Service Design Show

Once you start working as a service designer you'll quickly realise that climbing up the corporate ladder isn't the typical career path. Usually there is no "up the ladder" for service designers... So how do you make sure you don't get stuck in your career after a few years. The guest in this episode, Angela Yeh, has 20 years of experience helping designers to navigate their career. She works in the super interesting chasm between employers and design talent. In this episode Angela shares why a lot of designers struggle to communicate the unique skills they bring to employers. And as a result of this don't get the opportunity to show what they are capable of. Angela has a few helpful tips on what you can do to explain the value you create even when an employer doesn't know a lot about design. We also talk about the conditions which are needed for designers to thrive. And how to handle situations where these conditions are not (yet) in place. As Angela says it's not so much about the maturity stage of desi