Becoming a designer founder

The mindset, skills, and experience that make you a successful user experience designer can contribute to your success as an entrepreneur. Instead of working on a project defined by someone else, what would it be like to bring your own ideas to life? Lane Goldstone shares her journey from consultant to entrepreneur and explains how having a background in design impacts Brooklyn Copper Cookware.

User experience (UX) designers add necessary perspective and skills to early-stage companies, which are often overweighted with technical and business expertise. UX designers’ aptitude for considering holistic systems, desire to understand human motivations, visual thinking superpowers, and dedication to validated learning make them valuable early hires for startups. Increasingly, designers are taking more strategic roles at early-stage companies, but founders with a background in design are still relatively rare. Topics include: