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Andy Budd

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Are We All Just Figma Operators Now?

As thousands of designers settled into a cavernous event space on the outskirts of London — laptop bags slung over shoulders, Stanley cups…

13h ago

Are We All Just Figma Operators Now?

13h ago

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The Design VC

The Need for Speed: How Startups Can Improve Product Velocity

For most startup founders, product velocity — the speed and consistency with which your team ships meaningful updates — is an obsession…

5d ago

The Need for Speed: How Startups Can Improve Product Velocity

5d ago

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The Design Coach

What Design Teams Can Learn from Air Traffic Control

When pilots call up air traffic control (ATC), they don’t just announce their presence-they request a specific level of service based on…

Apr 30

What Design Teams Can Learn from Air Traffic Control

Apr 30

When Everything is on Fire, Founders Sometimes Struggle to See the Wood for the Trees

In 1949, a crew of elite smoke-jumpers parachuted into Montana’s Mann Gulch to fight what looked like a routine wildfire. But within hours…

Apr 25

When Everything is on Fire, Founders Sometimes Struggle to See the Wood for the Trees

Apr 25

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The Design VC

The Founder’s Vision Trap: Why Culture Beats Tech Every Time

It starts, as these stories often do, with a bold vision.

Apr 24

The Founder’s Vision Trap: Why Culture Beats Tech Every Time

Apr 24

Hacking Your Product Requirement Documents to Encourage Better Design

Most product requirement documents (PRDs) are boring, transactional, and — let’s be honest — kind of useless. They tend to be a simple…

Apr 24

Hacking Your Product Requirement Documents to Encourage Better Design

Apr 24

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The Design VC

Seven Things First-Time Founders Almost Always Get Wrong (And That’s O.K.)

Starting a company is a crash course in humility. You’re juggling 100 decisions a day, half of which you’ve never faced before. You’re…

Apr 23

Seven Things First-Time Founders Almost Always Get Wrong (And That’s O.K.)

Apr 23

“I’m Just Being Helpful” — How Designers Accidentally Come Across as Disagreeable (and What to Do…

A lot of designers, especially those with a strong systems-thinking mindset, pride themselves on being rigorous problem-solvers. We…

Apr 23

“I’m Just Being Helpful” — How Designers Accidentally Come Across as Disagreeable (and What to Do…

Apr 23

Why VCs Say No: The Real Reasons Behind the Rejections

When a VC passes on your startup, it often feels personal. But in reality, most rejections come down to patterns they’ve seen before. Sure…

Apr 17

Why VCs Say No: The Real Reasons Behind the Rejections

Apr 17

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The Design Coach

Transitioning to Design Management is Hard, Risky and Requires a Lot of Luck

There are three common paths into Design Management. Either you start at the bottom and work your way up, you take on a stretch project…

Apr 17

Apr 17

Andy Budd

Andy Budd

he/him

Design Founder turned investor, advisor and leadership coach. Author of The Growth Equation. @Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly @Clearleft @LDConf & @UXLondon.

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