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Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a designer

2024/8/29
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This week's episode is with Ryan Scott) who was an early designer at Doordash and then spent years as a design lead at Airbnb. Nowadays Ryan teaches hundreds of designers ranging from seniors to VPs how to make a bigger impact at your company.

This episode is jam-packed with insights about:

  • What it’s like presenting at Airbnb CRIT

  • Ways to unlock your credibility as a designer

  • How to mitigate risk when presenting your ideas

  • What it takes to speak the language of the business

  • Types of “PM-y” questions that designers should be asking

  • How Ryan led a massive redesign of the Airbnb booking flow

  • The right (and wrong) way to make a case for investing in UX debt

  • How to talk about your work in a way that resonates with non-designers

  • a lot more

  • Get $100 off of Ryan’s course “Describing the ROI of design)”

  • Ryan’s case study on redesigning the Airbnb checkout flow)

  • Past interview with Alex Schleifer) (Chief Design Officer at Airbnb)