About this episode
Mig Reyes is the VP of Product Experience at Duolingo (and a design director at Instagram before that).
In this episode he shared a behind-the-scenes of how design operates at Duolingo (as well as some harsh truths designers need to hear).
- Common portfolio review mistakes
- How communication skills build influence
- Mig’s strategy behind hiring junior designers
- How to succeed in executive product reviews
- Mig’s mandate to raise the design bar at Duolingo
- How Mig revamped design management at Duolingo
- Why Duolingo changed from “UX” to “Product Experience”
- a lot more
- Jacob Nielsen (commented on LinkedIn post)
- Brett Westervelt (VP of Design at Instagram)
- Ryan Sims (Chief Design Officer at Duolingo)
- Luis (CEO of Duolingo)
- Companies mentioned: Instagram, Airbnb, Coinbase, Meta, OpenAI, Figma
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