Hustle: The Different Flavors of Design Management (Brian Peterson, Affirm)
"As a design manager, I look for messy areas that allow for a lot of ripe opportunities for me to experiment and change things. A company with a good mess means that the landscape is there for people to try things and change bits."
The Funsize Show · Tony Sanchez, Brian Peterson, Anthony Armendariz
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Show Notes
Brian Peterson is a a multidisciplinary creator supporting, connecting, and empowering organizations through strategic design. Brian’s background is in fine arts with a brief stint in animation/illustration. His path to design has taken him through freelance visual design, to a founding team startup, to the design studio at Funsize. Currently, he leads design teams at Affirm, where he works to bring honest financial products to the world.
Brian is a strong believer in collaboration and he sees design as a vehicle for connecting people and transforming organizations. When not thinking about design management, operations, methodologies, etc., Brian likes to build worlds through drawing.
In this episode we cover:
- Design management
- Individual contributors
- Growth
- Management
- Design operations
- Leveling up
- And more!