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Catt's Corner: design leadership conversations with senior, staff, and principal designers

by Catt Small

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

August 25, 2026 · 21 min

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…
Walking Away From Design, with Yoko Sakao Ohama

August 18, 2026 · 38 min

The first person featured in The Staff Designer woke up one day and completely left design. Yoko Sakao Ohama, former Staff Product Designer at Etsy, has now started a completely different career in accounting and financial services. Catt…
What Comes After Staff, with Tom Takigayama

August 11, 2026 · 41 min

Tom Takigayama has been at Justworks for over ten years. In that time he went from senior designer to staff to head of design to IC again and eventually to principal, a path that almost nobody takes because almost nobody sticks around long…
Build Influence as a Senior Designer, with Sara Kremer

August 4, 2026 · 35 min

Ever wondered why doing great work still isn't getting you that promo? This episode's for you! Catt sits down with Sara Kremer, a leadership coach and former design leader who hired Catt into her first staff designer role at Asana back in…
When You Have to Let Go to Make More Impact, with Jen Pearce

July 28, 2026 · 35 min

This one's for anyone who's ever pitched something five times before it landed, or wondered which things are actually worth catching when you can't catch everything. Catt sits down with Jen Pearce, a staff designer at Mercury who Catt met…

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How to Actually Ship Big Ideas, with Edwin Morris

July 21, 2026 · 34 min

This one's for anyone who's ever wondered what it actually takes to get a self-initiated idea across the finish line. Catt catches up with Edwin Morris — a designer she met on a New York City design community panel back in 2023 — to hear…
Protect Your Energy at Scale, with Theresa Slate

July 14, 2026 · 47 min

Catt reconnects with Theresa Slate, a fellow Staff Designer. Theresa has spent the last two years fighting her way out of playing double duty as both staff designer and de facto design manager. She's finally built an operating model that…
Find Your Staff Designer Archetype, with Jessica Harllee

July 7, 2026 · 45 min

Catt reunites with her former Etsy colleague and longtime mentor Jessica Harlee - the designer who helped inspire the book in the first place. Jess gets into what it actually looked like to switch teams internally at Shopify after…
What It Actually Means to Add Value as a Staff Designer, with Meghan Logan

June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

Catt sits down with Meghan Logan — whose viral product design interview playbook started their whole friendship — to catch up on what's changed since the book came out. Meghan gets real about untangling her self-worth from her design work…
I'm starting something new!

June 24, 2026 · 4 min

Catt's Corner is a podcast that builds on my Rosenfeld Media book, “The Staff Designer”. When I wrote the book, I interviewed a ton of incredible staff and principal designers. I also got feedback from many design thinkers. Some of the…

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About the show

Catt's Corner is a podcast for senior and staff designers who are figuring out what this role actually requires, and what comes next. In each episode, Catt Small sits down with a super-senior designer (or a person in their support network) and asks them to get real about what they're navigating: influence without authority, shipping big ideas, protecting their energy, making the business case for design, and adapting to a field that keeps shifting under all of us. The conversations build on Catt's book, The Staff Designer (published Rosenfeld Media), but go further. You'll get to catch up with practitioners on where they are now, what's changed, and how they're thinking about the role of hands-on IC design leadership in real time.