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Leading Design
Looking at the challenges and opportunities of design leadership in all its forms
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Looking at the challenges and opportunities of design leadership in all its forms

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Andy Budd
Design Founder, speaker, start-up advisor & coach. @Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly @Clearleft @LDConf & @UXLondon . Trainee Pilot. Ex shark-wrangler.
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Clearleft
Clearleft is a strategic design studio helping you get the most from your products, services & teams.
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LeadingDesignConf
Bringing design leaders together. Editor of Leading Design: https://medium.com/leading-design
Writers
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Andy Budd
Design Founder, speaker, start-up advisor & coach. @Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly @Clearleft @LDConf & @UXLondon . Trainee Pilot. Ex shark-wrangler.
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Stephen Gates
Head Design Evangelist at @InVisionApp. International keynote speaker. Host of The Crazy One podcast.
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Aarron Walter
Author of Designing for Emotion, second edition from @abookapart. VP of Design Publishing @InVisionapp.
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Leah Buley
Director of Design Education at InVision and author of the book The User Experience Team of One
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Dereck Johnson
Design leader, photographer, artist, petrolhead and cyclist. All miss-spellings and half baked thoughts are my own.
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Cameron Moll
Leadership + Design ᴇᴛᴅ 1999. Meta alumni. Authentic Jobs (acquired). Teller of fine dad jokes.
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farai madzima
Farai Madzima. UX Guy. Dad. Public Speaker. Jo'burger . Husband. Geek. Writer of code
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Tom Prior
I design digital products & lead design teams — www.thomasprior.co.uk
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Hannah Donovan
Founder & CEO @thetrashapp. My background is in design and product management.
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Jane Austin
Director of Design and UX
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Kim Goodwin
Author of Designing for the Digital Age. UX & product executive. Consultant. Researcher. Designer. Teacher. Wildlife photographer.
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Cap Watkins
Leadership coach and organizational consultant at @practical_works. Prev: VP of Design@BuzzFeed. Also worked at Etsy, Amazon, and a bunch of failed startups :)
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Catherine Courage
VP, User Experience @ Google. Passionate design leader.
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Nick Marsh
Design + Products @Wonderbly. Optimistic.
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Margaret Lee
Leadership Coach. Past: UX Director and founder of Google's Community & Culture program. Featured interview: https://t.co/gBQYvaiO7F
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Todd Zaki Warfel
Executive leadership coach. Speaker. Author.
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Rochelle King
Inconsistent tweeter, excellent late night baker. VP Product Design & Insights @spotify, Board Member Center for Justice & Accountability, formerly @netflix
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Stuart Frisby
Director of Design at Deliveroo
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Khoi Vinh
Leading the design team building Adobe XD. Host of the design podcast Wireframe. Writing on design, tech and culture at Subtraction.com.
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Whitney Hess
Coach, writer, and designer putting humanity back into business. I believe empathy builds empires. https://whitneyhess.com/
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Kara Fitzpatrick
Fiercely fights for the underdog • Past: Sr. Advisor, Biden White House; Chief of Staff, Intuit • Obama White House; Women’s World Cup; Oscars; TEDxIntuit
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Rachel McConnell
Content and design leader. Found of Tempo. Author of Leading Content Design and Why you Need a Content Team and How to Build One
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Emma Boulton
Research Leadership, Research Ops, Design, Tech. Currently @Waitrose Digital Previously @Meta, @Babylon Health.
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Richard Rutter
Cofounder of @clearleft, author of @WebTypography, designer of digital things. Please patronise responsibly.
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Jason Mesut
I help people and organizations navigate their uncertain futures. Through coaching, futures, design and innovation consulting.
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Dean Vipond
Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer @NHSDigital and lots of other things. He/Him. http://www.deanvipond.com
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David Gillis
Design @Meta , where I work on product safety, integrity, support and social impact. Previously @teehanlax
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Joshua Sortino
Design Director at Square. @sortino http://sortino.co
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Christine Pizzo
Director of Design at @Intpd. @VCUBrandcenter XD Alum. Moto babe & yeti dog owner.
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Ben Holliday
Designer and leader. Working with organisations and teams to deliver great products and services / also find me at benholliday.com
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Matthew Godfrey
Head of Product Design
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Scott Berkun
Bestselling Author of The Myths of Innovation, Making things Happen, Confessions of a Public Speaker and other fine books
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Kate Aronowitz
Design Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures)
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maritoruiz
Practice Director, Business Technology Innovation @ Salesforce
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Ryan Martin
Product Designer working at @zendesk-creative-blog, based in Melbourne, Australia. Portfolio: www.ryanmartin.design
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Kaycee A Collins 🤓
Experience Design Leader | Human-Centered Design Coaching, Facilitation, + Consulting
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Leslie Yang
Head of Design for Lyft Business, previously @OpenTable and @PivotalLabs. Writing about working better together on teams.