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April 2, 2020 | Designer Fund

Recommended Books from LA Design Leaders

Earlier this year, Designer Fund and Fika Ventures co-hosted a dinner with LA design leaders from companies like Snap, Headspace, Bird, and Airbnb to share perspectives across different company stages and explore ways to support the broader LA design community. We asked each leader to recommend a book that was recently useful to them and hope that this wisdom can help inspire growth in your career in light of the challenges related to COVID19.

March 6, 2020 | Designer Fund

Announcing Northstar: Automating Personal Finance

January 28, 2020 | Enrique Allen

20 Levers for Communicating the Business Impact of Design

December 16, 2019 | Patrick Weiss

Taking the “I” Out of Design

December 6, 2019 | Designer Fund

Recommended reading from design leaders

Earlier this year as part of our Design for Business Impact event series, we hosted a dinner with design leaders and asked them each to recommend a book. Here are their recommendations.

September 10, 2019 | Ben Blumenrose

Announcing Flatfile: AI-powered data importing

How Flatfile will use design to make data importing fast, accurate, and usable.

May 22, 2019 | Ben Blumenrose

Designer Fund raises $23.5M Fund II to fix the design gap in tech

With $43.5M in total funds under management, our mission is to invest in exceptional founders and empower them with design to improve the world.

February 20, 2019 | Designer Fund

Design for Business Impact in SF, NYC and more

We’re excited to bring our “Design for Business Impact” event series on the road to multiple cities across the US with live streaming for anyone who wants tune in remotely. Our first event of this year will be in San Francisco at Dropbox HQ on March 13th, followed by New York City on May 2nd. Read more…

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Resources

For Founders

Design for Business Impact Case Study Library

For Founders

The Future of Design Entrepreneurship

Design Management & Leadership

Level Up: A Framework for Growing High-Performing Design Teams

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Career Guidance

The Right Way to Accept a Job Offer

Culture

Shaping Design Culture

Women in Design

10 Design Leaders on How to Empower Women in the Workplace

Career Guidance

A Designer’s Guide to Working in Tech

Craft

3 Tips for Designing Behavior Change