# Catt Small

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The Staff Designer with Catt Small

What if your next big career move didn’t involve managing people—but managing impact? Catt Small joins Lou to unpack the rise of the staff designer: a role that's redefining what senior-level growth can look like for designers who want to lead without becoming managers. Catt shares insights from h…

Craft, Vision, and Influence: The Staff Designer’s Playbook with Catt Small

If you’ve ever wondered why you’re still “senior” after years of great work, this episode is for you. Catt Small joins me to unpack what it actually takes to step into a staff designer role—the skills, mindset shifts, and invisible work no one tells you about. You’ve nailed the craft, shipped grea…

How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

Episode web page: https://bit.ly/4tH0nSl Leading without the title: The real power of the staff designer What does it take to grow your impact as a designer—without becoming a manager? In this episode of Insights Unlocked, host Jason Giles sits down with Catt Small, staff product designer, game …

S3 E3: On influencing without authority | Catt Small

Catt Small, Staff Product Designer, shares expert strategies on building influence without authority, managing stakeholder relationships, and navigating organisational dynamics as an individual contributor. Discover practical tips on networking, communicating effectively with leadership, and expand…

DDX NYC Recap: The Future of Design Is Not AI-First. It Is Judgment-First.

  At DDX New York, the conversation around design, product and AI moved beyond the obvious. It was not simply about whether artificial intelligence will change the way teams work. That question has already been answered. It was not about whether AI can generate, automate, summarize or accelera…

82: Config 2026

Talks discussed: Out of sync, on purpose: desktop design after mobile won The canvas is not dead ft. Catt Small (Dropbox) The invisible mechanisms in your interfaces ft. Johannes Mutter (mutter.co) Dense by design ft. Matthew Ström-Awn (mu.design) Usernames on Instagram: how a craft fix became an …

Designing Your Own Path in an Uncertain UX Landscape with Catt Small

What if uncertainty isn’t something UX professionals need to survive — but an opportunity to reshape what comes next? Catt Small and Lou explore how designers can reclaim agency at a moment when familiar roles, tools, and assumptions about the industry are shifting. Drawing on her own evolution fro…

Lessons from Catt's Corner Season 1 (and why I want to do it again!)

Season 1 of Catt's Corner is a wrap! In this bonus episode, host Catt Small reflects on how the podcast came together, shares five lessons that surfaced across all eight conversations this season, and gets transparent about what it would take to make Season 2 happen. The five lessons: understanding…

The Feed & The Thread - September 24, 2026

We argue that the real friction in design isn't the craft itself, but the business realities and power structures that dictate who pays and what gets measured. From Scott Berkun’s warning that influence matters more than style to the blind spots in quantifying human stress, we explore how hidden co…