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A design ops veteran shares her journey, from her path into design ops to building out the team and setting its priorities
A product manager shares his journey from creative to design to product, and lessons he learned about each role
Simon Mateljan, a veteran design leader, shares what works for him and how he scaled human insight to the entire design team
The growing embrace of empathy in business is very welcome, but don’t overthink the problem
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