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Currents: REUP This is the right problem to solve (with Eric Bollman)
Category: Arts and Design
Duration: 00:38:32
Publish Date: 2024-11-26 21:30:00
Description:

On this episode throwback, we discuss:

  • Eric's experience running and growing a startup called Perkville in the bay area
  • Creating a culture of mentorship
  • Being a Chief Design Officer of one, and how running a startup helped Eric refine his focus and purpose
  • Eric walks us through the Facebook Groups team, their mission and how they work
  • The importance of "north star" concepts and their ability to help you sell an idea and a vision to your team
  • Why shorter (3 day) sprints can be more effective than 5 day design sprints
  • The "People/Problem" framework at Facebook and how Facebook designers drive the products and determine what to ship
  • The value of diverse job experiences and how working in an agency can help you learn skills to create and sell ideas
  • Having a diverse team of designers gives you awesome collaboration and outcomes.
  • Testing incremental changes get you incremental results, but when you test big bold ideas you can see huge angle changes in your metrics
  • Designers need to get out of their bubbles (most of your users are not like you)
  • Tips on user testing when you don't have real user testing support or funding

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