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0xdesigner
@0xdesigner
i've been many flavors of designer in startups—full-time, part-time, freelancer, agency, and at all levels of the totem pole. i've learned the only way to truly create a design-driven product is to design the org chart. design is culture, not a job.
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links 🏴
@links
Agree, with the proviso that design=product in my orgs. The essence is that the group responsible for delivering value to the user is driving the process. When you work in product-run orgs versus biz-run orgs, you realize only the former can create something truly novel.
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Nico.cast🐱
@n
+1 The ideal structure to give as much control to the design/product team as possible is tiny ground team with a higher up but committed leader, to unblock any pushback
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Alex Palmer
@thatalexpalmer.eth
cc @manansh this is a really good point and we touched on this briefly
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Saumya Saxena
@saxenasaheb
What do you mean design the organisation chart? How does that translate to a design driven product?
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Leonardo
@leonardo
hard agree. the "form" of a product emerges as a Gestalt from the intersection of multiple and different layers. whether or not the outcome is design-driven depends on how those layers intersect, and it's not something that can be superimposed by a "designer"
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You know Conway’s Law? [O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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supriyo
@supriyo.eth
Having been in both designer and founder shoes now, i have seen the counter-side of this play out too. As Designers, we had often harped for a seat at the table for so long that once you actually have one - you forget what it takes to drive change.
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