Catt's Corner: design leadership conversations with senior, staff, and principal designers

Catt Small
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Catt's Corner is a podcast for senior and staff designers who are figuring out what this role actually requires, and what comes next. In each episode, Catt Small sits down with a super-senior designer (or a person in their support network) and asks them to get real about what they're navigating: influence without authority, shipping big ideas, protecting their energy, making the business case for design, and adapting to a field that keeps shifting under all of us. The conversations build on Catt's book, The Staff Designer (published Rosenfeld Media), but go further. You'll get to catch up with practitioners on where they are now, what's changed, and how they're thinking about the role of hands-on IC design leadership in real time.

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  1. Season 1 Trailer

    I'm starting something new!

    Catt's Corner is a podcast that builds on my Rosenfeld Media book, “The Staff Designer”. When I wrote the book, I interviewed a ton of incredible staff and principal designers. I also got feedback from many design thinkers. Some of the conversations and feedback made it into the manuscript. A lot didn't. So I wanted to expand on the topic! I chose a few people to start with, went back to them, and asked: where are you now? What's changed? How are you actually adapting to a design landscape that feels like it's shifting under all of us in real time? Over the next two months I'm releasing eight episodes. The episodes connect to each major arc of the book. We're talking about what it means to be a staff designer right now, finding your archetype, protecting your energy at scale, shipping big ideas without losing momentum, building influence without a title, making the business case for design, what comes after staff... and a special closing episode about what it looks like to leave design. A quick moment of vulnerability: this is my first full podcast. I’ve done shorts here and there, but this is different! I'm learning a lot as I go. The conversations are the whole point, though, and I believe you'll love (and learn from) what you hear. I'm speaking at Config this week, and every guest answered one extra question for me: how they're adapting to AI right now. I'll be quoting a few of them in my talk on Thursday, so be sure to come through for that! A new episode will drop every Wednesday until August 19. Subscribe so you don’t miss it! — Grab your copy of The Staff Designer - https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-staff-designer/ Join the next cohort of the Staff Designer course on Maven - https://maven.com/catt-small/staff-designer

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Catt's Corner is a podcast for senior and staff designers who are figuring out what this role actually requires, and what comes next. In each episode, Catt Small sits down with a super-senior designer (or a person in their support network) and asks them to get real about what they're navigating: influence without authority, shipping big ideas, protecting their energy, making the business case for design, and adapting to a field that keeps shifting under all of us. The conversations build on Catt's book, The Staff Designer (published Rosenfeld Media), but go further. You'll get to catch up with practitioners on where they are now, what's changed, and how they're thinking about the role of hands-on IC design leadership in real time.

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