Lead roles demand impact, leadership, and influence. But how do you develop these skills?
This book helps you create an actionable plan to get promoted to Lead Designer. Understanding companies expectations, identify your skill gaps, and master the necessary skills.
Understand the role — Learn what skills companies require lead designers to have and what their day-to-day looks like.
Find the gaps — Identify the skills you need to improve to be promoted to a lead designer.
Build a plan — Create an actionable plan for becoming a lead designer based on the successful experiences of others.
Improve the skills — Build the necessary skills for lead roles and get promoted.
I'm a product designer based in Berlin. For the past 14 years I led design at multiple startups, owned a small agency and worked as a freelancer and consultant.
In the last five years I’m building my own products and published three books including the Amazon-best seller “Solving Product Design Exercises”.
The products I built for the design community are used by tens of thousands of designers working at companies like Google, Meta, Airbnb, Netflix and Boeing.
The Path to Senior Product Designer
Knowing every Figma trick doesn’t get you promoted.
Learn 12 skills that do, like mentoring, giving feedback, presenting design, and improving processes.
The book is based on how more than 50 companies evaluate designers and employees, including Etsy, Medium, Dropbox, Square, Figma, Zendesk, Intercom, and Coursera.
Leading and influencing people without having formal authority.
Leading end-to-end large-scale design projects.
Guiding and developing junior designers and peers.
Working effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and marketing.
Introduction to management (Lead roles are managing people at some companies).
Prioritizing tasks and managing time efficiently not just for yourself but for a project with multiple stakeholders.
Strategies for progressing to lead level.
Identifying the skills you should improve to progress to a lead designer.
Planning your lead level promotion.