#26 Keenan Cummings (Design Lead, Airbnb) - Finding Your Product's Level of Readiness and Manifesting Design systems

Episode : Keenan Cummings Our guest today is the inspiring Keenan Cummings, Team Leader at Airbnb and former Co-founder/Creative Director of Days (acquired by Yahoo!) and the Designers Debate Club . Keenan started his career as a designer in NYC, working in brand agencies and doing print work, where he landed what he thought would be a dream project, redesigning and rebranding the Chicago Cubs. However Keenan felt that there were bigger problems he wanted to dive in to, so he made the transition into digital design. He co-founded Days app, and then found his path into product design eventually joining Airbnb, where he led the development of their design systems and leads an extraordinary team. Today, Keenan is also working on a side project called Curiosity Club , a group for experienced creatives to learn new skills together. In this episode, Keenan shared with us why he believes that investing in design systems and investing in your team, not only pays-off, but it is a must. This is the first episode of the third season of the Hacking UI podcast, 'Scaling a Career'. In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. Design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses that we admire. Please support our amazing sponsors This episode is brought to you by Invision , an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about. The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more. Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can

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#26 Keenan Cummings (Design Lead, Airbnb) - Finding Your Product's Level of Readiness and Manifesting Design systems is an episode from The Hacking UI Podcast by Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner.

This episode is 54:20 long.

This episode was published on Jan 25, 2018.

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