Jon Delman: Navigate failure with kindness and curiosity

In today’s episode, I speak with Jon Delman. Jon is a Director of Product Design at Twitter in San Francisco. He works within the design and research team focused on internal tools and product solutions. Jon offers tactical advice for young designers on how to approach learning by embracing the courage to fail through his article, Let it be a lesson to you, on Medium. He has over 20 years of professional design experience in both agency and in-house environments, working with brands such as Google, Apple, Splunk, and Samsung. Previously, he worked as Executive Creative Director at ueno, Group Creative Director at Beyond, and a Creative Director at Huge.  

We dive into how to develop the courage to fail while also how to learn through failures to design your success, how you can weave more kindness and curiosity into your work through joyful relationships with others and yourself, as well as actionable ways to pursue greater learning by acknowledging when you fail and how to embrace your most authentic self.