Progression Podcast

Todd is a Design leader, leadership coach and lifelong learner. He recently released findings from a survey of over 800 design teams globally, with a focus on career growth and team health.We dive into his findings- getting through everything from hiring to attrition and the relative importance of different factors in someone's decision to leave. And the results are interesting: it turns out that 35% of people list lack of career growth as their reason for leaving a company, but under 4% of design teams have a progression framework.We also dig into some of the stats around progression frameworks – when do companies roll them out and when should you start considering one for your team.Enjoy!Todd online:On Twitter: https://twitter.com/zakiwarfelTodd's site: http://zakiwarfel.comThe report: http://zakiwarfel.com/dci-report/His great talk at Leading Design last year: https://vimeo.com/297967955ProgressionGet your waitlist spot at progressionapp.com (we're going into Beta now so many more invites coming soon)Me and progression:twitter.com/jonnyburchprogressionapp.com

Sana Rao was born in India, educated at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and spent 4 years at Twitter designing a bunch of the mobile experience we use today. She's now Interim Head of Experience at Deliveroo, working out how to support the designers, researchers and content writers on their journey with the company as it grows.Sana has taken huge risks, experienced twitter abuse, seen companies successfully improve diversity and has a fascinating story of her career to date. She's also a great friend and really interesting person! Sana's links:Sana on twitter: https://twitter.com/sanaraoRedesigning the content research and design org on Medium: https://medium.com/deliveroo-design/redesigning-the-content-research-design-org-50a204425b5cCourse materials from SVA: https://postindustrialdesign.school/#resourcesSVA: http://www.sva.eduSponsor: Progression (har har)This episode is sponsored by Progression, because why the hell not. Get your waitlist spot at progressionapp.com (we're going into Beta now so many more invites coming soon)(A real sponsor will be back next episode)Me and progression:twitter.com/jonnyburchprogressionapp.com

In this twelfth episode of the Progression Podcast I'm chatting to Peter Merholz, co-founder of Adaptive Path, long time speaker and blogger on design scaling and co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs (2016).We get into the weeds on his back story, including learning how to write and speak confidently. We then got onto managing up, down and across, his book and the ethics of design (and a designers' role within it). Finally we got to some listener questions from various Slack channels that I hang out on.Peter's links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/petermePeter's blog: https://www.peterme.com/Org Design for Design Orgs (Amazon) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Org-Design-Orgs-Peter-Merholz/dp/1491938404Coach, Diplomat, Advocate, Architect. Peter's talk at Leading Design: https://vimeo.com/243666544Sponsor: Onfido 🙌This episode is sponsored by Onfido! They're ruddy great, and are looking for a VP design (amongst other interesting design and product roles). Check out their open jobs here: onfido.com/jobsWant to sponsor an episode, or suggest a guest? Email podcast@makegrow.co to get straight to me.Me and progression:twitter.com/jonnyburchprogressionapp.com

In this episode I'm talking to Braden Kowitz, an SF based designer and founder.Braden's work has been hugely impactful on how we design today through his work on the Sprint book at Google Ventures. But his journey has also been an interesting one, leading from Google to working with startups to founding his own, Range.We talk about finding meaningful work, bucking the trend of an expected design career, the dangers of a rigid ladder in a small team and much more.Braden's LinksRange: https://www.range.co/Braden's personal site: https://kowitz.co/Braden on twitter: https://twitter.com/kowitzThe Sprint Book: https://www.thesprintbook.com/Sponsor: Onfido 🙌This episode is sponsored by Onfido! They're ruddy great, and are looking for a VP design (amongst other interesting design and product roles). Check out their open jobs here: onfido.com/jobsWant to sponsor an episode, or suggest a guest? Email podcast@makegrow.co to get straight to me.Me and progression:twitter.com/jonnyburchprogressionapp.com

Jasmine Friedl is now Director of Design at Intercom in San Francisco, but has had an interesting, varied career, learning her trade at Facebook before some time at Udacity amongst others. We talked about deliberately choosing a career that's right for you, learning from bad experiences, being lonely at the top, thoughtful leadership, privilege  and much much more.Links from the episodeBad decisions and wrong turns: one girls guide to career success:https://medium.com/@jazzy33ca/bad-decisions-and-wrong-turns-one-girls-guide-to-career-success-3865d874c847Women at Intercom microsite:https://women.intercom.com/Find Jasmine at:https://twitter.com/jazzy33caSponsor: Onfido are great 🙌This episode is sponsored by Onfido! They're ruddy great, and are looking for a design ops person (amongst other interesting design and product roles). Check out their open jobs here: onfido.com/jobsWant to sponsor an episode, or suggest a guest? Email podcast@makegrow.co to get straight to me.Me and progression:twitter.com/jonnyburchprogressionapp.com

Back in January I chatted to Kevin Goldsmith, a very experienced technical leader with background at companies including Microsoft, Adobe, Spotify and more. He was at Spotify when they evolved their org, witnessing and helping to shape the 'Spotify model' which has now found so much popularity in teams around the world.It's taken me ages to get this episode out, but it's a real corker for anyone thinking about scaling a team in tech. There's loads of lessons learned around parallel tracks, consensus-driven org decisions, managing a rollout of career progression in a company which had grown crazy fast with nothing and much, much more. Enjoy!Links from the episodeKevin on Conway's law (podcast):http://www.se-radio.net/2018/07/se-radio-episode-331-kevin-goldsmith-on-architecture-and-organizational-design/The Spotify careers documentation:https://labs.spotify.com/2016/02/15/spotify-technology-career-steps/Kevin's current gig, Astrum U:https://www.astrumu.com/Find Kevin at:https://www.kevingoldsmith.com/https://twitter.com/KevinGoldsmithSponsor: Onfido are great 🙌This episode is sponsored by Onfido! They're ruddy great, and are looking for a design ops person (amongst other interesting design and product roles). Check out their open jobs here: onfido.com/jobsWant to sponsor an episode, or suggest a guest? Email podcast@makegrow.co to get straight to me.Me and progression:twitter.com/jonnyburchprogressionapp.com

Mills is kind of a legend of the London product and agency scene and co-founder and cultural hub of ustwo, the company behind (amongst others) the multi-award-winning game Monument Valley. Ustwo are now huge, with offices in several countries around the world and hundreds of employees, but 15 years ago Mills and Sinx, (the other one in us'two') didn't know what the hell they were doing.Mills is now on his own journey of self discovery. We talk about what it means to have a good career, to build a business you want to work for, to find happiness and to recognise the need for change in order to get there.Apologies for some wobbly sound, sirens and bumps - I wanted to get this pod out there in true JFDI (Just Fucking Do It, the name of Mills's pod) style.Sponsor the pod!I'm looking for sponsors for this podcast! I have a small but growing audience of designers and design leaders who may be looking for a new gig, or some new tools. So get in front of them for an absolute bargain basement price by emailing me at podcast@makegrow.co.Mills:https://twitter.com/millsustwohttps://soundcloud.com/thejfdicasthttps://www.ustwo.com/Jonny:https://twitter.com/jonnyburchhttp://progressionapp.com

First podcast of the year! Took long enough...Jonny and Austin chat about their upcoming workshop – a collaboration with General Assembly – for designers of all stripes to introspect about their design careers and set better goals.Our first workshop is on the 14th of February, in London. Only 25 tickets total, grab yours (or gift to someone in your team) sharpish.  jams.progressionapp.com------Us:Jonny: twitter.com/jonnyburchAustin: twitter.com/austinkeeble

This week I'm on the pod with Jason Mesut, designer and mapper of design skills. We get into both his work over the last decade in mapping the shapes of designer across multiple companies, balancing family and being a designer, and being vulnerable online (and making mistakes in public).As we know each other a bit, we glossed over some of the details of what we were talking about, so there's a list of useful links below to help you out.The original design shapes article from a couple of years ago:https://medium.com/amplify-design/shapes-of-ux-designer-ad047bddac7f*That* linkedin post:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6473433530352304128Jason on Medium:https://medium.com/@jasonmesutShaping design (Jason's recent December series): https://medium.com/shapingdesignResonant Design (Jason's company):resdesin.comJason on the socials:twitter.com/jasonmesutlinkedin.com/in/jasonmesut**Please do leave this podcast a review on iTunes - it helps other people find me!**Find me at:twitter.com/jonnyburchmakegrow.coprogressionapp.com

This week I chatted to Lauren Currie OBE, a service designer, blogger, passionate advocate of social issues, and managing director of NOBL here in the UK, as well as Bud Caddell, the founder of the California based organisational design consultancy.We tackle a couple of meaty topics around diversity - how can we as an industry better empathise with and improve diversity in the workplace? Plus we get to hear about the inner machinations of NOBL and the other projects that Lauren is working on.**Please do leave this podcast a review on iTunes - it helps other people find me!**Find Lauren and Bud at:twitter.com/redjotterredjotter.comtwitter.com/bud_caddellbudcaddell.comAnd NOBL at:twitter.com/workNOBLnobl.ioLauren's other projects that we discussed:weareupfront.compregnantthenscrewed.comFind me at:twitter.com/jonnyburchmakegrow.coprogressionpack.com