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So you wanna be a design manager?

Motivations & realities on the journey from lead to manager — I’ve been managing designers, design managers, and design teams for more than 10 years now. Unlike many people in my field moving into management was a purposeful and intentional decision. Many things make being a design manager an amazing and rewarding experience. The ability to see across many portfolios and…

Careers

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So you want to be a design manager?
So you want to be a design manager?
Careers

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Published in UX Collective

·Jul 29, 2021

Making time, not work — the design manager journey

How to optimize your time (and calendar!) to be happier & more effective at work — Work is never-ending, there will always be more work, the second your finish one meeting, project, or task, there will be another waiting, and if there isn’t you’ll find one or make one up. It took me years to get to where I am now with calendar management, and it’s…

Work Life Balance

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Making time, not work — the design manager journey
Making time, not work — the design manager journey
Work Life Balance

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Published in UX Collective

·Updated May 31, 2021

Writing your accomplishments with clarity & impact

Self-assessments & promo statements that get results for you and your team. — Why write self-assessments at all? For many people, writing a self-assessment is part of their reoccurring performance review process, but did anyone ever actually teach you how to do it? Writing about your own accomplishments can be difficult for a multitude of reasons. You don’t remember all the things you did, you don’t know what…

Self Improvement

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Writing your accomplishments with clarity & impact
Writing your accomplishments with clarity & impact
Self Improvement

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Published in UX Collective

·May 25, 2021

Scaling team rituals to grow with design organizations

Growing your processes, not just your team — I’ve managed teams between 5 to over 50 people, grown teams from zero to 20 in less than a year, and manage project portfolios that were a single tightly related product with a small number of features to a monolith like Google Search with 7+ distinct product areas with tenuous…

Design

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Scaling team rituals to grow with design teams
Scaling team rituals to grow with design teams
Design

11 min read

Jared Zimmerman

Jared Zimmerman

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Design Leader · Photographer · RISD Alumni · jaredzimmerman.com

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