You are the problem

As designers we often find ourselves being frustrated and feeling unheard. The struggle to “get a seat at the table” seems to be widespread. Why is this? Is it simply that product people don’t listen and tech people don’t care about users? Or that business people think they k...

Designing change: How to lead your team through change and come out stronger

As Design Leaders, it’s very rare that we get the opportunity to build a team from the ground up. For the majority of us, we inherit a pre-existing team. Often, these teams may need to undergo change to be successful.

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Going public - the impact on design leaders

As a Head of Product Design at Bumble Inc, the period following successful IPO was always going to be a challenge. Dealing with additional demands on the business and company performance, pressures to grow the team quickly and expanding design operatio...

The value of design (that's more than just business)

Design has a seat at the table now, but what do you say? What do you stand up for? Are we really there just to make the business metric grow through experience efficiencies, or is the value of design to make the business stand for something ot...

When dinosaurs go digital

In this talk Sedef shares her experience of navigating change within large public sector organisations like the Natural History Museum. She shares the opportunities in transforming a large organisation to a customer focused culture, a few of the challenges and gives tip...

A geography of time – why it matters when leading globally

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London 2022. Find out more about the event details here - https://leadingdesign.com/conferences/london-2022

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Crafting a north star vision while building a UX team from scratch

In 2021, YouTube set up a new business and product area focused on Shopping, and Iram was brought on to hire and lead the design team. Despite being an early stage start-up the team sit within a scaled, mature entity.

In this ta...

Building team culture & XFN partnerships in a remote world

With the impact of COVID-19, remote work model is something a lot of us switched to over the last 2+ years and in many cases is here to stay. Building a team culture, connections, collaboration, and a sense of belonging in a remote world...

Adapt or die: Leading at speed into the unknown

From Moneyball to Topgun, Socrates to Elvis. Clearleft's very own Chris Pearce takes us on a romp through the accelerating power of purpose, closing the expectation gap and lowering everyones anxiety.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London ...

An unlikely path to finding purpose through ethical leadership

Designers often find themselves at a fork in the road between ethical design and design that’s good for business. We’re often alone in the room fighting for the user, which can not only be challenging, but leave the role feeling misu...

Accountability in design leadership: What can I do when things don’t feel right?

Unethical design? What can I do?

There is a critical lens over digital products and services with the fallout from unsafe and unethical experiences in our digital world coming into focus. Many designers and makers ...

Finding yourself in times of shifting landscapes

Mergers, so many of us lived them, and so many of us can relate. One company acquires another company and you, in the middle, thinking of what's next. Change, especially when not occurring by own choice, is so difficult to embrace. In her talk, Al...

Quiet leadership and leading authentically

As an industry, our leadership is more diverse than ever before. With that, comes a diversification of styles, as individuals bring their own unique approaches to leadership and challenge our preconceptions of how a successful leader acts.

Leaders who ...

Creativity, imagination and play

Play is for everyone, everywhere; it enables a flow state that keeps focus, ownership and creativity. Discover how to inspire leadership and design with play to build creative confidence, ignite imagination, create an environment for physiological safety and pave...

To the future, stronger together

As we emerge from the unprecedented challenges, as leaders we need to evolve, strengthen our teams and our support network

The impact of design is growing and the demand for design talent is increasing. We see more designers rising to leadership roles. We see ma...

Leading Design's curator Rebecca Groves leads some of our speakers in a reflection on the talks from day one of the conference. With Sedef Gavaz, Ray Ho, Iram Mirza and Jane Austin.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London 2022. Find out more about the event details here - https://leadingde...

Leading Design's curator Rebecca Groves leads some of our speakers in a reflection on the talks from day one of the conference. With James Stevens, Alberta Soranzo, Dana Bright & Oliver Eliel.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London 2022. Find out more about the event details here - https:...

Leading Design's curator Rebecca Groves leads some of our speakers in a reflection on the talks from day two of the conference. With Holly Habstritt Gaal, Lisa Welchman & Jose Coronado.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London 2022. Find out more about the event details here - https://leadi...

Leading Design's curator Rebecca Groves leads some of our speakers in a reflection on the talks from day two of the conference. With Aleks Melnikova, Nicola Ryan, Chris Pearce & Jill Lin.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London 2022. Find out more about the event details here - https://lea...