Chicago Camps Podcast

In this insightful session, Jesse James Garrett, a visionary in the field, delves into the intricacies of design leadership amidst the dynamic interplay between executive expectations and team aspirations. He reflects on the evolution of design leadership, the spectrum of design maturity, and provides a nuanced understanding of navigating leadership responsibilities.Balancing Needs and Expectations:Acknowledgment of design leaders as a unique bunch, learning on the job due to a lack of formal education in design leadership.The "design leadership playbook" is an amalgamation of trials, errors, successes, and failures over the last two decades.Importance of translating the value proposition of design not only to the design team but to the larger organization.Reconciling Product Success with Design Maturity:Questioning the long-term goal of design maturity and emphasizing that it should lead to greater product success visible to people outside design.Design maturity described as an asymptotic approach towards pe