55: 10,000 Steps to Building a Great Product

12/04/18 • 44 min

Special guest Tim Roberts joins the show. As the first product person at Fitbit, he saw the company as it grew through it’s IPO and beyond. We talk about scaling teams and managing growth.

Guest Starring:

Tim Roberts

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Special guest Tim Roberts joins the show. As the first product person at Fitbit, he saw the company as it grew through it’s IPO and beyond. We talk about scaling teams and managing growth.

Guest Starring:

Tim Roberts

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54: Don’t Design Alone: Cultivating Communities of Practice

Agile consultant and coach Emily Webber joins the program to discuss ways in which people can get better at their work by tapping into (or building) support networks around them.

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Emily Webber

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56: How to Present Your Work

Special guest and founder of Mule Design, Mike Monteiro, joins the show. We discuss why presenting your work is such a crucial skill, and how so many designers get it wrong.

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Mike Monteiro

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