Catt Small
Catt's Corner: design leadership conversations with senior, staff, and principal designers
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...
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Episodes
Find Your Staff Designer Archetype, with Jessica Harllee 07.07.2026 44:31
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 realizing growth design wasn't the right fit, how she's leaned into her architect archetype at a company that lives and breathes systems thinking, and why building genui...
What It Actually Means to Add Value as a Staff Designer, with Meghan Logan 30.06.2026 1:07:11
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, what it actually looks like when a staff designer is adding value versus performing the appearance of it, how she adapts her process in a new role at Stripe, an...
I'm starting something new! 24.06.2026 3:41
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 conversations and feedback made it into the manuscript. A lot didn't. So I wanted to expand on the topic! I chose a few people to start with, went back to them, and...
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