Lessons from Wise redesign, and genius strategies to design products | Cameron Worboys (Design Director at Wise)

👋 Hello! Welcome to this week’s 🔒 subscriber only 🔒 View From The Top: Design, Product & AI, a weekly podcast column. Each Tuesday, we tackle design, building products, and accelerating careers. We’re looking for sponsors. If you’re interested to support our newsletter to advertise, let’s chat here.

---

In the third episode of View from the Top, we talk to Cameron Worboys, Design Director at Wise. Cameron has a wealth of experience in designing for agencies, startups, and big tech, and has recently led a design system revamp at Wise.

Tune in as we discuss Cameron's insights and learnings on:

• Cameron's background and journey to becoming a Design Director at Wise

• Design system revamp at Wise & advice for companies going through a redesign

• Fostering an innovative culture & hiring great talent

• Most commonly overlooked skill in today's design industry.

• Habits that contributed to Cameron's success

A breakdown of today’s podcast episode:

(00:00) Introduction and Cameron’s background

(4:19) Designing at agencies vs startups vs big tech

(5:46) Recent design system revamp at Wise & learnings

(14:10) Importance of attention to detail & when companies should think about rebranding/redesign

(18:03) Advice for companies looking to work with agencies

(21:57) What sets Wise apart from its competitors

(23:55) Fostering an innovative culture and hiring great talent

(32:53) Cameron’s leadership principles and collaboration style

(35:29) Most commonly overlooked skill in today’s design industry

(39:37) Habits that contributed toward Camerons’ success

(44:53) Closing thoughts and remarks

(47:05) Bonus: Camerons’ favorite song!

Where to find the speakers:

👋 Connect with Cameron: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronworboys/

👋 Connect with Felix: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixleezd/

A Supaquick Podcast Q&A:

Thanks for listening to the View from the Top podcast! We would love to hear your feedback so we can continue to improve the show. Please fill out the following form and let us know your thoughts:

1. What was your favorite part of this episode?

2. Is there a specific topic you would like us to cover in future episodes?

3. How would you rate the quality of the audio and production of this podcast?

4. Do you have any suggestions for guests or topics we should feature in future episodes?

5. On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this podcast to a friend or colleague?

We appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing from you 🙏.