Thursday 4 June | Delivery day
From 0 to scale
Building and transforming design at startups & scale-ups
talk
scaling
How do you set up design for success in a fast-moving startup? And how do you scale it when the company grows?
I’ve tackled both challenges - bootstrapping design as the first hire at an early-stage startup and leading design transformation at a scale-up. In both cases, my playbooks were informed by my time at Google.
I’ll cover:
- Bootstrapping with component libraries to speed up design and engineering
- Tools to build a culture of cross-functional collaboration
- Adapting design systems and processes as the company scales
- Defining and executing a design vision to turn the ship
- Hiring: from making the first design hire to scaling a team
Together, these lessons show how design can move fast and create the foundations needed to scale without losing quality or momentum.
