How I manage teams

When I was a Design Lead at Paystack, I managed two product designers and oversaw our team’s output.

I created a workspace in Notion to organise our team’s workflow and provide visibility for anyone in the company to see our progress.

Each project was assigned to a product designer and moved through our product development stages.

In addition to receiving project briefs from product managers, we generated our own ideas to be the seeds of future projects.

We posted ‘updates’ for the projects we were working on to keep everyone informed continuously and asynchronously.

We also posted our ‘next steps’ for our projects so anyone could always see the progress of a project and identify any roadblocks.

The ‘updates’ and ‘next steps’ were built from the same database using filters so you could quickly change a ‘next step’ to an ‘update’ by changing its type.

To speed up onboarding new team members, I created documentation on how we communicated and who to speak to for specific projects.

To get to know each other better, we made a profile page for each team member.

My team showed their appreciation for our workflow and workspace.