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Ryan Lucas discusses the importance of design leadership and the principles that guide effective design management.

In the second Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Ryan Lucas, VP of Design at Rippling. Before Rippling, Ryan led design at Retool and co-founded multiple startups, bringing a rare founder's perspective to design leadership. A trained industrial designer, Ryan traces the roots of modern software design back 2,000 years to make the case that products must be useful, usable, and desirable - and above all, used. In today's episode, we discuss: Why design leaders who stop designing stop leading The four pillars every design manager must master How to delegate when you're a perfectionist Why leaders need strong opinions How to scale good judgment What Rippling's operating system teaches about speed and commitments References: Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/ Apple: https://www.apple.com/ Asana: https://www.asana.com/ Brian Chesky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianchesky/ CrossFit: https://www.crossfit.com/ Figma: https://www.figma.com/ Honeywell: https://www.honeywell.com/ Liz Sanders: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandersliz/ Nest: https://store.google.com/category/google_nest Notion: https://www.notion.so/ Parker Conrad…

People in this episode

Host: Brett

Guest: Ryan Lucas

Topics covered

• design leadership
• software design
• delegation
• judgment
• operating systems

Keywords

• design
• leadership
• delegation
• judgment
• software
• Rippling
• Figma
• operating systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rippling, Retool, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Asana, CrossFit, Figma, Honeywell, Nest

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