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June 18, 2020 | Designer Fund

Office Hours for Black & Underrepresented Founders

We're hosting office hours for founders and pre-founders from Black and historically underrepresented minority backgrounds in tech. If you're interested in pitch, product or design guidance with one of our advisors, read on.

June 8, 2020 | Designer Fund

Building a More Inclusive Design + Venture Ecosystem

April 29, 2020 | Designer Fund

Design for Business Impact featuring Dropbox & Pinterest

April 15, 2020 | Designer Fund

Announcing Primer: Create a Space You Love

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

An interview with Northstar Co-Founder and CEO, Will Peng, on democratizing access to financial advisors.

January 28, 2020 | Enrique Allen

20 Levers for Communicating the Business Impact of Design

Learn how to use our framework, The 20 Levers for Return on Design, to better articulate how your team’s designs make and save money for the business. 

December 16, 2019 | Patrick Weiss

Taking the “I” Out of Design

Patrick Weiss, Director of Product Design at Omada Health outlines tips for building products for people very different from you.

Resources

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Resources

For Founders

Design for Business Impact Case Study Library

For Founders

The Future of Design Entrepreneurship

Women in Design

10 Design Leaders on How to Empower Women in the Workplace

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Design Management & Leadership

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

Culture

Shaping Design Culture

Craft

3 Tips for Designing Behavior Change

Career Guidance

A Designer’s Guide to Working in Tech

Career Guidance

The Right Way to Accept a Job Offer