A strategic design leader
with heart, vision and a
relentless commitment to impact.
A strategic design leader
with heart, vision and a
relentless commitment to impact.
For over 10 years, I’ve been building and leading strategic design teams to create impactful digital experiences in the worlds of sports, fashion, finance and entertainment.
My work merges experience design, user research, design thinking, product strategy and emerging technology to architect and deliver products that supercharge growth for brands and businesses.
But it takes great teams to design and launch great things, and often it’s the soft skills that make magic happen. As a strategic leader, I take pride in my responsibility to mentor and create structure for teams to do great work, as well as my ability to build cross-team consensus and effectively communicate and align with business leaders at every level.
Exploring how to use AI to accelerate product research. Big thanks to the brilliant folks at Fantasy for including us in this project.
Yes to goals, and yes to OKRs, but there’s nothing like progress to fuel team growth.
Greg McKeown’s Essentialism - Helping reframe my relationship to work
50 Milliseconds - The time takes for a website to make a first impression
Fabricio Teixeira’s State of UX 2024 - It’s a business, man
Steve Reich - Blissy sounds to help the good ideas flow
James Blake - Feels like touchdown on a rainy day
colesletten@gmail.com
colesletten@gmail.com
Deep dive into the implications of AI with friends from the American Museum of Natural History, CorralData, Baruch College and Ready Set Rocket.