of the other things we could be doing. Why does our work matter?”
80. “Purpose is our why. Why do we exist, why do we wake up and choose to do this think instead of the other things we could be doing. Why does our work matter?”
81. People
82. Gazprombank team by Lana Zorina
    “Purpose is our why. Why do we exist, why do we wake up and choose to do this think instead of the other things we could be doing. Why does our work matter?”
83. I T X i - shaped individuals t - shaped individuals x - shaped individuals
84. Do you have the right people with the right skills? Fill in the gap with each others weaknesses.
85. Process
86. Gazprombank team by Lana Zorina
    How your team works together. You may have a super talented team but cant work together or has no clear understanding of what the end goals are.
87. How your team works together. You may have a super talented team but cant work together or has no clear understanding of what the end goals are.
88. People Purpose Process
89. People Why Process
90. Who Why Process
91. Who Why How
92. Great managers constantly ask themselves how she can influence these levers to improve the team's outcomes.
93. You’re No Longer Playing An Instrument
94. You’re No Longer Playing An Instrument Now, You’re Playing The Orchestra
95. What Got You Here Wont Get You There
    “You’ll need to cultivate an entirely new set of skills to be an effective design leader, is about making big career transitions, and will give you the guidance you need as you make the leap from an individual contributor to a leader in your organization.
96. You Will Never Be 100% Ready
97. Not everyone 
 can be a leader *and that’s okay
98. But a great leader can come from anyone.
    Great leaders are made. Not born. However there is a caveat -you have to enjoy the day-to-day of management and want to do it.
100. Roleplay Q&A Open Discussion
101. N I C E T O M E E T YO U Francis Alturas Co-founder @ Abstract Previously, Director of Design @ Symph O U T R O
102. A B S T R A C T D E S I G N C O . O U T R O Thank you! 🔥