Transitioning from Design Manager to IC Designer Design MBA

My guest today is Maheen Sohail who recently switched from Design Manager to Senior Designer role at Meta.

In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Interview trailer
- Who is Maheen Sohail (Senior Designer at Meta)?
- How to deal with layoffs as a designer?
- What does a Design Manager do when her entire team gets shut down?
- How does a Design Manager say goodbye to their team when it's time to leave the company?
- How does a Design Manager not lose touch with their craft?
- How to manage senior designers as a first time Design Manager?
- Why should a designer consider becoming a Design Manager?
- How does becoming a Design Manager make you more empathetic?
- How does a Design Manager resolve conflict between designer and engineer?
- Why is becoming a Design Manager so hard?
- Should a Design Manager share frequent updates about their work with the team?
- Is switching from Design Manager to IC seamless?
- Switching frequenty between management and IC roles as a designer
- Do Design Managers need to be design tool experts?
- Why designers should not become managers early in their career?
- Designers sharing their favorite Bollywood movies 

Interview Video: https://youtu.be/LXPKGTGvFrY?si=6pVqr9zENQkYso2Y

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