Building Great Design Teams

Want to make great products? You will have to build a great team first. In this talk from beyond tellerrand 2015, Aarron Walter, director of user experience at MailChimp and author of Designing for Emotion, shares what he has learned from nearly a decade of leading design teams there.

Great teams combine complementary skills but, more importantly, complementary personalities. Savvy leaders pick the right mix knowing the group is stronger together than apart, and once the team is assembled, the work of orchestrating those diverse skills begins. Aarron covers the skill seeking, personality assessment and forward planning that are part of building a strong design team, an art that is not easily mastered.