In this twelfth episode of the Progression Podcast I'm chatting to Peter Merholz, co-founder of Adaptive Path, long time speaker and blogger on design scaling and co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs (2016).
We get into the weeds on his back story, including learning how to write and speak confidently. We then got onto managing up, down and across, his book and the ethics of design (and a designers' role within it). Finally we got to some listener questions from various Slack channels that I hang out on.
Peter's links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peterme
Peter's blog: https://www.peterme.com/
Org Design for Design Orgs (Amazon) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Org-Design-Orgs-Peter-Merholz/dp/1491938404
Coach, Diplomat, Advocate, Architect. Peter's talk at Leading Design: https://vimeo.com/243666544
Sponsor: Onfido 🙌
This episode is sponsored by Onfido! They're ruddy great, and are looking for a VP design (amongst other interesting design and product roles). Check out their open jobs here: onfido.com/jobs
Want to sponsor an episode, or suggest a guest? Email podcast@makegrow.co to get straight to me.
Me and progression:
twitter.com/jonnyburch
progressionapp.com
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#26 Brian Lovin (Github, Spectrum, Design Details) on the rise of the senior IC
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#24: Jessie Hayes (Whereby, Box) on treating people like a product and keeping frameworks light
#23: Gonçalo Silva (CTO, Doist) on building progression frameworks for a distributed team
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#20: Irene Au (Khosla Ventures, Google) on scaling design teams and practices, scaling yourself and finding your why
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