Noah Levin
Noah Levin — Product Design Director at Figma. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.
Product Design Director
Noah Levin is the Product Design Director at Figma, overseeing the product design and ux writing functions (30+ people now). His job includes a lot of things, but primarily he’s responsible for attracting and retain talented designers, setting and share context, providing actionable feedback, creating a healthy environment for design, and helping other design teams do the same. He truly believes design is best done collaboratively and in the open, and believes Figma is a great way to facilitate that.
Before Figma he led the design team at ClassPass in NYC, and the iOS Search team at Google in Mountain View. He also spent some time teaching designers to code as an advisor at Framer, and building a digital assistant for Astronauts at NASA. He studied Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon and is a Pittsburgh native who’s convinced it’s the most underrated city in the world.
Past talks
3 talks · 1 event
Implementing Change in Ways of Working
Learning about the latest and greatest techniques are great. But what really matters is how you get those changes implemented in your companies. This panel will discuss the main tactics for demonstrating the value of process improvements as well as tips on how to get buy-in at both a senior stakeholder level as well as within the product development teams.
Balancing Business, User and Product Priorities
A lot of organisations are business centric - focusing on profit and revenue. But that isn't how customers think - they care about the jobs they are trying to do and the problems they are facing. In this panel, we will discuss the techniques people use to balance different needs and demands of stakeholders at all levels of product development.
The Role of the Product Manager
The role of the Product Manager is different in almost every organisation. How are teams structured? Is there one Product Manager per development team or does a Product Manager set the objectives for many teams? If you have hundreds of product managers do you have hundreds of product visions? How do Product Managers ensure that work isn't being duplicated across the organisation? Is it mostly project management? If you are having issues defining the remit of the Product Manager role, or you just want to hear how others are doing it, this is a forum not to be missed. /