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Catt's Corner: design leadership conversations with senior, staff, and principal designers

Catt's Corner: design leadership conversations with senior, staff, and principal designers

著者： Catt Small
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Catt's Corner is a podcast for senior and staff designers who are figuring out what this role actually requires, and what comes next. In each episode, Catt Small sits down with a super-senior designer (or a person in their support network) and asks them to get real about what they're navigating: influence without authority, shipping big ideas, protecting their energy, making the business case for design, and adapting to a field that keeps shifting under all of us.

The conversations build on Catt's book, The Staff Designer (published Rosenfeld Media), but go further. You'll get to catch up with practitioners on where they are now, what's changed, and how they're thinking about the role of hands-on IC design leadership in real time.

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  • Protect Your Energy at Scale, with Theresa Slate

    Protect Your Energy at Scale, with Theresa Slate
    2026/07/14

    Catt reconnects with Theresa Slate, a fellow Staff Designer. Theresa has spent the last two years fighting her way out of playing double duty as both staff designer and de facto design manager. She's finally built an operating model that actually protects her time, and has gotten to a place she describes as one of the proudest moments in her career. This episode is for designers who join every single team meeting and wonder why they can't find time for the strategic work they were hired to do.

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    ℹ️ In this episode

    • How Theresa cut 40% of her meetings
    • Why "quick wins in a trench coat" is not a design strategy
    • How to be a good collaborator without being a doormat
    • What it took to get public cross-functional praise for the design team

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    📖 Resources mentioned

    • The Staff Designer book (Rosenfeld Media): https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-staff-designer
    • The Staff Designer course on Maven: https://maven.com/catt-small/staff-designer

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    🌐 Find Theresa on the internet

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresaslate
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    47 分
  • Find Your Staff Designer Archetype, with Jessica Harllee

    Find Your Staff Designer Archetype, with Jessica Harllee
    2026/07/07

    Catt reunites with her former Etsy colleague and longtime mentor Jessica Harlee - the designer who helped inspire the book in the first place. Jess gets into what it actually looked like to switch teams internally at Shopify after realizing growth design wasn't the right fit, how she's leaned into her architect archetype at a company that lives and breathes systems thinking, and why building genuine relationships (not just networking) is the skill that keeps unlocking things for her career.

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    ℹ️ In this episode

    * What an internal team transfer process looks like

    * How to figure out your staff designer archetype

    * Why being put on a project outside your strength zone isn't a setback

    * Building relationships as an introvert: how to maintain genuine connections without it feeling transactional

    * What to do when leadership doesn't know who you are

    * How Al is shifting Jess's role

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    📖 Resources mentioned

    * The Staff Designer book (Rosenfeld Media): https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-staff-designer

    * The Staff Designer course on Maven: https://maven.com/catt-small/staff-designer

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    🌐 Find Jessica on the internet

    * Website: https://jessicaharllee.com

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    45 分
  • What It Actually Means to Add Value as a Staff Designer, with Meghan Logan

    What It Actually Means to Add Value as a Staff Designer, with Meghan Logan
    2026/06/30

    Catt sits down with Meghan Logan — whose viral product design interview playbook started their whole friendship — to catch up on what's changed since the book came out. Meghan gets real about untangling her self-worth from her design work, what it actually looks like when a staff designer is adding value versus performing the appearance of it, how she adapts her process in a new role at Stripe, and why she thinks creativity is going to matter more than ever in an AI-saturated industry.

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    ℹ️ In this episode

    • What genuine staff-level contribution looks like versus performing the role
    • How to adapt your process when you're new somewhere and still earning trust
    • Why treating stakeholders like user research participants still holds up
    • Meghan's honest take on AI for design

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    📖 Resources mentioned

    • The Staff Designer book (Rosenfeld Media): https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-staff-designer
    • The Staff Designer course on Maven: https://maven.com/catt-small/staff-designer
    • Caps Lock by Ruben Pater (Valiz): https://www.artbook.com/9789492095817.html
    • UXpilot: https://uxpilot.ai

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    🌐 Find Meghan on the internet

    • Website: https://www.meghanlogan.com
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghanelogan
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    1 時間 7 分
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