This document outlines the various responsibilities of a UX lead, including design and creative work, hands-on project work, design reviews, ensuring a strong design process, team management tasks like stand-ups and reviews, hiring and firing, prioritizing work, stakeholder management, and balancing organizational duties with creative freedom. The ideal UX lead exhibits both leadership and teamwork, focusing on people management, coaching, conflict resolution, and communication over more aggressive styles.

1. How to lead UX
and enjoy it
Zhivko Dimitrov

3. Organisational Work
Team Management
Design / Creative work

4. Design / Creative work
Hands-on Project Work
Creative Review/Critique
Design process & methodology

5. T
b r e a d t h
depth

6. vsDesign Architecture Random small tasks

7. Innovation
Communication
Actual Design Skills

8. Team management
Coaching, career development
Daily stand-ups, weekly reviews, team meetings
Hiring / firing / onboarding / HR

9. Design? Management?

10. Be pushy
Conflict resolution
outside the team
Aggressive leadership
Team play
Cooperate
Initiative/leadership
within the team

11. Organisational work
Prioritisation / Project Management
Design Evangelisation
Stakeholder management / reporting

12. vs
Creative Freedom
Business Value
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13. Organisational Work
Team Management
Design / Creative work