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Accelerate your design career

RETHINK develops professional development programs for experienced Product Designers, UX Researchers or Design Managers. We work with product design leaders of the fastest growing companies to help tomorrow's design leaders unlock opportunities and extraordinary career growth.
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INTRODUCING THE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Effective methods to evolve your design leadership skills

Access the frameworks, methods, and best practices from design experts to help you advance your career as a leader either on the individual contributor or design management path.
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Organizing and communicating your design system

Reflect on the key components of organizing and communicating your design systems.

This 2-week program provides you with frameworks and principles to structure your design systems to enable consistency and better collaboration.
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Keynote
Design Your Career with Intention

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Kim Lenox
VP of Product Design, Zendesk
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Workshop
Transitioning from Product Designer to Design Manager
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Aug 11
and
Aug 18
9:30 - 12:00pm PDT
Jian Wei
Design Manager, Zendesk
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Mentorship
Storytelling to Influence Change
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Jul 28
and
Sep 2
Altay Sendil
Senior Staff Researcher, Pinterest
Kent Eisenhuth
Staff UX Designer, Data Visualization
Google
Liz Heidner
Senior Product Designer
Microsoft
Kelly Anneken
Content Design Manager
Pinterest
Alan Walker
Design Manager
Pinterest
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Workshop
Developing Confidence to Influence and Lead
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Jul 15
and
Jul 29
9:30 - 12:00PM PDT
Frank Bach
Lead Product Designer, Headspace
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Workshop
Leadership Development Program
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and
Courtney Kaplan
Leadership Coach
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Mentorship
Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
and
6-weeks
Aniruddha Kadam
UX Design Manager at Google
Leslie Yang
Sr. Design Manager
Lyft
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How to define or refine your hiring strategy
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and
Chetana Deorah
Director of Product Design, Coursera
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DESIGN CRITIQUE GUIDE

Leading Effective
Design Critiques

Insights from 200+ product designers and design managers from leading tech companies
to get expert best practices on how to lead better design critiques with your team.

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Overcoming challenges when running critiques

Ways for resolving conflicts and debates in a critique session.

Prioritizing design after a critique session

Ways on how to prioritize in which direction to take action after a critique session.

Distinction for design critiques & design reviews

Setting expectations on the differences between design critiques and design reviews.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Learn from the best design leaders

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Kyle Peatt

Director of Design

Shopify
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Garrett Miller

Head of Engineering, Design Systems

Slack
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Rich Fulcher

UX Director, Material Design

Google
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Amanda Linden

Director of Design

Facebook
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Frank Yoo

VP of Design and Research

Coinbase
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Jen Kozenski-Devins

Head of Google Accessibility UX

Google
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Yitong Zhang

Staff Product Designer

Coinbase
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Fonz Morris

Lead Product Designer

Netflix
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Ed Chao

Human Interface Designer

Apple
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Salih Abdul Karim

Motion Design Lead

Airbnb
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Karri Saarinen

Co-founder, CEO

Linear App
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Michael Chanover

VP Design

Khan Academy
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Linda Dong

Former, Design Manager

Lyft
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Julie Zhuo

Co-Founder

Inspirit
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Michelle Alvarez

Staff Product Designer

Material Design, Google
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Tina Chen

Sr. Product Design Manager

Slack
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Neek Zanfack

Product Designer, Nextdoor

Nextdoor
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Daniel Stillman

Conversation Designer

The Conversation Factory
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Chetana Deorah

Director of Product Design

Coursera
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Jeff Smith

Senior Product Design Manager

Coinbase
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Charlie Sutton

Head of Design

Facebook
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Thanks to the RETHINK events I've learned a lot of frameworks that I applied right away to deal with my own challenges in my day to day work.

Jian Wei
Design Manager, Zendesk
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Storytelling to Influence Change
July 28, 2022
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Transitioning from Product Designer to Design Manager
August 11, 2022
9:30 - 12:00pm PDT
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How to define or refine your hiring strategy
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Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively
6-weeks
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Developing Confidence to Influence and Lead
July 15, 2022
9:30 - 12:00PM PDT
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Leadership Development Program
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