First Designer In From Just Hired to Minimum Viable Design Team in Five Weeks

First Designer In is like if you speed up The First 90 Days to triple-time and mix in the efficiencies of User Experience Team of One. Doing so will allow you to lay the foundations needed to tackle the work in Org Design for Design Orgs and LiftOff!
Written in an approachable voice, First Designer In will arm you with the tools needed to thrive as a startup's first design hire.
Why This Book
There are a bazillion books, courses and resources available on the design craft, on being a solo practitioner, and on design leadership. Yet there's hardly any support specifically for founding designers. This vital guide will prepare you for the harsh (but fabulous!) reality of being the first design hire tasked with creating the design function within the company.
As the first UX design hire at a startup, you're flying solo... but you don't want to stay solo forever. You need to set expectations on what a UX team does, and make clear how you will lead its growth within the company.
Who Needs this Book
UX & Product Designers- If you've landed a gig as a solo UX designer, or will soon, and have the sinking feeling there's more to it than you realized, this book is definitely for you. Help is on the way!
Startup Founders- If you're making the first design hire, the section on org design, assessing design skills, and hiring a team will be really useful - plus understand what that new hire will be doing.
Startup Investors- If you've got a portfolio of early-stage companies struggling to hire their first designer, this book is for them (probably not you).
What's In It
First Designer In is broken down into three sections, plus an addendum:
1- Making Space For Design: Setting Design up for healthy successMinimum Viable Design TeamTwo types of UX design teamsSix design skills of a generalistDesign business metricsDesign's place in the companyDrafting a master plan
2- The First Five Weeks: An action packed plan to get on-boardedAudit of the current stateIdentify the real stakeholdersSet fundamental expectationsTake benchmark measurementsSet up proto-personasDeliver. Deliver. Deliver.
3- Looking Forward: Focus on bootstrapping Design Ops into existenceSeed a design systemGetting a components library builtSeed research operationsMeasure design org maturityPrepare yourself to hire a team
Bonus- Swipe Files & Resources: Downloadable files, free forever for folks who've purchased the bookThe Action Plan (Summary)Readiness (Checklist)Design Skill Levels Matrix (Spreadsheet)Research Projects vs. User Studies (Swipe File)Reading list of all the books and articles cited (Link List)
Expert InterviewsThroughout the book, author Tara Kelly brings in expertise from various parts of the startup ecosystem to address hot topics such as the future of design systems, the business of design, the nitty-gritty of hiring, and on mentorship and community.


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