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New Manager Career Deep Dive
New Manager Career Deep Dive
Discussion and activity guides to help managers onboarding and inheriting new direct reports. Try these activities that go beyond question…
Nina Mehta
Sep 9, 2022
Working with Nina
Working with Nina
my design leadership goals
Nina Mehta
Apr 10, 2019
Designer Career Mapping
Designer Career Mapping
What do you want to do in 5 years? What about 15 years? This question is hard because technology, industries, and what’s possible changes…
Nina Mehta
Dec 24, 2018
How to Start Writing
How to Start Writing
Ditch your laundry list of topics you want to write about. Ignore all the outlines you started months, nay, years ago. They’ll be useful…
Nina Mehta
Aug 11, 2017
The Easiest Book Club
The Easiest Book Club
I love work book clubs! They help me stay motivated, show me new perspectives, and create a shared point of view to reference in my working…
Nina Mehta
Jul 30, 2017
5 ways design managers can nurture growth outside the levels
5 ways design managers can nurture growth outside the levels
It’s easy, and even normal, to think happiness comes from winning. But the point of playing games is for fun. Winning or losing is just the…
Nina Mehta
Mar 8, 2017
Managing growth: run a lightning round of feedback
Managing growth: run a lightning round of feedback
Short iteration loops are just as essential for your designers as it is for the products they design. Frequent, kind, and actionable…
Nina Mehta
Jun 30, 2016
Advocating for your designers to the business
Advocating for your designers to the business
A design leader lives in two worlds: product design and the business. It’s your job to mediate when the needs of designers and the needs of…
Nina Mehta
Apr 23, 2016
The very first one-on-one
The very first one-on-one
Setting up your new design hire for success
Nina Mehta
Mar 5, 2016
Work: how to get it when you haven’t done it
Work: how to get it when you haven’t done it
The beginning of a design career is so hard. You have good taste, huge potential, and you’re even scoring a few exciting interviews where…
Nina Mehta
Dec 8, 2015
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