Absent, ungrounded, or unstructured feedback can be a destructive force not just for our work, but also for the lasting negative morale consequences in a team. Also, if we don’t know how really good feedback looks like we’ll always assume things are 'good enough' and never push to improve.

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As the VP of Design, Digital Media at Adobe, Eric Snowden manages a multidisciplinary team of designers responsible for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud applications and services. In the more than eight years Eric has been with Adobe, he has gone from leading design for Creative Cloud Mobile to ...

Design teams are rife with burnout, low morale and inefficiencies. These unhealthy and unsustainable practices lead to negative cultures and high turnover. From hiring and setting up your team to how you handle conflict, running a design team is a marathon, not a sprint. In this talk, Eric discus...

Most people stumble into the right conditions for high personal growth once or twice in their career. When this happens, the magic is undeniable: you are deeply challenged, but you feel your brain expand and your abilities grow – and that fulfillment enables you to face adversity and achieve new ...

How can we design leaders make great decisions? One good way is to draw on our richest resource: our team.

Our team’s members benefit from being included in the decision making process. They typically feel more motivated, engaged and empowered as a result. This can encourage them to stay with yo...

"A very common question I get, whether at a conference, on a panel or even from people I work with at BuzzFeed, is what my day-to-day work is like as a VP of Design. Since no one week or day is exactly the same, I've historically had trouble answering this question. No more!" - Cap Watkins

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