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Founding Design Practice

Building the smallest design practice an early organization actually needs.

What is Founding Design Practice?

Building the smallest design practice an early organization actually needs.

What you learn

As the first designer, build habits that improve future decisions.

When it helps

you’re the first designer, or everything seems to need design at once.

Use it at work

  1. List the decisions that most need design input.
  2. Start one habit that improves many decisions at once.
  3. Share simple tools others can use without you.
  4. Add process only when a real problem calls for it.

Your output

Pick one design habit, like a weekly customer session, that would improve the next ten decisions. Start it this week.

Watch for

Trying to design everything yourself, or building heavy process too early.

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