Design advocacy at Google with Yasmine Evjen
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 Published On Nov 3, 2022

What does it mean to be a design advocate? You may have moments in your career where you find yourself having to advocate for design internally. What does good and successful design advocacy look like and how does it work at Google?

My community livestream replay with Yasmine Evjen (who leads design-focused Developer Relations teams at Google) is uploaded to Youtube! We chat all about design advocacy at Google!
Enjoy! ⚡️

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You can find out more about Yasmine here: https://yasmineevjen.com/
Yasmine's Twitter:   / yasmineevjen  
Yasmine's project Centered: http://yt.be/centered

//TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Overview
01:23 - Intro to livestream
02:00 - Yasmine’s journey
03:23 - Managing designers at Google
05:17 - How does Yasmine’s job look like day-to-day
08:53 - How to build empathy toward your users
11:03 - Ratio between ICs and managers within the design and development advocacy team
12:23 - What makes a good design advocate
15:41 - What’s the collaboration between design advocates and decision-makers
20:46 - How does storytelling improve Femke’s day-to-day job
22:16 - Where does design & developer advocacy fit in a small company compared to a large company?
26:06 - Advice for designers on how to get buy-in for design advocacy
29:50 - What’s the story behind Yasmine’s project Centered
34:05 - Yasmine’s favourite episode of Centered
36:13 - What role does design advocacy play in developer relations
41:24 - Tips for bringing design advocacy to your company; how to measure success
45:36 - Roles that require both design and developer skills
48:40 - How can a UX designer move into a UX Engineer role
50:35 - How to get better at storytelling
52:31 - Outro

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