đŠâđ¨ Dovetail's Head Of Design Lucy Denton, on design thinking, lessons from Atlassian, the âsacred ritualsâ of Dovetailâs design team, and so much more
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â¤ď¸âđĽEpisode 6, Season 4
âShip less, but betterâ, with Lucy Denton, Head of Design at Dovetail
â Lessons from working at Atlassian
â Detention & Sparring: âsacred ritualsâ of Dovetailâs design team
â Balancing product simplicity with new features
â Design thinking & the âdouble diamondâ framework
Dovetail is on a mission to help the world improve the quality of everything. Dovetailâs customer insights hub allows teams to quickly analyse research data and share insights collaboratively, helping thousands of teams build better products by helping them understand their customers.
Episode Highlights from Lucy:
âEverything is a design problem! Itâs just a way to solve problems.â
âWe have a few rituals that are sacred to the design team. One we call Design Detention, and the other is Design Sparring⌠Theyâre two pretty standard rituals that a lot of design teams have, usually theyâre called collaboration & critique.â
âWe have a ratio of about 1 designer to 6 engineers, and that feels like a good ratio for us. At Atlassian I think it was 1 designer to 8 engineers⌠so it just depends on the company culture and how fast the engineers move.â
âOnce you have a product and you have users, you get so many feature requests, and itâs really easy to just build everything that everyone asks you to build. But you have to be quite thoughtful about what problem that is solving, how does that fit into your existing feature set?â
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