Leonardo De La Rocha (@delarocha) 's Twitter Profile
Leonardo De La Rocha

@delarocha

Engineer turned pixel pusher turned design exec. Design leadership @spotify. Formerly @intuit. @facebook, @yahoo

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Scaling teams with Self Awareness and Industry Experience delarocha.substack.com/p/scaling-team… #leadership #designLeadership #selfawareness

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A strong product development process can help cross-functional teams remain highly autonomous through high alignment. Here's a glimpse at how the Spotify Advertising R&D team redesigned its ways of working to get us on those rails. delarocha.substack.com/p/phase-gates-…

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Phase Gates for High Alignment and High Autonomy - Fine-tuning Spotify Advertising's R&D product development process link.medium.com/6IqMjOKbpqb

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I've been mentoring talents from all over the world 🌎 Big thanks to ADPList for making impact possible ❤️ adplist.org/mentors/leonar…

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"Research isn't a job title: it's an activity. Instead of trying to hole ourselves up in our ivory tower and build walls around the garden of Research, what if we see ourselves as the ones that facilitate that process?" — Brad Orego (they/them) medium.com/auth0-design/w…

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Building a connected team before bringing your disparate products together can help create a lasting culture of compromise and collaboration that accelerates innovation post-convergence. delarocha.substack.com/p/the-value-of…

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Had a great session with I-Chun Chou on ADPList today! It was amazing and mentorship is always rewarding - love this community! Can’t wait to chat with more people. Join the network with me: adplist.org/members/i-chun…

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In the latest 3x3, we asked three Spotify Design leaders to answer this question in three sentences👇: What skills have helped you lead a design team successfully?"❓ For Leonardo De La Rocha, it's all about data fluency. Read why: spoti.fi/Leadership ✨

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As design elements are created, they are often named after real-world metaphors. Over time those real-world metaphorical connections get lost. Megan Ng has taken the time to document the metaphors from common UI components. uxdesign.cc/why-do-we-call…