Presented at: * 'The New Designer' Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2017 * The Hacking UI Meetup in San Francisco August 2016 When I was told I needed to start building a design team - I didn't know what to do. I never managed before. So I looked for a shortcut, some way for me to create an accelerated learning for managing designers. I decided I will interview the top design managers in the world, and learn from their experience. That became the first season of the Hacking UI Podcast (http://hackingui.com/podcast). Almost two years of experience managing designers, 9 interviews, and one professional panel later, I am here to tell you all about the insights, lessons learned, and methodologies that I successfully implemented into my way of thinking and managing. From interviewing the world's top design managers for the Hacking UI Podcast. (http://hackingui.com/podcast) These insights are from our talks with the following design leaders: - Billy Kiely - VP Product at Invision - Melissa Hajj - Design Manager at Facebook - Emmet Connolly - Director of Design at Intercom - Joel Califa - Design Manager at Digital Ocean - Magera Moon - Design Manager at Etsy - Bob Baxley - Former Director of Design at Apple, (was also at Pinterest and Yahoo) - Katie Dill - Director of Experience Design at Airbnb - Jon Lax - Director of Product Design at Facebook - and more.. Heads up: Most of them are common sense - but they are way harder to actually practice and implement into your habits.