[TMA] Leadership Masterclass Feb 25-26/ Podcast with Roger Martin
From the desk of Peter Merholz— Happy Superbowl Sunday (to all Americans at least)! I don’t really follow the NFL, so I have no real opinion about the game,...
[TMA] Quality >>> Craft | Reframe Your Mandate
This past week, I participated in the Design Leadership Summit in Toronto. It filled my head with many ideas. Here, I’ll share a couple of overarching...
[TMA] First person design leadership stories; rankings redux
From the desk of Peter Merholz— Last Friday, Hang Xu and I continued our discussion ranking design organizations. My write up for our first session shocked...
[TMA] Design Org Ranking, this Friday (Jan 17) for a good cause!
From the desk of Peter Merholz— Dropping a quick note to say that this Friday, January 17th, at 9am Pacific (12n ET, 5pm UK time), I will rejoin Hang Xu to...
[TMA] New year, same me
From the sofa of Peter Merholz— Tuning back in after a delightful and restorative end of the year break. New episode of Finding Our Way First item of...
[TMA] Empty Platitudes and a Focus on Skills, not Roles
From the sofa of Peter Merholz– This will likely be the last Merholz Agenda for the year. First though, a highly chaotic literal pie chart, which while...
[TMA] AI Will Widen the Design Chasm
From the sofa of Peter Merholz… Design, AI, and The Widening Gap between Savvy and Clueless My ~10 minute take combining the technology adoption curve (think...
[TMA] Design Leadership Themes, and upcoming event
I spent this past week in London, England, attending the the “Design Leaders+” conference and teaching my Design Leadership Fundamentals masterclass. On...
[TMA] Design maturity and the laziness of 'best practices'
From the sofa of Peter Merholz— We start with Andy Budd’s understandable frustration with “design maturity” as an objective in an of itself, instead tasking...
[TMA] Design Thinking Isn't Dead
From The Sofa of Peter Merholz— This past week, I spoke at Re:Imagine Retail, an “immersive experience creation” event internal to Sam’s Club. The...
"Design" is too damn big, and my most-cited
From the sofa of Peter Merholz— “Design” is too damn big Many, perhaps most, designers and design leaders are experiencing some kind of struggle, and as I...
Toward a new org design for UX and PM
30 to 50, but it’s not feral hogs On the latest Finding Our Way, Jesse and I talk to product development interrogator John Cutler, in what proved to be...
'What's Next' for Design Leaders
A theme for my work for the back half of this year is “what’s next” for design leaders. It started with podcast episode The Phase Shift, where Jesse and I...
Welcome to The Merholz Agenda
I’m excited to present the first issue of The Merholz Agenda, my (semi-)weekly newsletter where I share my perspective on matters of UX/Design leadership and...