1. AirBnB - Fantastic leadership and a robust design practice 2. The Home Depot - Tons of opportunity to work on big problems and a fantastic team culture 3. Spotify - One if the most mature design practices and robusta design systems I’ve seen. 4. Zillow - A great place to innovate and think outside the box. 5. Disney - Free Disney World for life 😊
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You’ve already worked at all these places?? Can you give a timeline YOE?
Why Home Depot? That seems like the anomaly on the list….
lolol
They actually picked up a lot of Coca Cola employees and have their own internal design instructors.
Home Depot should be #1 not Airbnb
Any examples of big problems to work on at Home Depot?
I want to hear this too. What exactly are your working on there
The most pressing and consistent issue is the 50 years of legacy software. Outside of that, managing retail and services across stores and online for businesses and consumers comes with a lot of challenges. Heck, selling a hammer is a challenge.
Developer here. Just curious, when yo Lu say robust/mature design practices, what does that mean?
I don’t know about robust. A mature practice means that we have the process and culture nailed down, including a good x-fct collaboration. Usually with a designer in the C-suite as well. The company would also be regarded as having high design standards, influencing the field beyond the company. E.g. conferences, research paper, creating new interactions, open sourcing design systems…
Robust design practice isn't always the best place to be.
I think the best places to make an impact as a designer don’t often makes lists…
Can confirm as a design consultant. Best, high-impact projects are often with the shitshow products and unknown orgs. You can help straighten things out and innovate in pretty significant ways. Orgs with mature design practice can be snoozey and rigid. Of course, there are always exceptions.
Also a design consultant, and what you described might be high-impact in the company but not high-impact overall. You can design and have a ton of impact for unknown orgs and stuff but at the end of the day, the larger companies don’t care because the actual risk often isnt there. Millions/billions of users vs thousands in unknown orgs. In design consulting in my experience, “innovating” often means just looking at what bigger companies are already doing, because unknown org won’t shell out the money to actually spend time on building process or research.
Home Depot rec? 10 YoE TC: 🥜
Definitely Airbnb. Coming from Disney, I wouldn’t recommend. The practice is decent but the x-fct team and culture is toxic. It’s a Studio culture where yelling bullies get promoted.
Hard agree… but the work is really interesting and impactful.
what is x-fct?