The Ultimate Guide to Leading a Remote Design Team

Best practices for keeping your remote team happy and productive

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Earlier this week Alexis Lloyd, Head of Design Innovation at Automattic (she’s moving on to Medium, congrats!), shared on Twitter some insightful best practices for leading design teams remotely and asked others to chime in. As in, a community sharing ideas—not just complaining! Be still, my heart. I don’t know Alexis personally but her receptiveness inspires me.

I started to reply in unrolled, unthreaded, Twitter-novel form, but I realized I have had this topic in my brain for years now, and if I don’t get it out today it will be trapped inside forever with only cobwebs and dusty memories for company, and no one will know the wonderful things I learned (mostly) while working at Mozilla.

Here are the basics I’ll cover in greater depth below:

1. Designing intentional interactions, including best practices for meetings
2. Building culture and collaboration into a variety of team touch points