Design To Be Conversation artwork

Lara Mendonça: Creating accountable trusting relationships and design decisions

Design To Be Conversation

English - February 02, 2021 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Design Arts Business Careers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed


Lara Mendonça is a Brazilian design leader. She's the Head of Product Design at Bumble in London, where she's growing a diverse team of product and content designers, developing a new creative vision, maturing design operations, and evolving a product loved by millions.

In this episode, we dive into her learnings from working at a dating company, how to manage relationship conflict, how to build trusting relationships, having accountability for design decisions, the importance of psychological safety, and much more.