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310: Work, Culture, and Experimentation at a Product Design Agency (feat. Skyler Balbus)

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In today's episode we catch up with Skyler Balbus, the Director of Product Design at Postlight. We dig into what it means to build products within the agency model, the decision to move from working in-house to working with clients, and how to build a culture where designers can experiment freely. Skyler also shares her ideas for how to build a strong design culture within an agency, tips for junior designers in the hiring process, and ways to build effective feedback loops within an organization. This, plus our weekly followup, news, and cool things! Follow-up: We're trying a new experiment: ask your questions for us on GitHub by opening a new issue. These issues will allow us to reply directly, keep a public backlog, and let the questions and answers be more readily searchable on Google! You can create a GitHub account for free, in just a few minutes, in case you want to make a fake account for an anonymous question. News: Brian made a Figma plugin, Responsify, to quickly test your designs across mu