Top 10 Design Leadership Challenges
As part of my masterclasses of the 2025 Leadership Ateliers in Lisbon and Berlin, we ran a live, interactive session with 73 design leaders to surface the most pressing leadership challenges they face.
Benchmark your Design Team
As part of my research, I’ve been diving into the topic of how you can benchmark your design team. After all having a solid understanding of your status-quo is necessary to know where you should improve.
Book Review: Design Leadership Chronicles
When I first picked up Marzia Aricò’s recent book Design Leadership Chronicles, I was intrigued by its unique format—a graphic novel exploring design leadership through case studies. I was curious to see how she’d translate complex leadership topics into a visual narrative. Spoiler: it works surprisingly well.
A Strategy for Your Design Team
Leading a design team is a complex, multifacetted task. The Design Leadership Framework describes five key areas that design leaders have to address to build a company’s design capability: Strategy, Experience, Operations, Enterprise and Team. In this article we will take a closer look at the area of Strategy.
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