How to Build Successful Design Teams

Speaker: Julie Kennedy, User Experience Director, Saint- Gobain

An effective design team requires a multitude of diverse skills and it’s impossible for anyone individual to possess them all. How do you go about putting together a team that’s balanced, powerful and can work effectively with other teams? What is the right size and mixture of junior and senior practitioners? What skills, soft and hard; do you need to design and deliver outstanding products and services that support meaningful outcomes? How to best shape, inspire and lead a design team that works together (and stays together).

A team where more experienced practitioners thrive and more junior ones are supported, mentored and enabled to grow. You will leave the talk with tips on leadership, and how to build, motivate, grow and keep your teams happy whether they are designers or not.