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Daniel is a design partner at GV, Google’s venture capital arm.
We have a somewhat unusual design team at GV. There are six of us. Four product designers, a researcher, and a team coordinator. Each of us held fairly senior design positions previously and we each have a…
At Google Ventures, we help our portfolio companies hire top-notch design talent. We’ve helped our portfolio companies hire more than 30 full-time designers in the past two years, so we know a thing or two about how to attract talent…
A few weeks ago I had coffee with an experienced product designer. Let’s call him Carl. He’d been working at a respected San Francisco startup for five years, but he was getting restless. Carl had excellent experience and skills. (Heck, the guy was even a decent coder.)
Designers can be tempted to cut corners to get the job done. As a CEO, product manager, or engineer who works with designers, watch for these short-term strategies and encourage designers to raise their game. Great designers don’t need the dark arts to succeed.
