Leadership Values
The most innovative teams are led by people who actively create a culture of trust where individuals feel supported and encouraged. To achieve this, I live by my values of honesty, vision, and understanding.
By the end of my time at 10up, I led a team of about a dozen user experience and content designers, working alongside a separate visual design team. We lived across the US and Europe and worked using remote collaboration tools.
Honesty
Honesty is an absolute requirement for building a high trust team. I model this by being transparent (when I can, but clearly communicating when I can’t).
“Thanks for always advocating for integrity and reason on the projects you’re on. It matters”
Melissa Vander Wilt,
Content Designer
“Such a pleasure to watch you wrangle and run a UX discovery session at CDCR! I also very much appreciate your candor and advice regarding work and all things design”
Lea Alcantra,
Design Director
Vision
Once the brainstorming has happened and the discussion is over, it’s my responsibility to ensure the team has both clarity of purpose and consensus for action.
“Very much appreciated the discussion about vision & strategy for [experience] design this week.”
Chris Wallace,
Vice President, Experience Design
“Taylor does a good job of pulling the team back to connect the dots and see how everything fits together — specifically when teams start to silo and get hyper-focused on their own deliverables.”
Anonymous Coworker
Understanding
Human-centered design hinges on the ability for design teams to understand and empathize. Building highly productive design teams requires a similar effort—everyone wants to feel understood and heard.
“Being empathetic to your employees and their needs – more often than not I feel validated when I come to [Taylor] with an issue…”
Anonymous Coworker
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Scout’s Honor by Adam Parry from the Noun Project
Mountain by Normansyah from the Noun Project
love and care by Victoruler from the Noun Project