heading level 3 link DESIGN BETTER heading level 3 link SUBSCRIBE link graphic Design Better Logo table with 62 rows and 3 columns row 1 column 1 through 3 If your company was co founded by a designer, like Evan Sharp at Pinterest, you might think that design culture would spread naturally through the company as it grew. While it might seem that way from an outsider's perspective, insiders know that it takes a lot of effort to onboard and educate new employees about design process and design thinking. Additionally, extensive support for the design team is needed as it scales. In this conversation, we learn from Kim Fellman, Design Experience Lead at Pinterest, about how her team helps spread a designer's mindset across the company, and how they operationalize design as their teams continue to grow. row 2 row 3 row 4 column 1 link graphic Kim Fellman Design Experience Lead at Pinterest column 2 column 3 heading level 4 Kim Fellman Design Experience Lead at Pinterest graphic image (2) row 5 column 1 through 3 row 6 Eli Woolery: Could you tell us about your role and about the new design experience team at Pinterest? row 7 row 8 Kim Fellman: For sure. We're focused on helping our world class team of design professionals do their best work and build off of each other. We consider what the end to end experience of being on this team is, from how you're onboarded, planning for your career, staying inspired, and learning new things. row 9 row 10 Eli: How do you integrate the design experience team with the larger design ops team? row 11 row 12 Kim: We are part of the design ops org, with program managers working on product focused programs or the design experience. We integrate really closely with all of our program managers. I think those who have worked with producers or program managers know that they're the GPS of every project. They are closest to the work, they know where misalignments are happening, where people might need to feel more inspired or grow. For a team like mine that focuses on culture and morale and development, working really closely with our design ops team is invaluable because we know what teams need and value often before they do because of that partnership. row 13 row 14 link click upn equals 3rf VBQB 2F 7CD Andpy 35… row 15 row 16 Eli: What are some of the early wins that you're seeing from the creation of this team? row 17 row 18 Kim: When we got started we focused on two things: inspiring cultural programs and then the critical programs for the way that we work. One early win is onboarding thinking about how we onboard new people to the product design team, and also how we onboard new folks who are cross functional partners to work with design. We had a lot of different onboarding documents over time that were kind of bespoke for each team. Design wasn't part of company onboarding so over the past few months, we have worked to create an entire suite of documentation that's standardized for our team, customizable. Our program manager Mia Ketterling runs that program and is doing an awesome job getting people on the right foot, and then we also just reintroduced product design into company wide onboarding to help new hires understand what Design does and how to work with us. I would say another win is just a lot of really great cultural programs. When we started this team, Mia and I went out and did a huge listening tour, trying to get a lot of qualitative data about what people wanted. row 19 row 20 link click upn equals 3rf VBQB 2F 7CD Andpy 35… row 21 row 22 They said, We want to feel inspired. We want to hear interesting people come in and talk. And we want to learn how other teams function and stay creative. We kicked off the speaker series where we've brought in a lot of really interesting people to give inspirational lunchtime talks. We've had Kelly Anderson, Jess Burrows, Scott Dadich, Josh Brewer, Ryan Germick, Max Temkin, Ellen Lupton. Last year, we had a really amazing all female team of designers from link Anxy Magazine come in and talk to us about how they create their magazines. Last summer we also held our first Design Camp. row 23 row 24 link Keep reading the conversation row 25 row 26 row 27 heading level 2 Prototyping the Design Experience with Eliel Johnson at Charles Schwab row 28 row 29 link click upn equals 3rf VBQB 2F 7CD Andpy 35… row 30 row 31 Prototyping is a powerful tool for building better product experiences. It can also be one of the most impactful ways to win the hearts and minds of internal company executives who can support design teams' resourcing needs. Watch as Eliel Johnson, VP and Head of UX Design and Research at Charles Schwab, talks about the power of the prototype and how it can motivate executives to invest in product experiences. row 32 row 33 link Watch the video here row 34 row 35 row 36 heading level 2 Leadership Tips row 37 row 38 The value of OK Rs is in communicating the intention of the organization so that individuals can exercise their own judgments to move in that direction. row 39 row 40 graphic Irene Au Design Partner at Khosla Ventures heading level 4 Irene Au Design Partner at Khosla Ventures row 41 row 42 link Read more advice from Irene Au row 43 row 44 row 45 heading level 2 Weekly Roundup row 46 list with 8 items black square link Learn the Fundamentals of OK Rs black square link Building the Case for a Redesign with Glassdoor black square link Jake Knapp on What's Better Than Productivity black square link How to Work Effectively with Engineers from Dropbox black square link Building Connection at Design Leadership Camp 2020 in Palm Springs black square link Empathy at Work with Jehad Affoneh from V Mware Design black square link A Year of Working Remotely by Mike Davidson from In Vision black square link We're Listening To: Pivot Podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway out of list row 47 row 48 row 49 heading level 2 Designing Across the Seams with Lori Kaplan on the Design Better Podcast row 50 row 51 link click upn equals 3rf VBQB 2F 7CD Andpy 35… row 52 row 53 Lori Kaplan is a veteran design leader, whose pioneering work includes authorship of the original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines in the 1980s. 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