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Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a designer
Episode 69

Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a designer

Dive Club 🤿 · Ridd

August 29, 20241h 6m

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Show Notes

This week's episode is with Ryan Scott who was an early designer at Doordash and then spent years as a design lead at Airbnb. Nowadays Ryan teaches hundreds of designers ranging from seniors to VPs how to make a bigger impact at your company.

This episode is jam-packed with insights about:

  • What it’s like presenting at Airbnb CRIT
  • Ways to unlock your credibility as a designer
  • How to mitigate risk when presenting your ideas
  • What it takes to speak the language of the business
  • Types of “PM-y” questions that designers should be asking
  • How Ryan led a massive redesign of the Airbnb booking flow
  • The right (and wrong) way to make a case for investing in UX debt
  • How to talk about your work in a way that resonates with non-designers
  • a lot more