Kathy Zheng - How to make the jump to staff designer

This week’s episode is with Kathy Zheng who is currently the Head of design at a Web3 protocol called Optimism. But before that she was the first designer at Patreon and went on to spend over 6 years at Github.So the goal of this conversation is to look at how Kathy grew as a designer while at Github and identify the specific milestones on her journey to reaching senior and eventually staff designer.We get into the weeds about:How the role of staff and senior designers differThe traits shared by the best designers at GithubHow to give your ideas a chance to become memesHow to avoid conversational spinout on your projectHow to identify opportunities using systems thinkingHow Kathy is growing as a design leader at OptimismSpecific techniques for storytelling and presenting ideasSome of the people mentioned in this episode:Max Schoening (former Head of design at Github)Brian Lovin (bookmarking repo project)Kat Fikui (coworker at Github whose .readme we mentioned)Connor Sears (old manager at Github)Jack Conte (Cofounder of Patreon)

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