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I mentioned a couple of weeks ago my belief that observation-driven performance management processes do designers a particular type of disservice in typical tech organisations. I also mentioned that I had a developing thought on what a good alternative might be. Today I’m going to expand on that a

1. 🚩 Homework, Spec work, whiteboard tasks, etc. - This has been spoken about endlessly so I won’t go on too much about it, but suffice it to say if the only way a hiring process can establish the qualifications of a designer is to get them to sit down

I chatted to André Morys on the GMS Podcast a couple of weeks ago about my time working at Booking.com and Deliveroo in advance of speaking at the GMS conference in Frankfurt next year. I spoke about the intersection of design leadership and Experimentation from a cultural and operational

I’ve long held a belief that observation-driven performance reviews do a disproportionate dis-service to designers. The model of managerial assessment, multi-disciplinary calibration and stack ranking performed at departmental levels lead invariably to worse outcomes for designers than they do for other disciplines because we are outnumbered by people who

Outpost is the design consultancy of Stuart Frisby, a design leader with twenty years experience in the tech industry and designer of many of the apps, websites and services you use on a daily basis. Outpost offers a variety of services for organisations and individuals, all of which leverage Stuart’

I spoke to CR about my work at Deliveroo in leveraging good design in an industry where there is so little of it.