Leading a Biweekly Forum for Team Ideas

Biweekly design speaker series for team learning

DoGooder was a biweekly speaker series I ran at Havas to keep the team sharp and connected to new ideas. Each session featured two team members presenting recent work, techniques, or quick tutorials. I recorded the talks, added a simple bumper, and published them on an internal page so the wider team could reference them later. It gave quieter designers space to contribute and strengthened the studio’s learning culture.

Examples of conversations

• New Figma features that speed up design system building and maintenance

• One team member’s video strategy and content programs from prior roles, what translated well and what didn’t

• New Jira features and how we adapted them for design workflows

• Updates to our handoff process to development, including specs, edge cases, and QA expectations

• Design system governance, what gets added, what gets killed, and who owns decisions

• Accessibility checks designers can realistically run themselves before formal QA

Key takeaway: These sessions helped the team learn from each other, build confidence, and improve craft through simple, practical demos. They also show how I can bring the same mentoring structure and learning culture into future teams.